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CIPC #162: M. C. Escher, Metamorphose II

Posted on March 17, 2020

I assume, I guess, I hope, that Dutch artist M. C. Escher needs no introduction. His lithographs and woodcuts have penetrated the farthest corners of…

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CIPC #158: Mysterium

Posted on February 18, 2020

More than one hundred posts ago, I talked about dixit, a popular card game featuring a bunch of highly surrealistic but beautifully drawn cards, on…

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CIPC #153: Kilburne, A game of chess

Posted on January 14, 2020

Let’s get this new year started for real! Now with some shitty pop music, like last year, not with an obscure publicity photo, like 2018,…

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CIPC #143: Stone, Impending mate & Mated

Posted on October 29, 2019October 29, 2019

Some twenty years ago, there was a regular contributor to the magazine Chess writing under the name C. P. Ravilious. He mainly wrote a column…

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CIPC #116: Kelly, The plateau of chess

Posted on April 23, 2019

Unless you are a connoisseur of the graphic arts, the name Leon Kelly probably doesn’t mean much to you, so a short biographic note seems…

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CIPC #110: Hummel, Schachpartie im Palais Voss, Berlin

Posted on March 12, 2019March 12, 2019

Originally, this was planned to be a sequel to last week’s post. I was going to dissect another slightly less obscure 19th century German painting.…

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CIPC #109: Haaga, Schachstilleben

Posted on March 5, 2019

Suppose, just for the sake of argument, that you end up in Hannover. Assume, still completely hypothetically, that you have strolled through the Herrenhäuser Gärten…

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CIPC #98: Guido Metsers, Prins Maurits

Posted on December 11, 2018

IJzendijke – who can honestly claim to ever have heard of the name? A small Zealandian townlet, little more than a hamlet, tucked away near…

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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 #67: Barneby wand decoration

Posted on May 8, 2018May 9, 2018

In every big city you can find a games bar nowadays; a place where you can get together to play boardgames with friends1 while having…

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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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