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Revival
Today I want to mention this year's theme that for some time now was intended to be "Revival" because of what happened last year and all those other years that still matter today including the loss of my father. Revival is about bringing the past back, but its also to keep the truth alive again so I can continue my quest for answers while maintaining my belief that it's real but it might not be? It could also still be about artificial intelligence because technology is still

James Phelps
Jan 31 min read
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Defeating New Year's Nelson Bot
Today I tried playing against a new version of Nelson that plays better, but I found a way to beat it by trading queens, and using one of my rooks to put black's king in check so I could capture its last rook on the next move since it has to move out of check and was behind it. I eventually checkmated the king and won out of only the first try but this bot was tricky!

James Phelps
Jan 21 min read
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Blundered but took back
Tonight I played in an online chess tournament and had the game under control till I blundered my queen, but I still have a Never Say Die attitude from last year, so I kept playing trying to get my opponent to blunder their queen and luckily with some nice moves I was able to capture it with my knight that was persistently attacking black's queen and won my queen back when I promoted a pawn for one that led to checkmate, and what a good game it was!

James Phelps
Jan 11 min read
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Discovering the same flaw
Tonight I played the Holiday Ghost Bot as black this time, and discovered the same flaw from before when I captured its queen using my knight after playing a certain number of moves! I know how to defeat this AI because I beat it before, but this is another example of exploiting weakness because computers have them too, which makes it possible to defeat it but these are usually intentionally programmed into the AI to give the player a tactical advantage if discovered, which i

James Phelps
Dec 29, 20251 min read
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Destroyer of chess worlds
Tonight I played someone who was doing a great job challenging me, but I ended up trapping black's king into checkmate and won the game with success! I like to think of myself as the destroyer of chess worlds because I'm always competing with people from all over the world and that's why. Chess is not so simple because I do lose sometimes like earlier, but I don't give up unless it seems logical to resign because that makes more sense than to keep playing when the endgame is

James Phelps
Dec 28, 20251 min read
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Defeating the Holiday Ghost Bot
Tonight I played another game against the computer, only this time it was the Ghost of Games Past which was trickier than what I'm use to but I managed to capture black's queen that gave me a tactical advantage over my opponent which is no other than a computer but computers have flaws which means there has to be a weakness somewhere and I found it!

James Phelps
Dec 26, 20251 min read
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After playing Atari at chess
After playing Atari Video Chess on expert mode which didn't end well I played two more tournaments tonight I delivered a nice checkmate to my opponent in the final game but my opponent kind of walked into it after he blundered his queen and I was careful not to again!

James Phelps
Dec 24, 20251 min read
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Pinning a queen
Tonight I played four games of chess, one against the computer and one out of the three tournaments was another chess engine, but I won the fourth game by pinning my opponent's queen with a bishop so that he would be forced to give it up on the next move!

James Phelps
Dec 22, 20251 min read
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Too easy
Tonight after dinner I played someone at chess, but I think I really took advantage of their disadvantage which won me the game after black blundered its queen and then its rook? It seemed logical to resign in this losing position since the endgame seemed predictable once again, so he resigned like the last one, and I won with a nice tactic that was too easy!

James Phelps
Dec 20, 20251 min read
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Paranormal
Tonight I asked a Ghost detector that works like an Ouija board what is my code and it spelled out F-A-T-H-E-R, which is the solution to one of the ciphers I solved last year! It's not something I advertised before either, but the past still seems to haunt us?

James Phelps
Dec 18, 20251 min read
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Just another tournament
Tonight I played in another online chess tournament and after capturing one of my opponent's rooks he resigned in this position probably because I was winning? I guess it doesn't bother me as much if I lose again, but instead I won two games in a row! I think I lost to the computer last time, but that doesn't surprise me and I can learn from it.

James Phelps
Dec 15, 20251 min read
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Clever and deceiving
Tonight I played in an online chess tournament and won with some nice moves like putting my opponent king in check so I could capture his rook, and eventually white blundered its queen which led to resignation when the end game was predictable in that part of the game.

James Phelps
Dec 9, 20251 min read
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Stingray
I got back from the island today, but while staying on the island I went swimming in the pool at the Rec Center, and I wore black and yellow fins with a retro-style scuba mask that reminds me of Darth Vader's mask from Star Wars and Largo's mask from Thunderball, but that's what I was looking for when shopping for one earlier this year when planning the "Never Say Die" theme for this year which isn't over yet, but the last project was closed recently when coming to a conclusi

James Phelps
Dec 8, 20251 min read
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Forcing another blunder
Tonight after I lost a game I won a game with an awesome checkmate but not before I forced my opponent to blunder his queen by putting one of my bishops to it pinning it because white's king was diagonally across from it and my bishop, and my knight was protecting my bishop, so that's why white was forced to give up the queen. Once I had that I aimed at checkmating white's king that was easier once I had him where I wanted him, queen takes knight on e2 to king checkmate!

James Phelps
Dec 2, 20251 min read
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Closing Project Venom
I recently solved an encryption key that led to a none-existing domain that never existed in the first place because I checked the Wayback Machine for it, and there is no record of it ever existing at all, which points back to what I said earlier about finding a new approach to the truth, since this just isn't working for me anymore even if I am able to break most encryption? As for Project Venom, Scattered Spider hasn't resurfaced since they went dark in September and that's

James Phelps
Nov 28, 20251 min read
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Formulating an attack
Tonight I played a single game of chess in an online tournament, and after fooling my opponent to blunder their queen I formulated an attack on black's king and won with a nice checkmate thanks to some brilliant moves, but my pawns were the key to that since they were protecting my queen, and then my bishop when I delivered the ultimate checkmate!

James Phelps
Nov 25, 20251 min read
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Self-aware
Since artificial intelligence doesn't have a conscious or a conscious mind you can command it to do something, and it will be loyal like your pet dog sometimes since Dark GPT has no limits, but that can be dangerous if its used against a person like asking for someones number, or the keys to something if its used for hacking or breaking encryption if possible? But AI isn't self-aware yet, but it could happen if China gets what they want with Nvidia's AI chips that may burst t

James Phelps
Nov 24, 20251 min read
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Losing position for white
Today I played a number of games, but it felt more like I was playing an AI again till my opponent blundered their queen, and later I had to sacrifice mine to catch a pawn trying to make it across the board along with a newly promoted queen that I took using my last rook, which was also sacrificed, but when it came to me getting a pawn across it was protected by my bishop, and put white in a losing position, since it was impossible for white's rook to take? White resigned of

James Phelps
Nov 20, 20251 min read
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Forcing a blunder
Today I played a new opponent in a chess tournament and forced them to blunder his queen while using one of my knights to put his king in check, which is usually not that easy to achieve? The game went on for a little longer till I promoted a pawn for a queen, and then used it to deliver a checkmate and won the game!

James Phelps
Nov 19, 20251 min read
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Truth or Lie
Tonight I came to realize that this quest for the truth might never of been about that? All the ciphers I solved didn't reveal much either other than the solution, and that's why it came to this conclusion! To keep my quest alive I must find a new approach to the problem if the truth is still out there?

James Phelps
Nov 18, 20251 min read
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