After last week’s post, I was kind of struggling with writer’s block. I mean, how do you follow up on accidentally composing a chess problem?…
CIPC #46: Independence day
Last week we talked about Red Bull, this week we’re tackling its cinematic counterpart: Roland Emmerich’s 1996 movie Independence day – which revived the disaster…
CIPC #42: Aladdin
Received opinion has it that chess originated in India, slowly evolving as it spread westwards from the original chaturaṅga into the modern version that is…
CIPC #31: The unbearable lightness of being
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that every single book with good reviews, must be in want of a movie version. Hence, with the inevitability…
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 #17: 1984
One sure sign of an author’s lasting success is when his phrases and his words become common parlance. Very few authors have achieved this in…