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CIPC #64: Back to the future part III

Posted on April 17, 2018

This is going to be a huge disappointment. Just imagine: for more than a year, my fans1 have been waiting, silently fearing my blog would…

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CIPC #63: The X-files S5 E20, The end

Posted on April 10, 2018April 22, 2018

As far as I can ascertain, the X-files is more or less an adaptation of the Fortean times in which every uncanny or weirdly creepy…

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CIPC #62: Championship conflict

Posted on April 1, 2018March 30, 2018

The history of the world chess championship is filled with scandals. Delicious, delicious scandals. Some of the more famous ones are the yoghurt incident (Karpow…

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CIPC #61: The New Yorker Vol.52 No.28

Posted on March 27, 2018April 22, 2018

Among literary magazines, the New Yorker takes pride of place, counting authors like Roald Dahl, Haruki Murakami, and Vladimir Nabokov under its contributors. On top…

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CIPC #60: Kiekeboe Vol.89, De s van pion

Posted on March 20, 2018March 21, 2018

Every now and then, some mainstream comic of tv-series features chess in one of its episodes; by now you might already be aware of that.…

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CIPC #59: Sargon series front covers

Posted on March 13, 2018April 22, 2018

Long time ago, in this very galaxy, I wrote a post showcasing some chess-themes book covers. At that time, I expected I might be able…

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CIPC #58: Existential comics No.215

Posted on March 6, 2018March 6, 2018

I think I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating: there’s some weird stuff on the internet. There’s a subreddit dedicated to unexpected factorials, there’s…

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CIPC #57: The big fat quiz of everything 2018

Posted on February 27, 2018

QI, Only Connect… the Brits have probably the greatest quiz programs in the world. It is not surprising, then, that every year there is an…

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CIPC #56: Batman Vol.1 No.23

Posted on February 20, 2018February 25, 2018

I have a confession to make: I know squat about American comics. Especially about superhero comics. Of course, there’s a lot of chess in them,…

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CIPC #55: Gargoyles S2 E9 City of stone

Posted on February 13, 2018

Gargoyles is an animated tv series from the nineties and I have a serious problem with it. The writing is quite interesting. It blends Shakespearean…

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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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