Immortal

PeterS · Post by **PeterS** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 12:06 pm

Ok, I see a stream of 608 bits, but I don't know what to do with it.
Is it true, that these 608 bits represent some sort of chessboard notation?
Do I have to search for the inventor after I found out what the chess constellation looks like?

I think I need some help here

karma-fusebox · Post by **karma-fusebox** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 3:17 am

me too.

additionally, i have no idea why you are talking about chess.

DanielG · Post by **DanielG** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:00 am

In what format do we have to give the name?

first letter, last name
last name, first letter
full name
reversed full name

PeterS · Post by **PeterS** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:09 am

karma-fusebox wrote:me too.

additionally, i have no idea why you are talking about chess.

mmm, I don't know. It was just the first thing which came to my mind after I read 'grandmaster'.

Maybe I should try a different approach.

CoreEvil · Post by **CoreEvil** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:07 am

PeterS wrote:
karma-fusebox wrote:me too.

additionally, i have no idea why you are talking about chess.
mmm, I don't know. It was just the first thing which came to my mind after I read 'grandmaster'.

Maybe I should try a different approach.

He never said that you're necessarily in the wrong direction, he just said that he has no idea why you're talking about chess.

karma-fusebox · Post by **karma-fusebox** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:04 pm

yep, dont get me wrong - i have generally no idea on this one. any approach (even with chess) is more than i have right now.

maybe the data is some kind of image or music file or .. yeah, chess constellation, whatever. the characters are base64-like, but decoding results in even more garbage.

could someone at least tell us what kind of "art" its all about?

megabreit · Post by **megabreit** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:13 pm

@DanielG: The name consists of two space-separated words.

@karma: What's look like garbage might look different if you change your point of view

Don't focus to much on art as usually known; like paintings etc. Take it more generally.

lukas · Post by **lukas** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 3:25 pm

Hmmm. Pretty sure that Base64 is the right way. Any hint which type of binary file it results? Do I need Linux?

megabreit · Post by **megabreit** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 10:24 pm

The challenge is OS independent. The binary is a hint on how to find the solution. It's not the solution itself.

laz0r · Post by **laz0r** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 10:33 pm

Any more hints? I can't get it at all (tried decoding it and got mostly non-ASCII values; tried backwards, swapping letters, uppercase to lowercase)

error_macro · Post by **error_macro** » Tue Aug 03, 2010 4:54 am

ok, i've been thinking all day about that challenge. I got some binary file and I'm sure the challenge is connected to chess somehow. Maybe it's a save file for some chess game, but there're billions of them! Could someone give me a hint, please?

rmplpmpl · Post by **rmplpmpl** » Tue Aug 03, 2010 10:17 am

error_macro wrote:ok, i've been thinking all day about that challenge. I got some binary file and I'm sure the challenge is connected to chess somehow. Maybe it's a save file for some chess game, but there're billions of them! Could someone give me a hint, please?

It's no save game, you might want to check out the file itself again

error_macro · Post by **error_macro** » Tue Aug 03, 2010 11:48 am

Damn I got it! stupid me. Thanks for the hint. I looked at it earlier but didn't notice.

error_macro · Post by **error_macro** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 1:31 pm

Finally solved it. The last part of challenge (finding the name) was hard as hell, but I found one man, who helped me. Even almighty google couldn't. Nice challenge.

m!nus · Post by **m!nus** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 12:37 pm

I can't seem to find a list with names. Putting it into google gave only <10 results, useless ones.
I found a site that seems to have what i need but for 29 pounds....

i'm about to bruteforce this shit with all grandmasters i can find...