Ah, hidden object games! If you have the licence to slap a popular title on a game but you haven’t got the game to slap…
CIPC #270: Kavanagh GC S3 E5, The ties that bind
Do you remember when we talked about inspector Morse? The famous detective based on the novels by Colin Dexter and played by John Thaw? Well,…
CIPC #269: Paul Masson ad
Now here’s something different! Companies sometimes organise chess tournaments as a form of advertisement. They may sometimes even offer personal sponsorship to really successful players.…
CIPC #268: The invisible boy
From the title The invisible boy, you might guess that this is some fifties b-movie, perhaps like The day the Earth stood still or The…
CIPC #267: Mr. Bean E13, Goodnight Mr. Bean
While Rowan Atkinson is widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest British comedians in history, I only really knew him from Blackadder. I had…
CIPC #266: Agent Provocateur ad
Intuitively, one would perhaps expect chess themes to mainly occur in advertisement for brainy things, like insurance, or computers, or stocks or something. But it…
CIPC #265: Family ties S1 E17, French lessons
When we talk about TV series on this blog, someone has usually been murdered. There is probably a cop in a foul mood around, accompanied…
CIPC #264: Album covers
A long time ago, I wrote a blog post about chess themed book covers, which greatly endangered my faith in humanity. A later post about…
CIPC #263: KikoRiki S2 E99, Chess
It is a truth universally acknowledged that children are getting worse and worse at pretty much every subject in school. Almost every vaguely modern phenomenon…
CIPC #262: Little nightmares 2
Time to talk about a video game once more! Little nightmares 2 is a puzzle-platformer from five years ago. In it, the player takes control…