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I saved the picture from the browser and used Perl and GD to do the real work. use GD::Image; $filename="~/Downloads/images/stars.php.png"; my $image = GD::Image->newFromPng($filename); my ($height, $width) = $image->getBounds; for ($x=8;$x<=$width;$x=$x+16) { $summe=0; $z=7; for ($y=8;$y<...

The keyword immortal was a bit misleading for me and I was a bit disappointed that this game was just a simul. exhibition and not a "real" fight between masters.
Anyway, it is a nice challenge and especially I like the idea with base64 which somehow matches so well to chess

First I wrote an emulation in Java for this. This worked very fine ... until about n=38 then it ran into "out of merror ..." due to too many bacteria objects.

Should have thought about it a few minutes before start coding. BigInteger did it easily then.

I'm a bit confused. The "art" the challenge is about does know one well known so called "Immortal ..." which is obviously not the solution. (Not at least because that artwork is by far older than the first appearance of grandmasters). So is the keyword immortal a hint or is it ju...