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Tough game
Tonight I played a challenging game of chess in an online tournament that was a bit hard, but I was careful not to blunder my queen, and avoiding white's queen which they blundered eventually when there wasn't any way to checkmate my king, and white resigned from the game because the winner seemed obvious in that point in the game if it would of continued?

James Phelps
15 hours ago1 min read
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Killer Bishop Award
Today I played someone again in an online chess tournament who blundered their queen which gave me an advantage, since I still had mine but instead used one of my bishops to deliver a checkmate in the endgame, which is rare! Upon that I finally achieved the "Killer Bishop Award" that I wanted for sometime, but its not that easy to come by and I did have the choice of using my queen instead, but would of regret it than since I've wanted this other award really bad, and saw an

James Phelps
6 days ago1 min read
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Some nice moves
Tonight I was playing chess against an Intermediate chess engine that is known for being a strong player, only after losing a game I won a game with some nice moves like tricking the computer into giving up its rook and knight when putting the king in check after promoting a queen. But highlight of the game might have been the way I checkmated black's king because I also used my last bishop to protect my newly promoted queen, while forcing black's king to distant itself from

James Phelps
7 days ago1 min read
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Tricks are for magicians
Tonight I played someone in an online chess tournament and won with some nice moves like using my bishop to put white's king in check, so I could capture white's last rook. I already captured the other one using one of my knights, and after capturing most of my opponent's pieces he resigned after blundering his bishop. This was a good game, but the best is yet to come...

James Phelps
Oct 231 min read
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When encryption fails
I've been studying encryption for a long time, but have also done a lot of code-breaking through frequency analyses and just simply running it by the computer, but all the same. I've gone over a dozen different puzzles that involved this, and the result usually that I solved it but does this mean that encryption is failing? I think it depends on the encryption, but most of the time people can figure it out if they're good at it, or they had some help? But nowadays people are

James Phelps
Oct 231 min read
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James's Trap IV
Tonight I played the Edith bot as black this time just to see if I could win with the black pieces, but instead I took the bait and fell for my own trap when I captured white's knight, and then a pawn checkmated my king, since in that point of the game it was compromised with no other escape, or option since I walked into this trap? My trap doesn't usually involve using bait but it worked for the computer!

James Phelps
Oct 221 min read
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Playing the odds again
Tonight I played three games, and had one draw out of two wins including this game that I played against a very strong opponent who was doing everything they could to checkmate me, but I defended to the point where the odds were on my side this time, and my opponent resigned! This was a good game and there's a reason why they call me the Puzzle Man or if you prefer Jigsaw Phantom, because I am a master of puzzles, and one day a master of chess.

James Phelps
Oct 161 min read
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Rematches are for revenge
Tonight I played someone new in an online chess tournament, but they managed to checkmate me, and I also blundered my queen before that,...

James Phelps
Oct 121 min read
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Defeating the Edith Bot
Tonight I played another Halloween theme bot that was named Edith, which has a higher rating than what I'm used to again, and it was a...

James Phelps
Oct 91 min read
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A better move
Tonight's online chess tournament proved to be fruitful when my opponent blundered their queen seeing that I had another chance to...

James Phelps
Oct 81 min read
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Project Venom
I'm launching a new project to find out more about Oktapus "Scattered Spider" to see what I can learn from it? Other than news reports...

James Phelps
Oct 51 min read
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Fooling the Clown
Tonight I played Check the Clown Bot as black this time for a different variation to see if it would lead to another draw or not, but...

James Phelps
Oct 41 min read
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Oktapus, not Octopus
The hacker group that goes by the name Oktapus, Octo Tempest, or if you like Scattered Spider came up recently when I was looking into...

James Phelps
Oct 41 min read
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Defensive position
Tonight I played someone in an online chess tournament who was doing everything they could to attack my side of the board, but I put up a...

James Phelps
Oct 31 min read
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Dead Man's Switch
Today I discovered why last year's long puzzle to do with the Grim Reaper deleted itself after I got to the end of it, and its because it...

James Phelps
Oct 21 min read
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Two draws, one win!
Later today I played Check the Clown Bot and had two draws before I was able to checkmate black's king, but it took more moves than most...

James Phelps
Oct 11 min read
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Trick or checkmate
Today is the first of October and I played against a Halloween theme bot that was suppose to be Martin, which is an easy AI seeing that...

James Phelps
Oct 11 min read
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Tricky game, easy checkmate
Tonight I played in an online chess tournament against my opponent who was pulling out all kinds of defensive moves including preventing...

James Phelps
Sep 301 min read
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Trapping my opponent
Last night I played a game of cat and mouse with my opponent in a chess tournament, and managed to capture white's queen on h5 that gave...

James Phelps
Sep 281 min read
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Defeating the Bishop Bot
Today I played a single game against the Bishop Bot and after a long game of cloak and dagger I was able to achieve a checkmate in just...

James Phelps
Sep 231 min read
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