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CIPC #303: The adventures of dr. Fu Manchu intro

Posted on December 21, 2022December 21, 2022

Once more, quite some time after the crime doctor and Philo Vance, we’re brutally tearing another long-forgotten franchise from Morpheus’ arms and putting it right…

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CIPC #302: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation S14 E16, Killer Moves

Posted on December 13, 2022December 13, 2022

The hugely popular television series about crime scene investigations, CSI, started over twenty years ago now. Since then, there have been so many season, adaptations,…

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CIPC #301: Stalag 17

Posted on December 6, 2022December 6, 2022

A while ago, when I talked about Hogan’s heroes, I mentioned how odd of an idea it seemed to have a comedy set in a…

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CIPC #300: Arturo Pérez-Reverte, La tabla de Flandes

Posted on November 29, 2022November 29, 2022

Following in my own illustrious footsteps, I will once more regale you with my running commentary — purely from a chess point of view, of…

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CIPC #299: Bernard Bear, Chess

Posted on November 23, 2022December 30, 2022

People often think that early childhood is a happy, carefree time where other people make your food, where you have no bills to pay, and…

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CIPC #298: Rage at dawn

Posted on November 15, 2022November 15, 2022

That’s terrible advice. Clearly, you should rage in the late afternoon. At that point, most people have already had a stressful day and are ready…

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CIPC #297: Ivo op zondag 27-03-2022

Posted on November 9, 2022December 30, 2022

This is a bit of a rarity: a talk show! Yes, Ivo op zondag (Ivo on Sunday) is a Dutch television program in which the…

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CIPC #296: Rat-Man No.48

Posted on November 2, 2022November 2, 2022

When you think of comics, you probably think about American superhero comics, Japanese manga, or perhaps the Franco-Belgian bandes dessinées. You probably don’t think of…

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CIPC #295: Hum Tum

Posted on October 25, 2022December 30, 2022

Every now and then,1 I spotlight an ad on this blog. Today, I’ll write one. It’s going to be an ad for the Max Euwe…

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CIPC #294: Batman S1 E11, A riddle a day keeps the Riddler away

Posted on October 18, 2022October 18, 2022

Before I ever laid eyes on any episode of the Adam West Batman series from the sixties, I had this idea, gotten through sheer cultural…

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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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