Unless you are a connoisseur of the graphic arts, the name Leon Kelly probably doesn’t mean much to you, so a short biographic note seems…
CIPC #115: The Addams family
The Addams family is the story of an old noble family with an enormous fortune, a slight supernatural touch, and a distinct taste for the…
CIPC #114: At land
At land is not as well-known as the movies I usually feature in this series, so maybe some explanation is in order. It is a…
CIPC #113: 7up commercial
It is relatively common to see chess in commercials, but it’s very rare indeed to see correspondence chess make an appearance. And the last place…
CIPC #112: Civilization IV
Chess is, of course, the greatest strategy game in the world; I don’t think the readers of this blog need to be convinced of that.…
CIPC #111: The smurfs, Vol.11: The Olympic Smurfs
In the more than two years I have been discussing chess in popular culture on this blog, I have seen the most horrible atrocities being…
CIPC #110: Hummel, Schachpartie im Palais Voss, Berlin
Originally, this was planned to be a sequel to last week’s post. I was going to dissect another slightly less obscure 19th century German painting.…
CIPC #109: Haaga, Schachstilleben
Suppose, just for the sake of argument, that you end up in Hannover. Assume, still completely hypothetically, that you have strolled through the Herrenhäuser Gärten…
CIPC #108: Toyota Tacoma commercial
Having a contest with the grim reaper with one’s life at stake is a very old trope. Older than chess, in fact. But in medieval…
CIPC #107: The big bang theory, S5 E18: The werewolf transformation
If you’ve been living under a rock for half your life, you are probably an invertebrate. Also, you might not know about The big bang…