Spirals - mostly nothing (small indication of order)
Poem by coinartist - nothing
Blue squares - nothing
Flames on chess board - nothing
Phoenix spikes - nothing
Dove tail - nothing
Weird queen bottom - nothing
Melting queen - nothing
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.