A Knights Tour

Sorry for the delayed post. The last two days I have been swallowed up trying to get a head start on the letter squares. The pieces fit together in only 9-12 different ways, so the choices can be narrowed down. I don't think this is an anagram. My hunch is that I am going to have to follow moves from a particular game. Which game, you might ask. Right now there is only one known important game. Steinitz v. Bardeleben. I've tried following all moves, white only moves, black only moves, and knight only moves. There are hundreds of combinations and since there are so many missing squares, there isn't a definable way to tell if any of them are valid. Of course, some can be eliminated due to letter sequence, but others cannot. I posted some of my results to the forum for feedback. I need a rest.

Letter Squares

It's time to start putting the letter squares together. "Casual Observer" pointed out that some of the letters are forward and some are backward. Dylan created a grid using only the forward letters as one option of fitting the pieces together. Good job. The whole forum is now anagraming those letters, including me. Still, I think that my time might be better spent figuring out all the options for laying out the chessboard. The options are few, considering the size, color, and shapes of the known pieces. Must anagram this before anyone else does!

"Its off to work we go"!

What about this HEIGH-HO? I wonder if Heigh-Ho refers to the 7 dwarfs, I AM THE GREATEST refers to Ali, and SPACE CADET? Hey, I found that phrase used by an old TV show character Tom Corbet.

Xavier is mysterious. He seems to be monitoring activity in the chateau somehow. I bet he has a hidden room in the basement that he has access to without Peter knowing. Could it be that the person who met Natalie was not Xavier. How did we miss that. I for one thought the one in the warehouse was another mysterious person. Wrong. The one who met Natalie was the newbie. The one in the warehouse was Xavier. I hope I'm not the only one who was confused by Natalie's blog.

I need a hair cut

Cheers to bruttium! The clip provided has the exact rift that is contained in the tooth. Rossini will roll over if he saw our discussions. Vooch is adamant that "Un petit train de plaisir comicque-imitatif" is the rift. Is he joking? The menu came out today. Still working HIDEOUS and HEIGH-HO.

Thanks to Keeper for getting an anagram solve to HIDEOUS that tied to the roated Nude In Red. Maybe this is it?...

Hearts a Fire

Someone put a hex on me this weekend, and they did'nt have any magical powers. Marlene. Sound funny? Well you had better not 'listen' to Mike. I spent my whole weekend reading the forums and looking at what had already been found. Marlene posted a criptic hex message with an anagram in it that sent the board haywire with hex and octal coding. Vooch.com was the number one poster up to this point. He seemed to have it in the bag. Had better read his posts carefully.

New Forum Member!

Today I joined the forum. I tried to show some skill in my first post. Ha. But what I would later learn is that I did find something. It would be very useful later in the solution to the letter squares. But I would not be the one who would use it. "Keep track of where they came from" on the dentist's wall was crucial, but more on that later. More sites, what about those sites? SteinitzSkulls, SteinitzPress, SteinitzDDS? Anagrams, Ciphers, this is going to be tough.

Research

Thursday. I read through some of the pages on the moretosee site and followed the links to SteinitzPuzzlers, Mike, Natalie, and Peter. What was this thing? Was the mysterious puzzle real? Who in the world was Dogabert Steinitz? Little did I realize that just about all newcomers would be asking the same questions, as evidenced in dozens of posts on the puzzlers forum that would appear over the next few months.

It Begins

Today I ran across an ad while reviewing the news on one of the major network's web sites. I was courious so I followed the link. Now I don't normally follow ad links and have gone to extreme measures to block internet ads on my computer. I have a great fear of spyware and other malicious programs that track user information.