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Famous people playing chess

Posted on February 21, 2017

This time, our topic is only tangentially related to chess in popular culture: we will be talking about famous chess enthusiasts. A few lists like…

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CIPC #7: Numb3rs, S1 E9: Sniper zero

Posted on February 14, 2017February 15, 2017

Previously, I called The mentalist a mediocre mystery fiction show. By these standards, Numb3rs is dreadful. First of all, the show has given in to…

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CIPC #6: Robbedoes 1980/33, Klont

Posted on February 7, 2017February 22, 2017

Today we’re going to do something a bit more obscure. So obscure, in fact, that the moniker ‘popular culture’ can barely be justified. Yes, today…

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CIPC #5: Manic street preachers, It’s not war (just the end of love)

Posted on February 4, 2017February 22, 2017

Oh frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! I got my first suggestion! That’s an important moment in the life of a young blog. So exciting! Less exciting…

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CIPC #4: Agatha Christie’s Poirot S5 E6: The chocolate box

Posted on January 31, 2017February 22, 2017

Belgium is a strange, strange country. I don’t mean the bizarre borders1 , the incredibly complicated politics2 , or the fact that there’s a Belgian…

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CIPC #3: Port mortem

Posted on January 24, 2017

“Post mortem” is the slightly macabre but very apt term chess players use for the after-game analysis with one’s opponent, where one looks at the…

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CIPC #2: The mentalist, S1 E3: Red tide

Posted on January 21, 2017February 7, 2017

I have quite a high tolerance for mediocre mystery fiction – and “mediocre mystery fiction” happens to be a perfect description of the American television…

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CIPC #1: The smurfs, Vol.10: The Smurf Soup

Posted on January 11, 2017January 19, 2017

Ah, the Smurfs! The little blue guys don’t need an introduction, I think, but I will give them one anyway. Here goes: the smurfs were,…

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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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