Samsung is known as one of the biggest and most famous electronics manufacturers in the world, but it is also an adjective used in music…
CIPC #73: Ronzoni commercial
If you have read some of my other blog posts, you will have noticed that I usually start with a short text providing context for…
CIPC #53: Highland queen advertisement
“The good old days.” What rot! Rarely has such a huge amount of bullshit been concentrated in one sentence. In the old days, people died…
CIPC #50: Rocky III publicity shot
From all the sports in the world, boxing is the most mystifying to me. I just cannot picture any decent person answering the question ‘what…
CIPC #49: L’Islam – c’est aussi notre histoire
At the time of writing there is an ongoing exhibition in Brussels about the history of Islam in Europe. For the official poster, the organisers…
CIPC #45: Red Bull advertisement
While we’re on the topic of advertisement for drinks featuring chess, let’s talk about Red Bull. It is a relatively new drink, launched in Austria…
CIPC #44: Smirnoff advertisement
Sometimes I have serious difficulty starting one of these posts. For example, what could I possibly tell about Smirnoff that not everybody knows already? The…
CIPC #43: Universum Bremen
Suppose for a moment that by some strange twist of fate you end up in Bremen for a day or two. Maybe the Deutsche Bahn…
CIPC #25: Pepsi Cola advertisement
Nowadays, there is a light version of pretty much every foodstuff you can think of. There’s light soft drinks, there’s light chips, there’s light fries…
CIPC #20: Promofilm liga Antwerpen
What is the last place where you would expect an impossible position to appear on the chessboard? I don’t know precisely what my own answer…