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CIPC #171: Casper the friendly ghost, Vol.2

Posted on May 20, 2020

Who is the most famous ghost in all of fiction? The obvious answer would be the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future from Dickens’…

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CIPC #170: Camel advertisement

Posted on May 12, 2020

If you were to ask me for my favourite sites, I would probably go on a tangent about how one should not assume that such…

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CIPC #169: The wire S1 E3, The buys

Posted on May 5, 2020

The wire is one of the most critically acclaimed television series in history, charting at number six in IMDB’s top list at the time of…

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CIPC #168: TheOdd1sOut, Tabletop games

Posted on April 28, 2020

This is a blog about chess in popular culture, but I feel that my subjects haven’t been very popular lately. Who watches Wing commander? Who…

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CIPC #167: Wing commander

Posted on April 21, 2020

It is received wisdom that any video game based on a movie has an good chance to blow. Hard. In the bell-end of a horn.…

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CIPC #166: Young Sherlock Holmes

Posted on April 15, 2020

After almost a hundred blog posts, Sherlock Holmes once more turns in an appearance, but this time in a younger form. Young Sherlock Holmes is…

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CIPC #165: Entr’acte

Posted on April 7, 2020

Once again we have a novelty on this blog. Not that it is anything at all recent, in fact, our subject today is from all…

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CIPC #164: Ahzee, King

Posted on March 31, 2020

After one hundred sixty three blog post, I can apparently still stumble upon something which is novel: I have never written about a DJ before.…

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CIPC #163: Friday the 13th part 2

Posted on March 24, 2020

This blog is, as the name suggests, about chess in pop culture. Last week, we talked about the culture part, today we’ll deal with the…

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CIPC #162: M. C. Escher, Metamorphose II

Posted on March 17, 2020

I assume, I guess, I hope, that Dutch artist M. C. Escher needs no introduction. His lithographs and woodcuts have penetrated the farthest corners of…

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Chess in popular culture

With this blog, I will critique chess as it appears in all sorts of popular media. I will honour the good and, probably much more frequently, castigate the bad.

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