Compiling the usual end-of-year list has been harder than usual this time. I’ve been more consistent, it seems. That means that this year’s bests are…
CIPC extra: The best and worst of 2022
2022 has been quite a turbulent year. The most remarkable thing, the one that will stick in people’s minds for the longest, is probably the…
CIPC extra: Computer generated chess graphics
We interrupt your regularly scheduled chess-in-popular-culture program to bring you an important message. Some of my diligent readers may have noticed this already, but I…
CIPC extra: The best and worst of 2021
I almost forgot about it, but in exactly one week this blog will celebrate its fifth birthday! Well, it will be its fifth birthday, at…
CIPC extra: The best and worst of 2020
Never before have people been so eager for a year to end. All because they cannot wait for my review of the year. I can…
CIPC extra: The best and worst of 2019
And thus, a third year of weekly blog posts has finally drawn to an end. It is therefore time for my yearly look back, collecting…
CIPC extra: The best and worst of 2018
Another year, another fiftyish posts, another sample set of qualities of blog posts, approximately normally distributed around a far too low mean. Since it is…
CIPC #62: Championship conflict
The history of the world chess championship is filled with scandals. Delicious, delicious scandals. Some of the more famous ones are the yoghurt incident (Karpow…