Weetabix is a brand of breakfast cereal. In the space of all things, there is perhaps nothing farther removed from chess than breakfast cereals. So…
CIPC #401: Wunder ad
Although I’m sure it’s never going to go away entirely, the time of the printed advertisement seems to be drawing to a close. But advertisement…
CIPC #394: Botany 500 ad
I don’t think I’ve ever spotlighted suits here, probably because it wouldn’t suit me. That is probably why the guy in today’s subject looks so…
CIPC #382: OxyChem ad
When I first learned about the existence of a company called OxyChem — which happened shortly before this post — I immediately assumed they somehow…
CIPC #379: Honda Ridgeline ad
We’re finally leaving the Lewis chessmen behind, but we’re not quite back to normal pieces: they’re still human sized. And they figure in a commercial…
CIPC #368: Rothmans ad
Hah! I didn’t quit at all! After the utter despair at the end of my last blog post you could have been forgiven for thinking…
CIPC #359: Macintosh 1984 keynote speech
This year, it is precisely forty years ago that the first Macintosh computers were released on an unsuspecting world. With a full one hundred and…
CIPC #355: Univis ad
Glasses! Glasses are brilliant. They’re one of humanity’s greatest victories over nature. Instead of stumbling around in an eternal blur, millions of people can now…
CIPC #352: Union Investment ad
This is going to be a rather boring post, I’m afraid. You see, when the people at Union Investment decided to make a chess themed…
CIPC #346: Cox Communications ad
Cox Communications is a company that, among many other things, sells home security systems, including things like cameras, motion sensors, and of course — as…