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**Posted:** Wed May 17, 2006 1:51 am

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uprightcitizen2 · Guest

pissed

**Posted:** Wed May 17, 2006 2:37 am

aliendial

Chess without the trivia? I am so screwed. I kept having trouble figuring out which piece was which and which king I was supposed to checkmate. I NEEDED the trivia questions. And no way to go back and practice with the interface now. Sad

Just checking: is the one with the big cross on top the king or queen?

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3057/2255/1600/sol16of24.0.jpg
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3057/2255/1600/sol22of24.jpg

bishop and knight were obvious, so fleur-de-lis = rook?

**Posted:** Wed May 17, 2006 8:37 am

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cjknight06 · Boot Joined: 29 Apr 2006 Posts: 55 Location: my house

**Posted:** Wed May 17, 2006 9:57 am

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Bohh · Guest

I had a hard time with the chess too. Couldn't tell anything apart. I just went back and looked at your pictures though and the queen has an upside down triangle (or chalice, which is female) and the kind has the right side up triangle (or blade, which is male) All the other pieces are accounted for except for the rook so I guess your right that the fleur-de-lis is the rook.

**Posted:** Wed May 17, 2006 11:33 am

cipher_zero · Boot Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 17

So are we suppoed to checkmate the black or the white king??

**Posted:** Wed May 17, 2006 11:59 am

Jiroe

**Posted:** Wed May 17, 2006 12:00 pm

xnbomb

**Posted:** Wed May 17, 2006 1:40 pm

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stonefry · Boot Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Posts: 34

**Posted:** Wed May 17, 2006 3:18 pm

cipher_zero · Boot Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 17

Well I am gonna have to ask this again. Do we checkmate the black or the white King? I can seem to recall which king we had to checkmate and I am sure there were no instructions to the effect saying which king had to be checkmated right?

**Posted:** Wed May 17, 2006 3:26 pm

cjknight06 · Boot Joined: 29 Apr 2006 Posts: 55 Location: my house

Is There anywhere we can go to practice the chess challenges? the application on my google homepage no longer has the challenge icons.

**Posted:** Wed May 17, 2006 3:27 pm

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stonefry · Boot Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Posts: 34

**Posted:** Wed May 17, 2006 4:40 pm

Surly Teabag · Kilroy Joined: 17 May 2006 Posts: 1

**Posted:** Wed May 17, 2006 4:48 pm

guest007 · Guest

Well, I submitted my form and received the Thank You For Registering screen at 1:10 ET, apparently not quickly enough to get in.

They had serious problems with their servers that day and I think it screwed a lot of people. I wouldn't be surprised if they ended up not even having 10,000 finalists, but instead have a storeroom full of cryptexes (cryptices?) that they're too embarassed to give out after their mistake. There's probably a good chance the grand prize winner could have come from someone who got screwed out of their opportunity to compete in the final phase.

**Posted:** Wed May 17, 2006 5:08 pm

stonefry · Boot Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Posts: 34

**Posted:** Wed May 17, 2006 6:26 pm