It is time to parade some high culture in front of your eyes again while I talk condescendingly about paintings like I can tell undoubted…
CIPC #153: Kilburne, A game of chess
Let’s get this new year started for real! Now with some shitty pop music, like last year, not with an obscure publicity photo, like 2018,…
CIPC #116: Kelly, The plateau of chess
Unless you are a connoisseur of the graphic arts, the name Leon Kelly probably doesn’t mean much to you, so a short biographic note seems…
CIPC #110: Hummel, Schachpartie im Palais Voss, Berlin
Originally, this was planned to be a sequel to last week’s post. I was going to dissect another slightly less obscure 19th century German painting.…
CIPC #109: Haaga, Schachstilleben
Suppose, just for the sake of argument, that you end up in Hannover. Assume, still completely hypothetically, that you have strolled through the Herrenhäuser Gärten…
CIPC #71: Budd, The chess board
It is time to bring some culture to this blog again – and nothing screams culture like some classical painting. Besides, the last time I…
CIPC #47: Bennett, Cat and window
It’s a strange but undeniable fact that most people do not read websites about Belgian chess history, nor are they interested in blog posts complaining…