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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 #252: Chess in literature, the sequel

Posted on December 14, 2021January 3, 2022

Long, long time ago — the world was still innocent then1 — I wrote a blog post about chess in literature. In it, I discussed…

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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 #84: Chess in literature

Posted on September 4, 2018September 5, 2018

So far, I have only talked about books in the 15th instalment of the Chess in Popular Culture series, where I discussed a bunch of…

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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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