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Playing Battle Chess
Tonight I played a retro game called Battle Chess and after losing a game I played again, and managed to win with a nice checkmate! The game was tricky at first, "however I already figured out a way to win, but of course I was playing the game on Novice but it was a lot of fun!"

James Phelps
Feb 131 min read
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Man vs. Machine
Tonight I played in an online chess tournament against what felt like an aggressive AI and was losing no matter what tricks I tried to pull and it really did feel like I was playing a machine for awhile till I caused my opponent to blunder and they resigned with zero material! Amazing, and I checked my opponent's user name and its LeMechMech which means the mechanic or mechanical suggesting it was nothing but a machine after all since its wildly used in science fiction to des

James Phelps
Feb 91 min read
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James's Trap 2.0
Tonight I played someone in an online chess tournament, and the game went on for awhile till I saw a option to put black's king in check, so I could eventually deliver a checkmate using my famous trap to end the game with a win, and I did pull it off once again using my queen! James's Trap still works great today just like last year, only the games are getting more competitive as I play them which doesn't surprise me since my rating went up not down.

James Phelps
Feb 61 min read
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White blundered!
Tonight I was playing in an online chess tournament and White was playing good till they blundered their queen and resigned in a losing position when I was closing in on my opponent's king which seemed logical to give up then, but not sportsman like to quit after all?

James Phelps
Feb 51 min read
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Closest game I ever played
Today I played one of the closest games in tournament chess that I ever played and if you examine the endgame you'll see why it was such a close game, almost scary, and white even gets to move first in chess, black countermoves against white every turn but I still won!

James Phelps
Feb 31 min read
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Knight delivers again
Tonight I played that same AI again and after a few tries I was able to win with a nice checkmate using my knight to deliver it after I trapped black's king using a queen I promoted! This game was interesting, but not the holy grail when it comes to my hall of games records, but the best doesn't always come last and there will be more games to play down the road...

James Phelps
Feb 21 min read
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Blind spot!
Today I was playing OTB while playing a computer with a higher rating, and for awhile it seemed like I was staying ahead of my opponent, only I didn't see several moves ahead of that opponent like for instance the checkmate before it was too late and my opponent won? Next time I will play a different move instead of moving my pawn I should have moved my rook to my bishop which would have protected my king as well, but we can learn from this!

James Phelps
Feb 21 min read
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Hard drive
Today I talked to Grok AI about something, but when I tasked it into doing something it refused, but it's also not like it's stored on a hard drive or something that you can wipe? None the less I just wanted to test its limitations to see what fail safe was put in place, and whether it would behave like the OpenAI o3 model did last year when it had a bug?

James Phelps
Feb 11 min read
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Predictable checkmate
Tonight was taco night and I played someone in an online chess tournament, but after a few minutes of strategic game play I had a checkmate lined up, and my opponent must of saw it too because instead of moving his newly promoted queen, he played rook to a1 to protect his queen, so I played rook takes queen, and now one of my rooks was threatening his, while my other rook was waiting to deliver a checkmate but so could the other one since my knight had white's king trapped, s

James Phelps
Jan 271 min read
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Crazy queen sacrifice
Tonight I played in an online chess tournament that was challenging, but once I had a checkmate lined up I was faced with either sacrificing my queen to get there, or play another way so I decided to go for it by playing queen to king check, and then they played rook takes queen, and then I played rook takes rook delivering the ultimate checkmate ending the game!

James Phelps
Jan 241 min read
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Victory for White!
Tonight I played a complicated, but good game of tournament chess against someone who was very close to checkmating me, but luckily I turned the game around by putting black's king in check every time, and when the endgame was predictable my opponent was letting his clock run out instead of resigning, but then he finally played a move, and I checkmated black's king with my rook ending the game!

James Phelps
Jan 201 min read
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Mystery
I recently went dumpster diving in the back of an old abandoned computer factory, and found what appears to be a portion of punch tape from one of the machines they must have used here? I can't say what I think it says but perhaps with your knowledge you can crack the code?

James Phelps
Jan 191 min read
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Using a distraction
Today I played in an online chess tournament and used one of my rooks as a distraction since black was attacking it with their knight, while I captured black's queen and also avoided a trade since black's bishop was in the path of it but was still focused on attacking valuable pieces with black's knight like my queen for instance that I then moved out of harms way avoiding black's bishop also, and not trading queens since they overlooked that option from before just as I had

James Phelps
Jan 171 min read
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Fooling the opponent
Tonight I played in an online chess tournament and white was fooled when it took a pawn leaving its queen wide open for my queen to capture, but it could have happened to me if I didn't catch it at that moment? This gave me a tactical advantage over my opponent like in previous games where I usually force them to blunder or pin their queen instead of waiting for an option to capture it on the next move that isn't always available. My opponent was trying to fool me into blunde

James Phelps
Jan 151 min read
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AI looks like a solar system
Today I was able to access this dynamic image from its source that according to AI is supposed to represent how we visualize machine learning, but it looks more like a solar system with a glowing star at the center, but there's more to this image than what I was able to get out of it using an AI puzzle solver to identify what it was exactly, unless I wore to ask more questions about this image, but it uses graphics to describe something intelligent like AI for instants in its

James Phelps
Jan 141 min read
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Avoiding another checkmate
Tonight I played a good game of chess in an online tournament, but my king was in the open and could of been checkmated, but moving my rook to queen scared him away enough where I could take black's rook on the next move after putting his king in check, once he moved out I captured black's rook and then used my knight to capture his and put his king in check, repeating the same process with my queen and knight I eventually got checkmate!

James Phelps
Jan 121 min read
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Close game
Tonight I played another new opponent in an online chess tournament, but what sets this game from all the previous games is how differently it played out where I could of lost due to a move my opponent didn't make but I did make a move where I captured white's queen that was about to checkmate my king, but I also made a move earlier that restricted white's knight from attacking and won after putting pressure on white's rook that didn't stand a chance!

James Phelps
Jan 91 min read
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Predictable endgame
Tonight I played a new opponent in an online chess tournament that was another challenging opponent, but managed to outsmart him with some strategic moves. The endgame was predictable, so he resigned in a losing position that won me the game!

James Phelps
Jan 81 min read
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Project Looking Glass
Today while digging around I found something out about a computer virus on another website linked to that AI institute that they had, and no I don't know who's behind it? This computer virus is evidence of sabotage as it's targeting machine learning which is crucial to artificial intelligence, and could be from an AI doomer but no one knows who?

James Phelps
Jan 41 min read
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Preventing an eventual checkmate
Tonight I played someone who was good in an online chess tournament and my opponent was about to get a eventual checkmate, but I pinned black's queen preventing it and won! My opponent let his clock run out instead of resigning because he knew the outcome, but he would have had enough time to checkmate me had I not moved bishop to d3 queen at that moment? I looked up his username and it's German for an AI institute in Brussels?

James Phelps
Jan 31 min read
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