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CIPC #372: Håkan Nesser, Het vierde offer

Posted on May 8, 2024May 8, 2024

I’ve written three different posts about chess in literature by now, in which several very brief unsuspecting chess scenes from a variety of books are…

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CIPC #321: Chess in literature: the D-quel.

Posted on May 2, 2023May 2, 2023

Yes, after the sequel, there is now finally also the d-quel. Yes, I realise how awful that pun is. No, I’m not sorry about it.1…

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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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