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Changing the game
Today I worked on a chess cipher for my main website which still shows a checkmate like the other one, only now its more accurate and...

James Phelps
12 hours ago1 min read
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Treasure Hunting
Today I'm including a cipher for you to solve that will lead to a hidden treasure: mqronovkibbvhvxpwwltguqepfkvpfof You will also need...

James Phelps
4 days ago1 min read
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Sticky situation
Tonight while playing chess against the more advanced Blunder Brothers, I got myself in a sticky situation like in the game I lost...

James Phelps
5 days ago1 min read
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One well played game
Tonight I played a game of chess with an adaptive AI that is always challenging at first, but once I had his queen, and rooks it was a...

James Phelps
Jun 191 min read
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Pawn protects Queen
Tonight I played another game of chess against the Blunder Brothers, and got his queen without sacrificing mine! And when it came to...

James Phelps
Jun 81 min read
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Defeating The Blunder Brothers
Tonight I played one game of chess against The Blunder Brothers bot which proved more promising than last time I played it and managed to...

James Phelps
Jun 71 min read
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Colossus supercomputer faces shutdown
Elon Musk's Colossus supercomputer in South Memphis, Tennessee faces being shutdown recently because of health risks regarding methane...

James Phelps
Jun 61 min read
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Too smart for the computer
Tonight I played a game of Video Chess against the computer and played a very accurate game and won after I saw a possible checkmate that...

James Phelps
Jun 41 min read
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Common theme this year
We're seeing a common theme this year that I thought long and hard about, and now it's here for spring and summer, but I was also...

James Phelps
May 311 min read
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AI blocks command to be shutdown
Recently they were testing artificial intelligence and the AI blocked a human command to be shutdown that suggests the AI feared for its...

James Phelps
May 261 min read
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Checkmate in 17 moves!
Tonight I played Chess with an AI named Maria that has a 1000 rating and is good, accept I managed to outsmart my opponent with a move...

James Phelps
May 221 min read
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Computer Chess
One of the first AI's could play chess because that's one of the first things we taught computers, but computers eventually passed human...

James Phelps
May 211 min read
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Chess Engine 6
Today I played an Intermediate chess engine which proves that my skills are better than before because I won! This game had to go...

James Phelps
May 201 min read
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Testing my patients
Today I played a game of chess with an AI that was testing my patients when it had the advantage, only by some miracle I managed to turn...

James Phelps
May 191 min read
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Before computers
In 1770 a mechanical contraption called the Mechanical Turk was designed to fool its opponents into believing it could play chess like...

James Phelps
May 191 min read
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Gold-Bug Cipher
I was taking a closer look at an image from Machine1337, which was of a hooded figure and checked it for hidden messages, and found what...

James Phelps
May 161 min read
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That number again...
A user that goes by the username "Machine1337" may have been involved in a data breach, but now it sounds bogus? That obfuscated code was...

James Phelps
May 151 min read
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Outsmarting an Adaptive AI
Tonight after one chess game came to a draw I played another game that was just as tricky, only with an Adaptive AI that was trying to...

James Phelps
May 141 min read
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Rematch with The Hacker
Tonight I played another game with The Hacker bot in a rematch, and did everything in my power to defeat him again which was never easy...

James Phelps
May 91 min read
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Defeating The Hacker
Tonight I played a very challenging game with a bot called The Hacker that plays significantly well, but after resigning from a game...

James Phelps
May 61 min read
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