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CIPC #223: Taylor, Women playing chess

Posted on May 25, 2021January 3, 2022

It is time to parade some high culture in front of your eyes again while I talk condescendingly about paintings like I can tell undoubted…

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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 #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 #71: Budd, The chess board

Posted on June 5, 2018

It is time to bring some culture to this blog again – and nothing screams culture like some classical painting. Besides, the last time I…

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CIPC #47: Bennett, Cat and window

Posted on December 12, 2017

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…

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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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