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CIPC #290: The first spaceship on Venus

Posted on September 13, 2022October 7, 2022

Sadly, I will not be discussing an actual spaceship in this post. It would be astonishing, wouldn’t it, if a chess scene were painted on…

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CIPC #289: The doctor Blake mysteries S1 E6, If the shoe fits

Posted on September 6, 2022October 25, 2022

Australia! The land of weird, venomous animals, fairy bread, and TwoSet violin. I don’t think I have yet spotlighted any Australian television show or indeed…

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CIPC #288: Ninja in the killing fields

Posted on August 31, 2022August 31, 2022

Today, we’re going to talk about an obscure niche of pop culture you quite probably have never heard of: Hong Kong hack jobs. That’s not…

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CIPC #287: Guinea-Bissau Ruy López stamp

Posted on August 24, 2022August 24, 2022

When I first saw this stamp, I wondered where it was issued. It clearly says Guinea-Bissau, but why on Earth is there a big Finlandia…

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CIPC #286: Dennis the menace 29-07-2022

Posted on August 16, 2022August 16, 2022

There are certain fictional characters that one only starts to appreciate with age. Homer Simpson, for example, to a child seems like a boring loser.…

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CIPC #285: Fishbone, Party at ground zero

Posted on August 9, 2022August 9, 2022

Long, long time ago, when music videos were a new thing, almost anybody could get some airplay. Even a rock band with a short, random…

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CIPC #284: Calvin and Hobbes 10-09-1989

Posted on August 2, 2022August 2, 2022

What’s the best newspaper comic of all time? Many will say it’s The peanuts. Some people might prefer Dilbert, or The wizard of Id. Maybe…

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CIPC #283: The black shield of Falworth

Posted on July 26, 2022December 30, 2022

Which genres of movies are popular varies widely over time. Nowadays, the big thing are superhero movies, which didn’t really exist fifty years ago. On…

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CIPC #282: Bombay dry gin ad

Posted on July 20, 2022July 20, 2022

Oh look, another ad for an alcoholic beverage with a chess theme.1 Just another Wednesday. Okay, let’s get this over with then. Gin is a…

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CIPC #281: Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4

Posted on July 13, 2022December 30, 2022

Sometimes,people ask me why I haven’t spotlighted the Harry Potter movie yet.1 After all, it is one of the most famous movie scenes in recent…

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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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