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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…