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[Update] Keir Jones <Feb. 21>
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Sylvia
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[Update] Keir Jones <Feb. 21>
Auto Update leads to new directory http://www.keirjones.co.uk/Qc6/

http://www.keirjones.co.uk/ipcressfile/


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21/02: Auto update

White to play

KJ not logged in for 62hrs+ Auto update.


RothkoWoofed in chat said
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Queen moves to c6 so:
http://www.keirjones.co.uk/Qc6/

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:08 pm
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carmenmiranda
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Should we post the photos of the chess moves you get when you keep clicking on the image?

Quote:
You have made a grave mistake by sending that piece to her.
I see not that you are not an adversary to be respected. You are
Nothing more then a Squealer, so squeal little piggy.
M.G.


PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:25 pm
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Chramey
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Chess

I know nothing about chess.

PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:25 pm
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UnimportantHero
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I love chess puzzles. Classics.

But I do not think the chess moves between Keir and MG are necessarily all of the puzzle. They may well be a puzzle, but also look in the above quoted comment from MG at how some words are capitalized even though they are not at the beginning of a sentence. He does not do that in all of his comments, just that one.

PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:30 pm
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carmenmiranda
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This game was played online:

See here.

Anyone speak Russian?

Edited to shorten the link.- drizjr

PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:37 pm
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Shady
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So Melvin Geist is back in the picture?

PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:47 pm
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Sylvia
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The auto update supposedly set by Keir led us to a directory in the event something should happen to him so that we would learn the truth.

On Jan. 13, 2007 we find out that:
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13/01/07

Dear employee,
It has come to my attention that you have been accessing confidential files on company systems. This of course is unacceptable. You cover your tracks well little piggy, and I respect that. Being the fair gentleman I am, I thought that we could settle this matter over a nice game of chess? If you win I will allow you to disappear, slip away, vanish by your own means. If you lose you will vanish by our means. If you do not accept this gracious offer then I assure you, she will suffer.

M.G.


M.G. we can assume is Melvin Geist offers Keir an option to play or Eva suffers. However, if he loses he will disappear in what sounds like a not so good fashion. Keir must respect Eva a whole lot because he decides to play.

Then on February 1, 2007 we learn that:
Quote:
You have made a grave mistake by sending that piece to her.
I see not that you are not an adversary to be respected. You are
Nothing more then a Squealer, so squeal little piggy.
M.G.


This sounds like M.G. found out about the list that Keir sent Eva that showed where she shopped, etc..

Then on February 8, 2007 we get:
Quote:
Hello Mr Jones,
Yes I know all about you now. Specifically I know all about the data
You have stolen & are currently trying to sell to the highest bidder.
I like that; it's good to see you are an upstanding capitalist.
But your actions are only forcing us to bring our procedure forward.
So really you efforts are rather counter productive.
M.G.

M.G. found out about the Youkis Keir sold through ebay.

Then finally on February 16, 2007, Keir made the fatal move resulting in CHECKMATE by M.G. on February 18, 2007 and the death of Keir.
Quote:
CHECKMATE

Goodbye Keir.

It's also at this time the we can assume that Keir sent the message to Eva:
Quote:
Geist is waiting.


PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:59 pm
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WolfHawk
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Eeep!! I hope I didn't make a mess of things!!!!!! I played the chess game as though I was actually playing it (I like chess). I do have to admit however that I am not sure I was actually "playing." Some of my attempted moves didn't appear to take. I got the first message that appears earlier in this thread. Then, after another move I got this:

Quote:
Hello Mr Jones,
Yes I know all about you now. Specifically I know all about the data
You have stolen & are currently trying to sell to the highest bidder.
I like that; it's good to see you are an upstanding capitalist.
But your actions are only forcing us to bring our procedure forward.
So really you efforts are rather counter productive.
M.G.


Gulp, then I lost and got this:

Quote:
CHECKMATE

Goodbye Keir.


 Edit: Whew, Sylvia's post was entered while I was typing mine. Glad to see I wasn't really playing!!

PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:05 pm
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legioninfinity
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This game of chess is a classic...

It is a seven move win known as the Kostic Gambit, the white king is trapped behind a wall of his own making and cannot escape. It's like he was agoraphobic or something Wink
also called "Death by suffocation" and the Blackburne Shilling Gambit
as well as the "Oh My God" trap.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kostic_Gambit

The tactical blunder Keir made that cost him the game is when he takes the black pawn at e5 on his 4th move 27/01/07 which just happens to be the same day he sent the zipped email attachment to Eva which turned out to be that RFID record of her movements. thread here

This might suggest that the RFID readout was a trap, a sacrificial piece that Kenkon played to expose their Squealer and force him into the endgame. It certainly explains the comment by M.G on 01/02/07

What other significance it has - surely there must be more! - I can't think yet... is there a puzzle tied to this somehow? Silly question, there's always puzzle tied in somehow. Except when there isn't of course. AAAGGHH

EDIT: This page has Java that will walk you through the steps, but with a more traditional chessboard display.

Plus:
Quote:
I see not that you are not an adversary to be respected.
is this just the PM's working too hard?

And something random I just tripped over: Bora Kostic was born on 24 February 1887... had he not died in 1963 he would have been 120 years old this Saturday Razz

PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:50 pm
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Well... It looks like ol' Melvin Geist is involved in this story after all. I guess that Keir worked for Geist's company... Which was the company collecting data on Eva. Does that mean that Melvin Geist is in charge of KenKon?
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