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CIPC #232: Chanel ad

Posted on July 27, 2021

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…

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CIPC #227: Etsy ad

Posted on June 23, 2021January 3, 2022

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…

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CIPC #207: Norwich union ad

Posted on February 2, 2021February 2, 2021

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…

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CIPC #201: De strateeg ad

Posted on December 16, 2020

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…

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CIPC #195: Cores advertisement

Posted on November 3, 2020

Never before have I been so quick! Our subject for today — and today is November 3rd, 2020 — is an advertisement scanned from the…

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CIPC #194: NHL commercial

Posted on October 27, 2020

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…

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CIPC #190: Kentucky Tavern ad

Posted on September 29, 2020

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…

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CIPC #176: Shera ceiling tiles ad

Posted on June 23, 2020

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…

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CIPC#174: State Farm commerical

Posted on June 10, 2020

State Farm is one of those things, like red sups and school shootings, which most of the world is only familiar with through American media.…

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CIPC #170: Camel advertisement

Posted on May 12, 2020

If you were to ask me for my favourite sites, I would probably go on a tangent about how one should not assume that such…

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