Scioly Assassination 137: Checkmate

[Things2do]

"Butterfly" used to be the forum swear filter, and SOnerd registered a IRC channel on the topic, and of which Anomaly is a regular visitor... Don't visit it without being invited. They're not afraid to ban you...

If butterfly used to be the forum swear filter, we're probably the "butterflies" and sassy is calling us a rude name and censoring it.
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On the other....
:?:

Nah, s/he woulda used "pigeon," the current one...

[DatSciolyBoi]

"Butterfly" used to be the forum swear filter, and SOnerd registered a IRC channel on the topic, and of which Anomaly is a regular visitor... Don't visit it without being invited. They're not afraid to ban you...

if butterfly used to be the forum swear filter, we're probably the "butterflies" and sassy is calling us a rude name then censoring it
(^this is a joke don't take me seriously)
on the other hand, i find it somewhat amusing that sassy said attention skills are important, but didn't even have the attention skills to spell attention correctly

ALSO have we tried to do anything with INATORTO other than unscramble it? it's probably important, and since "rotation" hasn't given us any leads, my gut says there's something else here that we're missing. ngl, i saw it and thought OH WOW NATO?? then realized i've probably been studying too much for ap world :')

NATO as in 556 NATO rounds?

[Assassinator]

My bishop nearly kills jaggie34, but Here jumps in front of him and is killed instead. One officer down, 4 to go, but I need to remember that this highly unusual game doesn't necessarily end once I kill the king.

Two pieces are in danger again, but I'm only aiming for one this time. I take a moment to ponder chess itself. What an interesting game, played on a bunch of squares in a squared pattern. My next move is crystal clear to me, and I wonder if everyone else knows what it will be yet.

[CookiePie1]

crystal might refer to someone who does rocks&minerals. There is a member named Crystal, but they have 0 posts so im not sure if that's what we're looking for.

[lindsmaurer]

Wait.... why was Here killed?

[jaggie34]

New sig: "mistakes, even on the 2nd move, can kill you"

[jimmy-bond]

Crystal could refer to TCS's school

[DatSciolyBoi]

My bishop nearly kills jaggie34, but Here jumps in front of him and is killed instead. One officer down, 4 to go, but I need to remember that this highly unusual game doesn't necessarily end once I kill the king.

Two pieces are in danger again, but I'm only aiming for one this time. I take a moment to ponder chess itself. What an interesting game, played on a bunch of squares in a squared pattern. My next move is crystal clear to me, and I wonder if everyone else knows what it will be yet.

Chess programs will "ponder" their opponents move. It's like calculating all possible moves of the opponent and then forming a response to combat them.

[jaggie34]

Crystal could refer to TCS's school

If we're going on the assumption that there is a real chessboard this is being played on, it would make sense that the bishop is in danger. Chi would also make sense bc of chi-squared. Due to those reasons and the fact that crystal could refer to TCS's school, I protect TheChiScientist

[JoeyC]

New sig: "mistakes, even on the 2nd move, can kill you"

Aka a fool’s mate