White Black
+10 -12
+ 8 - 7
- 6 +15
-11 - 2
+ 4 +19
+ 1
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bottom half
+3 - 7
+3 + 1
+4 -19
+5
+7
+7
+5The 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
not all the way there but it uses decimals in move representation.
"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. :|"
+10 ___ +08 -12 ___ -07 ___ ___ +15 -06 -02 -11 +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.
More knowledge to you.
+10 ___ +08 -12 ___ -07 ___ ___ +15 -06 -02 -11 +19 +04 +01 ___
+03 -07 +03 ___ +04 +01 ___ ___ -19 +05 ___ +07 ___ +07 ___ +05-28.092472, -52.419667; 5; brazil
51.3015, -3.0178; 17; england
52.1821, 20.9965; 18; poland
14.2981, 101.2189; 19; thailand
3.
7.
Maybe we add or subtract from 0 to get the numbers after the decimal?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Scholars...
Two pieces = '.' one piece is ','.
Each row contains a value to fill these blanks: _._ , _._
Pic is called base64
(upvote this so we can start a new subthread)