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CIPC #251: Vogue cover

Posted on December 7, 2021December 7, 2021

Let’s continue our discussions of magazine covers. This time, we go all the way back to 1929. Vogue is already a well-established fashion magazine. Chess…

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CIPC #250: John Bull 16-12-1950

Posted on November 30, 2021

John Bull apparently started his existence — life seems too strong a word for a fictional character — in an eighteenth century pamphlet.1 Since then,…

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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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CIPC #36: New Scientist No.3144

Posted on September 26, 2017

In der Beschränkung zeigt sich der Meister. In our days of niche studies and absurdly specific website, Goethe’s quote is more poignant than ever. Still,…

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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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