[jafhdjkashdfj]

Thailand, https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMNGiEkdfeZKK5uus5iOmt-...

Pic is called base64

(upvote this so we can start a new subthread)

[jat255]

Numbers on top half of board

  White     Black
  +10       -12
  + 8       - 7
  - 6       +15
  -11       - 2
  + 4       +19
            + 1
  --------------
  bottom half 
  +3        - 7
  +3        + 1
  +4        -19 
  +5        
  +7        
  +7        
  +5

[XaspR8d]

You're overthinking it.

The number of spaces in each row matches the lengths of something you've seen.

Answer is posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13476200

[jobead]

ok, so what's the final set of coordinates then? searching that on google maps and putting the center point into savethedate.foo did not work.

[kaoD]

They broke our expectations. I put in coordinates too, but it's just "Shoreline Amphitheatre".

[XaspR8d]

Yeah I tried that too! It bucks the trend and just wants you to enter the name.

[espeed]

"you" are black (have been capturing white pieces)...what legal moves could have led to that position?

[jat255]

How dare you assume my ethnicity! /s

[dzolvd]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICCF_numeric_notation

not all the way there but it uses decimals in move representation.

[jafhdjkashdfj]

Shoreline Amphitheatre

"Answer to last puzzle:

You can put the names of the countries into the spaces on the board and add/subtract from letter values appropriately.

This gives you:

L IN E

THEATRE

SHO RE

AM P H I

(Shoreline Amphitheatre)

5/17, 5/18, 5/19 are the dates of Google I/O, at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA. :|"

[che_shirecat]

Google IO on 5/18-20th, announced 1/12, launchDate in site JS is 2017-01-13T07:00:00-08

[kernald]

The description ("V2hlcmUgaGF2ZSB5b3UgYmVlbj8") translates to "Where have you been?"

[xur17]

Here are the numbers written out in text:

+10 ___ +08 -12 ___ -07 ___ ___ [phone] +19 +04 +01 ___

+03 -07 +03 ___ +04 +01 ___ ___ -19 +05 ___ +07 ___ +07 ___ +05

edit: copy and paste it into a fixed width text editor - the formatting is getting messed up here.

[amingilani]

Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

More knowledge to you.

  +10 ___ +08 -12 ___ -07 ___ ___ [phone] +19 +04 +01 ___
  +03 -07 +03 ___ +04 +01 ___ ___ -19 +05 ___ +07 ___ +07 ___ +05

[yggda]

The account belongs to a J Polgar reference to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polgár

[dkonofalski]

Conversion of the filename is "Where have you been?"

[sja]

Collecting all the "places we've been" by named place, integer given to that place, and the lat/long solution

-28.092472, -52.419667; 5; brazil

51.3015, -3.0178; 17; england

52.1821, 20.9965; 18; poland

14.2981, 101.2189; 19; thailand

[jat255]

5, 17, 18, 19, numerically

[typicalbender]

Do the number of pawns correspond to the puzzle number?

[jobead]

do these somehow correspond to chess move notation?

[dkonofalski]

Note the pawns on the left hand side of each color, maybe?

3.

7.

Maybe we add or subtract from 0 to get the numbers after the decimal?

[batrofin]

Well, we've been to brazil, england, poland, and thailand so far?

[ltowel]

place the 3 black pawns and 7 white pawns to add to the appropriate numbers?

[jat255]

My guess would be black/white corresponds to lat/long? (or vice versa)

[caffeineninja]

Something to think about: chess notation is 1-8 and a-f., with a1 on the bottom left and h8 on the upper right.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Scholars...

[dkonofalski]

If we use chess notation, could that give us a lat/long using the special instructions from the last puzzle?

[siddarthd2919]

or maybe position the white rooks and black rooks in their spots to remove those numbers from the board?

[piker]

Like scrabble with the piece values? e.g. white rooks are -14 and 10?

[alejoriveralara]

Chess pieces sometimes have values assigned to them: Pawns: 1, knight/bishop: 3, rook: 5, queen: 9. Might help (?).

[abe_duarte]

Since the numbers appear where the pieces usually are I think this makes sense.

[Ruphin]

Note the remaining pieces on the board.

Two pieces = '.' one piece is ','.

Each row contains a value to fill these blanks: _._ , _._

[anotherturn]

good spot. Maybe all the space between, is a space?

[piker]

Where have you been? Black's in check so we must have just moved -- where from?

[piker]

I'm not sure it's possible to get to this position in chess from the starting point.

[HebrewToYou]

V2hlcmUgaGF2ZSB5b3UgYmVlbj8 --> "Where have you been?"

[hadriendavid]

$ echo V2hlcmUgaGF2ZSB5b3UgYmVlbj8 | base64 -d Where have you been?

[xur17]

File info decodes to: Where have you been?

[serkanyersen]

something to note. 7 white pawns and 3 black pawns on the left.

[siddarthd2919]

so far : 5 - Brazil, 17 - England, 18 - Poland, 19 - Thailand