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CIPC #406: Ilja Ilf & Jevgeni Petrov, De twaalf stoelen

Posted on December 31, 2024December 31, 2024

On the few occasions that I’ve talked about a book, I solely discussed the merits of the author. Today, I will consider it as a…

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CIPC #391: Celine Geser, Unsere Umwelt

Posted on September 17, 2024September 17, 2024

When the Where’s Wally? series1 conquered the world in the late eighties and early nineties, it more or less introduced the find-the-figure book to the…

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CIPC #372: Håkan Nesser, Het vierde offer

Posted on May 8, 2024May 8, 2024

I’ve written three different posts about chess in literature by now, in which several very brief unsuspecting chess scenes from a variety of books are…

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CIPC #300: Arturo Pérez-Reverte, La tabla de Flandes

Posted on November 29, 2022November 29, 2022

Following in my own illustrious footsteps, I will once more regale you with my running commentary — purely from a chess point of view, of…

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CIPC #161: Jay Richard Kennedy, Schach dem Vorsitzenden

Posted on March 10, 2020

Perhaps you have heard of a 1969 movie called The chairman? Maybe under its alternative title The most dangerous man in the world? It was…

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CIPC #144: Rivron, Het caravan kookboek

Posted on November 5, 2019November 5, 2019

It’s a — it’s a cookbook! When I started this blog, I was expecting many things. I knew there would be films, comic books, and…

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CIPC #84: Chess in literature

Posted on September 4, 2018September 5, 2018

So far, I have only talked about books in the 15th instalment of the Chess in Popular Culture series, where I discussed a bunch of…

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Chess in popular culture

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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