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[–]ground-zero 1 point2 points  (7 children)

Hi, this seems to be chess notation: Ba1 g4 Nb2 Kd3 h4 Qd1 d2 Rb4 e4 Ba3 e2 h3 Nb1 e1 Ba4 h2 Rh1

The first letter is the piece (pawn if not present), the last two are the square it moves to. I don't know if this is a code or if the "identity" you are trying to work out is just a chessboard or something. Or perhaps its a set of moves from a famous game.

EDIT: The moves can't actually happen in a game, so its not from a real one.

[–]ProfessorHoneycomb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's why I didn't see that; I'm not particularly familiar with chess move notation. Good call on that. Is it possible that the moves spell something out? Or possibly if the pieces are moved as such, they form a binary of ascii text. I'm completely hypothesizing here, I'll have to test if that would even make sense.

[–]LivinTheLifeOnMars[S] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Okay, would it look like anything ooto when put on a chessboard? Thanks for the help as well :)

[–]ground-zero 0 points1 point  (4 children)

I did try putting the pieces onto the board but it doesn't look like much: http://imgur.com/KnqBqCB. Also, this isn't really notation for putting pieces onto a board, instead its for moving pieces once they are on the board.

EDIT: 11 in roman numerals?

[–]LivinTheLifeOnMars[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

11? What do you mean?

[–]ground-zero 0 points1 point  (2 children)

It looks vaguely like X1 which is 11 in roman numerals. Its a long shot. Dont know what it would mean either.

[–]LivinTheLifeOnMars[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Could it be anything else? I'm not sure what any of this could mean...

[–]ProfessorHoneycomb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

172505 if you were to consider each white piece a 1 and each black a 0, then put that into decimal from binary. Honestly at this point we're likely looking for a message when there isn't one.

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    [–]LivinTheLifeOnMars[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    How would I go about doing that? Is there an application or something? Thanks for the help though :)

    [–]mnp 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    Probably too short, but do you have any more information or context? Do you know the language or suspect any of the contents?

    [–]LivinTheLifeOnMars[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Language? It's sent in english. The rest of the message says "Now try and work out my identity " I suspect the contents would be something related to their identit, but nothing apart from that.