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CIPC #116: Kelly, The plateau of chess

Posted on April 23, 2019

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…

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CIPC #115: The Addams family

Posted on April 16, 2019

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…

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CIPC #114: At land

Posted on April 9, 2019

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…

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CIPC #113: 7up commercial

Posted on April 2, 2019

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…

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CIPC #112: Civilization IV

Posted on March 26, 2019

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.…

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CIPC #111: The smurfs, Vol.11: The Olympic Smurfs

Posted on March 19, 2019March 20, 2019

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…

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CIPC #110: Hummel, Schachpartie im Palais Voss, Berlin

Posted on March 12, 2019March 12, 2019

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.…

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CIPC #109: Haaga, Schachstilleben

Posted on March 5, 2019

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…

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CIPC #108: Toyota Tacoma commercial

Posted on February 26, 2019

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…

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CIPC #107: The big bang theory, S5 E18: The werewolf transformation

Posted on February 19, 2019

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…

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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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