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This puzzle contains errors, the author is working on fixing this! Sincere apologies for the incovinience!

Dear Puzzling SE Users,

Okay so the last time I tried to take over Puzzling SE I failed. Yes the mods were rescued. How Rubio managed to survive drowning, and Gareth survive being buried alive, I don't know. I generously gave them access to WiFi, so maybe they found a lifehack to avoiding death. Who knows. Anyways, I have a new plan! And it'll be ingenious ... of course, you'll have to figure out how I'll do it this time. Of course, I doubt you will be (but again Deusovi is free so maybe not) but I WILL TAKE OVER. And to mark my celebration of future events (I don't care if it doesn't make sense) I'm showing off my latest chess game! Hahahahahahahaahahaha hmmmmm

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Yours truly,
North.

Plaintext: [[WnQaHSVHRdsZaKD] {KvrIhJqzHZiOdnzlpvgoJ1vItjoCZmkdzxZHjqZhzioNvMzzlpvgoj0} [GroXGRsdowyFockZKGxkxnLvkmuboczyXNCgsDRkzkgxWYfowOxDyBGrsdowyfockZsomoKxnLVKmuBoCzyxncGsDRdrockwoZsOMoYbGROxgrSdomkcdvocKXnLvkmumKCdvocYXdrOckwoDebxYBEColsDgSCOpeXmdSyxYb] [OzwFoZalwEgnwksfvTDsuCegnwkSvaXxwjwflhawuw/HsofmkwXMFulagfSfVAxOzalwUSKldwkSfvTDSucvGwkfglmkwKsewXMFulaGfskSTgnw] [LwTcTxiwTghxstRPEijgthGteaprtujcrixdCLxIwMdg] {ChUrlvhtXdoWrgrWdOORqhvDuhGDvKhv} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 Nc6 4. d5 Nce7 5. Be3 Bg4 6. Nbd2 Bxf3 7. Nxf3 Nf6 8. Bb5+ Nd7 9. O-O c6 10. c4 a6 11. Ba4 b5 12. c5 bxa4 13. Qxa4 dxc5 14. Bxc5 cxd5 15. exd5 Nxd5 16. Bxf8 Kxf8 17. Qa3+ Qe7 18. Qxe7+ Nxe7 19. Rfe1 Rc8 20. Nxe5 Nc6 21. Nxd7+ Kg8

1-0 White wins by resignation

Hint:

Ave Caesar

Prince North Læraðr
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The gibberish can be decoded ...

... using the Caesar cipher. Each part between 2 brackets is using a different shift (25, 21, 10, 18, 15, 3 repectively). The decoded text looks like this (spaces added by me):

[xor bitwise table]
{pawn movement is equal to 1 any other piece movements are equal to 0}
[when white moves a pawn and black responds with a pawn movement or white moves a piece and black responds with the same piece or when white castles and black castles on the same turn or use bitwise function or]
[when white moves and black moves a different piece/pawn use function and if white castles and black does not use same function as above]
[when either side captures replace function with xor]
{zero is equal to dot all ones are dashes}

I tried to decode the moves ...

... using the information above (however, I have no idea what the first part is supposed to mean):

1. e4 e5 1 or 1 = 1
2. Nf3 d6 0 and 1 = 0
3. d4 Nc6 1 and 0 = 0
4. d5 Nce7 1 and 0 = 0
5. Be3 Bg4 0 or 0 = 0
6. Nbd2 Bxf3 0 xor 0 = 0
7. Nxf3 Nf6 0 xor 0 = 0
8. Bb5+ Nd7 0 and 0 = 0
9. O-O c6 0 and (as above) 1 = 0
10. c4 a6 1 or 1 = 1
11. Ba4 b5 0 and 1 = 0
12. c5 bxa4 1 xor 1 = 0
13. Qxa4 dxc5 0 xor 1 = 1
14. Bxc5 cxd5 0 xor 1 = 1
15. exd5 Nxd5 0 xor 1 = 1
16. Bxf8 Kxf8 0 xor 0 = 0
17. Qa3+ Qe7 0 or 0 = 0
18. Qxe7+ Nxe7 0 xor 0 = 0
19. Rfe1 Rc8 0 or 0 = 0
20. Nxe5 Nc6 0 xor 0 = 0
21. Nxd7+ Kg8 0 xor 0 = 0

This gives the following "Morse code":

-........-..---......

This is basically impossible to decode (assuming it is correct), because the letter separators are missing. The online tools didn't deliver anything, except of hundreds meaningless possible decodings.

Sleafar
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