July: Chess Board Challenge

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

As the title says, this months solo challenge asks you to move an imaginary chess piece across an empty board by reading. Your little piece will change what chess piece it resembles and how it can move depending on the length of the book you'll move it with!



Duration: July 1-31, 2021

Registration:
Everyone can join in at any given time of the duration of the challenge, just by saying so in this topic. Registration will begin in the last week of June.

Rules:
1) Read books to move your imaginary chess piece across the board to reach the other side. Everybody starts off the board.
2) Any book counts as long as it's finished in May.
3) How many fields you can move and in which direction(s) depends on the length of the book you finish.
4) Make a post with the empty chessboard image in this topic at the beginning of the challenge. Edit that post for each book you finish with a) where your little chess piece is now and b) add the books you read to move it there as a list below with their pages.
5) Have fun!


Chess board link: https://i.ibb.co/2q8gSLh/empty-chessb...

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I'm aware of the fact that the rules of movement for the chess pieces in our challenge don't reflect the actual capacities of the pieces in chess. But I didn't want this to be too easy, after all. ;-)

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

Participants:

Auntie Terror
Blobbie!
Noor
Naomi
Sophie
Mahreen

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

Example Post for rule 4) with three updates:



Book list:
move 1: The Hill We Climb - Den Hügel hinauf - 64 pages - pawn
move 2: A Darker Shade of Magic - 384 pages - bishop
move 3: Stardust - 248 pages - pawn

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

Hello everybody,

the July-challenge is open for registration from now on. This being a solo-challenge, you can join in at any given time, just by commenting here :-)

[stu , in charge of BOTM]

I’ll join!, I guess!

[[deleted user]]

I'll give it a go!

Is it just one chess piece for the whole month (like once you get to the end you've completed the challenge)? Or do you restart with a new piece once you get to the end?

[nαомι]

I'll join!

How do you edit the chessboard image?

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

@Noor: It's one chess piece you move - but if you know you'll be finished too soon, you could start with a second piece (or more) of you like :-) Just use a second colour/symbol for the other piece's moves.

@Naomi: You save the blank version to your device, edit in where your piece moved to, upload it to imgbb or some place and link it in your post :-) Hope that helps :-)

Welcome to the challenge, everyone!

[nαомι]

thanks!

[●tk●]

Can I join?

[Mahreen]

I want to join

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

Hello everyone,

sorry for being such an absent challenge mod in June.
Welcome to the challenge, all!

I'll update everything tomorrow evening and promise to be more present in July!

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

So, all participants are on the list - though everyone else is welcome to join at any point still.

Ready, steady, chess!

[stu , in charge of BOTM]

Book List:
Move 1: UnOrdinary, Season 1 - 155 Pages - Pawn
Move 2: Cinderella Is Dead - 400 Pages - Bishop
Move 3: Prince Caspian - 240 Pages - Pawn
Move 4: The Wicked King - 336 Pages - Knight
Move 5: The Poet X - 368 Pages - Bishop
Move 6: Aru Shah and the End of Time - 355 Pages - Bishop
Move 7: The Heart of Betrayal - 473 Pages - Bishop
Move 8: Ruin and Rising - 422 Pages - Bishop

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

Yay! Congrats on beating your slump, Blobbie! ;-)

[stu , in charge of BOTM]

Auntie Terror wrote: "Yay! Congrats on beating your slump, Blobbie! ;-)"

Thanks! :)

[[deleted user]]

Book list:
move 1: Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition - 260 pages - knight
move 2: Pet - 208 pages - pawn
move 3: The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides - 335 pages- knight
move 4: I, Claudius: from the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius - 472 pages - bishop
move 5: Cemetery Boys - 352 pages - bishop
move 6: Romeo and Juliet - 396 pages - bishop
move 7: Gearbreakers - 416 pages - bishop
move 8: Persuasion - 249 - pawn
move 9: The Metamorphosis - pawn
move 10: The Great Gatsby - pawn
move 11: Long Bright River - bishop
move 12: Frankenstein: The 1818 Text - knight
move 13: The Hunger Games - bishop

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

@Noor: if the picture doesn't work for you, I can upload another one. Just let me know :-)

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

Booklist:
move 1: Die unendliche Geschichte - 475 pages - bishop
move 2: Der Freund Des Todes Erzählungen - 155 pages - pawn
move 3: Raumfahrer - 288 pages - knight
move 4: Der Tag, an dem Papa ein heikles Gespräch führen wollte: Ein aufklärendes Vorlesebuch für Kinder ab 5 - 78 pages - pawn
move 5: Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit - 448 pages - bishop
move 6: Golem und Dschinn - 623 pages - rook

Finished just before midnight - so I actually got to complete the challenge after all!

[[deleted user]]

Auntie Terror wrote: "@Noor: if the picture doesn't work for you, I can upload another one. Just let me know :-)"

The picture is fine I just can't upload the edited one from my end :/ The image address surpasses the character limit lmao so I have to find a way to get the same image with a shorter link

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

@Noor: That's an... interesting problem ^^' I use imgbb - that seems to work okay.

[[deleted user]]

Auntie Terror wrote: "@Noor: That's an... interesting problem ^^' I use imgbb - that seems to work okay."

I tried it. Can you see the image on goodreads? It says img error for me

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

No, sadly not.
If you're using their provided link html link, try removing the referral part so that you only have the img src bit itself. And also make sure you get all the "" in place.
Sometimes Goodreads seems to be weird about things directing off of Goodreads.

[[deleted user]]

Auntie Terror wrote: "No, sadly not.
If you're using their provided link html link, try removing the referral part so that you only have the img src bit itself. And also make sure you get all the "" in place.
Sometimes..."

I think it worked now, thanks :)

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

Hah! I see Noor is going for a second round already! Congratulations on your first one!

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

Wow! everyone, aside from myself, seems to be going for 2nd or 3rd rounds! That's so impressive - I've no idea where you guys take the time from.

[[deleted user]]

Auntie Terror wrote: "Wow! everyone, aside from myself, seems to be going for 2nd or 3rd rounds! That's so impressive - I've no idea where you guys take the time from."

The secret for me is procrastinating on everything else, so reading this much is definitely not a good thing lmaoo

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

That is something of a relief to hear, Noor ^^'

So, the challenge is over. I'll leave it open until August 2nd so anyone can still update final chess moves they didn't get around to posting yet.

As far as I can see, Noor definitely rocked this challenge the hardest, with Blobbie close behind. Congratulations to your impressive runs!