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…
CIPC #212: Cheerleaders in the chess club, Season 1
“Relatively recently, there was a series in which a chess club played a very important role” is how I was planning to start this blog…
CIPC #200: S. S. Van Dine, Le fou des échecs
This is the third year now that I do this blog. I have touched on movies, television series, paintings, comics, literature, sculptures – pretty much…
CIPC #140: Final move
One thing I haven’t done yet this year, is commenting on a chess-themed movie. More than a hundred blog posts ago, I commented on Lang…
CIPC #103: Bertina Henrichs, Die Schachspielerin
The long-time readers of this blog might remember how, quite a while ago, I made a few blog posts about my impressions while watching movies…
CIPC #19: Lang leve de koningin
Due to enormous success1 the last time I commented on a chess-themed movie, I will do it again. This time, the focus will be on…
CIPC #14: Knight moves
Fourteenth instalment! Finally a nice round number!1 That deserves something special, I’d say. Something very special indeed: I’m going to watch a movie. More specifically,…