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CIPC #419: Globi Vol.57, Globis Abenteuer im Weltraum

Posted on April 1, 2025April 1, 2025

I imagine that, throughout the years, many people have perused this blog and arrived at the conclusion that, although my writings are not wholly without…

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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 #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 #152: Hein Heijnen, Rokade

Posted on December 31, 2019December 31, 2019

Rokade is a book written (in Dutch; the title means Castling) by an MD by the name of Hein Heijnen. It appeared in the prehistoric1…

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CIPC #103: Bertina Henrichs, Die Schachspielerin

Posted on January 22, 2019

The long-time readers of this blog might remember how, quite a while ago, I made a few blog posts about my impressions while watching movies…

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CIPC #15: Book cover galore

Posted on April 18, 2017

Chess, due to its symbolical connotations, is a popular motive for book covers, even if the book itself has nothing whatever to do with it.…

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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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