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CIPC #139: Miller advertisement

Posted on October 1, 2019October 1, 2019

The image below can be found easily on the net. It is apparently from an advertisement campaign for Miller beer from, I think, the end…

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CIPC #137: Coca cola advertisement

Posted on September 17, 2019September 17, 2019

The greatest rivalries of history and literature – the Montagues and the Capulets, the Hatfields and the McCoys, Barça and Real- pale in comparison to…

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CIPC #128: Keds advertisement

Posted on July 16, 2019

Keds is a brand of sneakers. As in, footwear. But you wouldn’t be able to tell from their advertisement. Case in point: the image below,…

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CIPC #122: meetup.com commercial

Posted on June 4, 2019

Apparently, there are people out there. As if that thought wasn’t scary enough, those people sometimes want to meet each other. This is precisely what…

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CIPC #113: 7up commercial

Posted on April 2, 2019

It is relatively common to see chess in commercials, but it’s very rare indeed to see correspondence chess make an appearance. And the last place…

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CIPC #108: Toyota Tacoma commercial

Posted on February 26, 2019

Having a contest with the grim reaper with one’s life at stake is a very old trope. Older than chess, in fact. But in medieval…

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CIPC #92: Barque advertisement

Posted on October 30, 2018

Pretty much every time I talk about chess in advertisement, I point out that chess is used to symbolise intelligence and sophistication, but it has…

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CIPC #89: Vittel commercial

Posted on October 9, 2018October 7, 2018

Can I go on a little rant for a moment? Well, this is my blog, so I most definitely can! So here I go: modern…

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CIPC #77: Samsung advertisement

Posted on July 17, 2018

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…

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CIPC #73: Ronzoni commercial

Posted on June 19, 2018

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…

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With this blog, I will critique chess as it appears in all sorts of popular media. I will honour the good and, probably much more frequently, castigate the bad.

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