After i read the final solution.. i was shocked.. Was that really that easy?

I can't believe how i went wrong.. I was more than sure that the key is to find a right chess game which was visualized by the image.

I found game between Henry Edward Bird vs Joseph Henry Blackburne from 1886

And all suggested that it is it!

• The first player was called Bird
• The second player was called Blackburne
• The game was started with Bird Opening
• The game is quite famous and it has a dedicated name "Bird without a Nest" - there is no nest in the picture
• The game has 17 moves - number of leaves in the picture
• The key move in the game was to capture White Bishop with the Black Knight - the same as in the picture
• The above capture was taken on F2 squere - exactly as in the picture
• The final move in the game includes chess motive called Phoenix Attack
• Leaves suggested knight moves (L shape)

And please tell me, that it is nothing about this game ...

If i could improve the puzzle, i would encrypt information about how to assign bits value e.g. outer collor yellow = 0, skinny = 0, somewhere in the image, so that this solution wasn't only about a pure luck and juggling with countless permutation.

Nevertheless, congratulation to the winner.

Again this has something to do with the 1886 Chess game that ended in 17 moves played by bird.  (17 leaves on the vine)


The game is called "Bird without a nest".