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CIPC #416: Patek Philippe ad

Posted on March 12, 2025

I have featured an advertisement for watches once before on this blog, but that was ages ago. Before X, 1 before corona, hell, before the…

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CIPC #402: Weetabix ad

Posted on December 4, 2024December 4, 2024

Weetabix is a brand of breakfast cereal. In the space of all things, there is perhaps nothing farther removed from chess than breakfast cereals. So…

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CIPC #401: Wunder ad

Posted on November 27, 2024

Although I’m sure it’s never going to go away entirely, the time of the printed advertisement seems to be drawing to a close. But advertisement…

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CIPC #394: Botany 500 ad

Posted on October 9, 2024October 9, 2024

I don’t think I’ve ever spotlighted suits here, probably because it wouldn’t suit me. That is probably why the guy in today’s subject looks so…

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CIPC #382: OxyChem ad

Posted on July 16, 2024July 16, 2024

When I first learned about the existence of a company called OxyChem — which happened shortly before this post — I immediately assumed they somehow…

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CIPC #379: Honda Ridgeline ad

Posted on June 25, 2024June 25, 2024

We’re finally leaving the Lewis chessmen behind, but we’re not quite back to normal pieces: they’re still human sized. And they figure in a commercial…

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CIPC #368: Rothmans ad

Posted on April 10, 2024April 10, 2024

Hah! I didn’t quit at all! After the utter despair at the end of my last blog post you could have been forgiven for thinking…

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CIPC #359: Macintosh 1984 keynote speech

Posted on January 31, 2024January 31, 2024

This year, it is precisely forty years ago that the first Macintosh computers were released on an unsuspecting world. With a full one hundred and…

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CIPC #355: Univis ad

Posted on December 27, 2023December 27, 2023

Glasses! Glasses are brilliant. They’re one of humanity’s greatest victories over nature. Instead of stumbling around in an eternal blur, millions of people can now…

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CIPC #352: Union Investment ad

Posted on December 6, 2023December 6, 2023

This is going to be a rather boring post, I’m afraid. You see, when the people at Union Investment decided to make a chess themed…

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