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.…
CIPC #109: Haaga, Schachstilleben
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…
CIPC #98: Guido Metsers, Prins Maurits
IJzendijke – who can honestly claim to ever have heard of the name? A small Zealandian townlet, little more than a hamlet, tucked away near…
CIPC #70: Chess board box covers
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…
CIPC #67: Barneby wand decoration
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…
CIPC #61: The New Yorker Vol.52 No.28
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…
CIPC #47: Bennett, Cat and window
It’s a strange but undeniable fact that most people do not read websites about Belgian chess history, nor are they interested in blog posts complaining…
CIPC #11: Checkmate the king
As you might already have deduced from this site and its title, I have a slight interest in history. Yet in this blog, I haven’t…