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CIPC #275: Fritz Leiber, The 64-square madhouse

Posted on May 31, 2022May 31, 2022

The 64-square madhouse, a short story by Fritz Leiber published in 1962 in IF worlds of science fiction. It tells of the first super chess…

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CIPC #212: Cheerleaders in the chess club, Season 1

Posted on March 10, 2021January 3, 2022

“Relatively recently, there was a series in which a chess club played a very important role” is how I was planning to start this blog…

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CIPC #200: S. S. Van Dine, Le fou des échecs

Posted on December 9, 2020

This is the third year now that I do this blog. I have touched on movies, television series, paintings, comics, literature, sculptures – pretty much…

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CIPC #140: Final move

Posted on October 8, 2019October 8, 2019

One thing I haven’t done yet this year, is commenting on a chess-themed movie. More than a hundred blog posts ago, I commented on Lang…

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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 #19: Lang leve de koningin

Posted on May 16, 2017June 6, 2017

Due to enormous success1 the last time I commented on a chess-themed movie, I will do it again. This time, the focus will be on…

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CIPC #14: Knight moves

Posted on April 11, 2017April 12, 2017

Fourteenth instalment! Finally a nice round number!1 That deserves something special, I’d say. Something very special indeed: I’m going to watch a movie. More specifically,…

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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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