After one hundred sixty three blog post, I can apparently still stumble upon something which is novel: I have never written about a DJ before.…
CIPC #163: Friday the 13th part 2
This blog is, as the name suggests, about chess in pop culture. Last week, we talked about the culture part, today we’ll deal with the…
CIPC #162: M. C. Escher, Metamorphose II
I assume, I guess, I hope, that Dutch artist M. C. Escher needs no introduction. His lithographs and woodcuts have penetrated the farthest corners of…
CIPC #161: Jay Richard Kennedy, Schach dem Vorsitzenden
Perhaps you have heard of a 1969 movie called The chairman? Maybe under its alternative title The most dangerous man in the world? It was…
CIPC #160: Jonny Quest E.19, Attack of the tree people
By a bit of an accident, I recently stumbled upon the existence of a franchise with three different TV-series, two made-for-TV movies, a series of…