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CIPC #264: Album covers

Posted on March 15, 2022December 28, 2022

A long time ago, I wrote a blog post about chess themed book covers, which greatly endangered my faith in humanity. A later post about…

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CIPC #242: Lego chess sets box covers

Posted on October 6, 2021

I can imagine Nintendo disappearing. I can imagine Hot Wheels disappearing. But I can not image Lego disappearing. The ingenious connecting system, the sturdy material,…

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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 #145: Chess book cover galore

Posted on November 12, 2019November 12, 2019

It was a long time ago. It was a simpler time then and there was a certain sincerity to the world, born of simplicity more…

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CIPC #70: Chess board box covers

Posted on May 29, 2018

I found a new bizarre niche of CIPC material to get lost in! You can go online, find some pictures of cheap chess sets and…

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CIPC #61: The New Yorker Vol.52 No.28

Posted on March 27, 2018April 22, 2018

Among literary magazines, the New Yorker takes pride of place, counting authors like Roald Dahl, Haruki Murakami, and Vladimir Nabokov under its contributors. On top…

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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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