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New Chess Board
Today I played Chess on my new chess board that I received and after losing a game I won a game, only it was a different bot since I'm...

James Phelps
Apr 21 min read
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How to crack Zodiac
The Zodiac left a maze of riddles and ciphers for not only police to solve but people from all over and I think he hinted on how to solve...

James Phelps
Apr 11 min read
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Outsmarting a smarter AI
Tonight after losing two games earlier I played another chess game with the AI that was playing pretty good except I still managed to...

James Phelps
Mar 291 min read
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Another Backdoor
I recently heard of a leak from Signal Chat where passwords and other confidential data was being leaked from a lot of Republicans...

James Phelps
Mar 271 min read
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Cracking Cicada 3301
We often wonder who or what was behind the Cicada 3301 puzzles since that's how I believe it all started? Some say it's the NSA, CIA, or...

James Phelps
Mar 231 min read
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Three Books
There are at least three known books that are said to exist besides Liber Primus meaning First Book, and there was one I solved which...

James Phelps
Mar 221 min read
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Technological Game
Tonight I played chess with a bot named Tectone that probably plays like a real person, only it's not a real person, but another AI which...

James Phelps
Mar 211 min read
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Using a Chess Cipher
Tonight I used a chess cipher to encode something that I want to reveal, but to get the message out I need to either arrange the chess...

James Phelps
Mar 141 min read
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Messing with the Computer
Tonight after losing a chess game I played an adaptive AI that plays to your level depending on your moves but wasn't always easy to...

James Phelps
Mar 131 min read
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Trapping and cornering the King
Tonight I played a game of chess and was able to deliver another easy checkmate seeing that my opponent's king got cornered against...

James Phelps
Mar 121 min read
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Predicting and countermoves
I'm finding out that it's getting easier to win at chess than lose but perhaps I've gotten better at predicting the computer's movements...

James Phelps
Mar 101 min read
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Chess Engine 5
Tonight I played a chess engine that is probably the highest beginner level but I have beating computers with a higher rating before,...

James Phelps
Mar 81 min read
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Homophonic Cipher flaw
Today I discovered a flaw or backdoor into the Homophonic cipher. If you input "recipe" as the encryption key to any text encrypted with...

James Phelps
Mar 71 min read
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Knight delivers checkmate
Tonight I was playing Video Chess and the computer kept using the queen it promoted to attack my king in order to prevent me from getting...

James Phelps
Mar 51 min read
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Forcing the King into checkmate
Tonight I played a game of chess with a new AI that doesn't play bad except I think I was able to think ahead of the player the whole...

James Phelps
Mar 31 min read
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Time is the key
Tonight I worked on a puzzle from a video where an electronic voice was saying; "the time is 41 minutes till midnight." Which is 11:19 PM...

James Phelps
Feb 281 min read
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Fooling the Computer
Tonight I played Atari Video Chess online and the AI was putting a tight net up around it's king so much that after fooling the...

James Phelps
Feb 271 min read
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Deciphering Morse code
Today I deciphered some hexadecimal along with bits of Morse code in text and in an audio I found deciphering the hex which led to...

James Phelps
Feb 261 min read
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Computer glitch
Last year I was deciphering pages from Liber Veritatis when I came across coordinates for Null Island, which is nothing but a computer...

James Phelps
Feb 251 min read
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Hexadecimal notations in computer chess
Chess computer programs use a method for finding its next move in chess based on chess notations that are the same as hexadecimal, which...

James Phelps
Feb 241 min read
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