We finished last year talking about a strange advertisement from an American aluminium company. We will start this year by talking about a strange advertisement…
CIPC #254: Bohn ad
Our subject for today is one of the stranger ads I have seen. It appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1952 and was apparently…
CIPC #232: Chanel ad
All too rare are examples of the happy few, the names that everybody knows, the a-list celebrities, that show up at the chessboard. Consequently, the…
CIPC #227: Etsy ad
Etsy is quite famous in America but I think it is far less popular here in Europe, so perhaps a little background information is in…
CIPC #207: Norwich union ad
Norwich! The great city of Norwich! Its cathedral, its mustard, its football team, its famous sons Lord Nelson and Alan Partridge,1 its union. Yes, its…
CIPC #201: De strateeg ad
Our subject for today is a podcast. Well, not quite. It’s some kind of ad that, at the time of writing, appears as the official…
CIPC #195: Cores advertisement
Never before have I been so quick! Our subject for today — and today is November 3rd, 2020 — is an advertisement scanned from the…
CIPC #194: NHL commercial
The truth is harsh, but it’s the truth nonetheless: chess isn’t very popular. If we take Belgium as an admittedly particularly bad example, we find…
CIPC #190: Kentucky Tavern ad
No interesting introduction this time. The New Yorker of February 2nd 1946 contains an advertisement for the Kentucky Tavern brand bourbon. It features a chess…
CIPC #176: Shera ceiling tiles ad
I have bad news for the regular CIPC readers: today we’re going to tackle a philosophical question. Yes, one of those deep mysteries that bother…