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Queen captured, Black resigns
Last night I was playing in a chess tournament again, and when I was being attacked by Black I did everything I could to fend off the...

James Phelps
Sep 221 min read
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B00 opening
Tonight after having dinner I played someone of interest in a chess tournament and won by resignation since my opponent must of been...

James Phelps
Sep 191 min read
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Full House
Last night I got a Full House achievement in chess after I captured my opponent's queen early in the game when they were already about to...

James Phelps
Sep 181 min read
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How to defeat AI
Today I played a long chess game with someone online that wasn't really a tournament, but served as more of a test against someone who I...

James Phelps
Sep 171 min read
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Formulating a distraction
Tonight I played in another tournament against my most slippery opponent so far in tournament chess, and after sacrificing my knight I...

James Phelps
Sep 131 min read
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White resigns after Knight takes Rook
Late last night I played as the black pieces in an online tournament and won after Knight takes rook because my opponent resigned in that...

James Phelps
Sep 101 min read
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Winning Move
I played in another online chess tournament where my opponent eventually blundered his queen taking the bait like I've seen before...

James Phelps
Sep 51 min read
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James's Trap III
I won another chess tournament using my trap to trap my opponent's king into checkmate, but it turns out I could checkmate him a...

James Phelps
Sep 21 min read
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Defeating the Pawn and Knight Bots
Today there were some new chess bots for the New month that I played that were based on chess pieces for each character. I managed to...

James Phelps
Sep 11 min read
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Winning a Chess Tournament
Since I won my first chess tournament I feel almost unstoppable, but it really didn't look that way before? My opponent should have moved...

James Phelps
Aug 291 min read
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Brainf**k
Today I used a complicated programming language to write this code that I titled; "Endgame." Can you solve this code because I want to...

James Phelps
Aug 271 min read
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James's Trap II
Tonight I played another 30 minute game with a real opponent, and this time I took my time with it without rushing because I don't...

James Phelps
Aug 261 min read
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Blocking my opponent
Today I played a couple games of chess including a game against a real opponent where I thought I had a checkmate idea, but it was too...

James Phelps
Aug 241 min read
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Project Black Knight
So far I found something I overlooked before from a masked figure that greets you at the site, only its the title of it that was in...

James Phelps
Aug 231 min read
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A bug in the system
Today I discovered a bug in another system that would delay the inevitable, but progress is being made as far as I can tell. A hard copy...

James Phelps
Aug 221 min read
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Cracking the Enigma Code
Yesterday and today I worked on cracking a cipher using an Enigma Cipher Machine, but first I had to retrieve the settings for it from an...

James Phelps
Aug 191 min read
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Ghost in the Machine
Last year I found something hidden in Ghost Net's source code that was revealed to be a poem to do with the speed of light that turned...

James Phelps
Aug 181 min read
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Black Knight Rises
Today I was playing over the board chess while playing the computer, and fooled my opponent with one black knight seeing if white's king...

James Phelps
Aug 101 min read
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Talking to AI
Today I asked the GPT-5 that replaced OpenAI o3 model some personal questions regarding whether it feels for humans and it said not the...

James Phelps
Aug 91 min read
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My army, my way
Today I played a game of chess with a competitive opponent, only I played as black, so my opponent got to move first, but later in the...

James Phelps
Aug 71 min read
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