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In a Soulslike looter shooter like Remnant 2, where procedurally generated levels, storylines, and sidequests serve as the crown jewel of its multiversal setting, its safe to say that there are plenty of rare weapons out there waiting for you to find themespecially by way of unconventional methods.

Perhaps a central example of this is the Royal Hunting Bow, which is rewarded exclusively to players who manage to best a strange, reserved NPC at a board game table.

Fear not if puzzles and mini-games arent your thing, however, as this reward is well worth the time investment considering how easy the encounter actually is.

The Postulants chess puzzle can be found in the Postulants Parlor, one of three possible levels that can be rolled with the Beatific Palace in Losomn. At the end of the parlor, you will find the titular Postulant waiting deviously at a small table.

Upon interacting with the Fae, the game begins. This is pretty much a match-three game of tic-tac-toe. On the board, both you and the Postulant each have three pieces and the objective is to simply be the first to line up three in a row. Both of you will take turns moving one piece to a space immediately next to it until this happens. Ultimately, they will eventually make a mistake, and you just need to be ready to strike once that moment arises.

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If you lose, you will get cursed and hopefully have some consumables on hand. If you win, you will receive 300 Scrap and a door behind the Postulant will open.

At this point, make your way back around your defeated enemy to that newly opened room to pick up the Royal Hunting Bow. They dont seem eager at all to move over a bit and let you through. Rude, I know.

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Heres thedescription, damage, critical hit chance, and other weapon stats of the Royal Hunting Bow inRemnant 2:

Since it is considered a standard Regular Long Gun, the Royal Hunting Bow doesnt have any built-in Weapon Mods and can be upgraded up to 20 times.

Ralston joined Dot Esports as a freelance writer in February 2023, and covers everything from VALORANT, Call of Duty, and Apex Legends, to NBA 2K and trending releases. His all-time favorite video games include NBA 2K11, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) and Halo 3. A class of 2020 alum of California State University, Long Beach, he graduated with a B.A. in Journalism and a minor in Finance.

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Have you ever wanted to play chess but didnt have anyone to play with? Now you can play against a virtual opponent using a real chess board thanks to this Raspberry Pi project put together by maker and developer Noah Davis. Not only does this Pico-powered chess-playing robot simulate having a real opponent, it brings your challenger to life by adding ChatGPT to throw insults at you while you play and uses Stockfish to cheat by optimizing its moves against you.

The project mainly uses ChatGPT to add dialogue using text-to-speech functionality. After all, who wants to play against a silent opponent when you could program them to be super sassy and toss out insults in the middle of your match?

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The Raspberry Pi team reached out to Davis to get some more information about how it works and published the details in a recent blog post. The board is fitted with an array of Hall effect sensors that determine where pieces are placed. The chess pieces have magnets on the bottom to trigger the sensors underneath. But this doesn't identify what the pieces are, so Davis wrote some code to track the position of every piece, from its starting to end position.

In addition to the magnets and sensor array, Davis created a robotic arm that can pick up pieces and move them. The arm position is transmitted to the Raspberry Pi Pico using a serial connection which is interpreted to process the next move position. LEDs installed on the side of the board signify whose turn it is.

The lights will illuminate blue on the side of whoevers turn it is to make a move. When its time for the virtual opponent to make a play, the Pi connects to an open-source chess-playing application called Stockfish. This is where the cheating comes into play. It uses Stockfish to plan the perfect move making it a more than difficult adversary.

If you want to see this Raspberry Pi project in action, you can check it out over at YouTube. There are plans to upload a new video with more details in the near future. In the meantime, you can find a behind-the-scenes look at its construction over at the official Raspberry Pi blog.

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This will include better defining executive responsibilities and more regular meetings between regulators and the non-ASX directors of the separate clearing and settlement boards. The law firms report requested by the RBA in December also called for additional corporate governance changes, especially around the formal documentation of meetings and decisions.

The report acknowledges ASX has made many important changes to managing conflicts of interest in the past couple of years, including responses to an RBA review on standards in 2021. The ASX said that the majority of the 13 recommendations will be made in next three months.

The ASXs critics argue that the company prioritised its future revenue sources by seeking to control market data generated by CHESS, instead of finding the most reliable clearing and settlement system for the broader market. This has led to calls for ASX to be stripped of its clearing and settlement functions and for these to be placed into a new utility.

At a parliamentary inquiry in February, ASIC chairman Joe Longo said the ASX may have gone astray by putting the interests of its shareholders over the national interest, while Computershare said the market operator had used the project to encroach onto services provided by share registries, and suggested it may have breached its obligations by mismanaging conflicts.

But overall, Herbert Smith Freehills said, in a report published on Friday, that having regard to the enhancements which have been put in place [mostly in 2022], the existing framework for conflict identification and management within the ASX group is sophisticated and consistent with the framework we would expect from a listed group of the complexity and scope of potential conflicting operations of the ASX group.

However, it added it had identified a number of recommendations as to further improvements which could be made to identify and manage the conflicts between the commercial interests of the ASX group and the general licence obligations of ASX Clear and ASX Settlement, in relation to current CHESS and CHESS replacement.

These include updating the conflict management policy to include guidance on intra-group conflicts, and for the document, and charter for the separate clearing and settlement boards.

It called for ASX to improve staff training, including bolstering the group conflicts curriculum more specifically and in more detail to focus on identifying and managing intra-group conflicts.

Subject to the RBAs and ASICs views, it also wants to increase the frequency of separate meetings between the non-ASX group directors sitting on the clearing and settlement entities boards to meet with the regulators to twice a year rather than once.

On Friday, ASX chairman Damian Roche said the report demonstrates that improvements weve made to governance are making a difference. We need to be transparent about the work were doing, and Im hopeful this report gives further confidence to our stakeholders that we have appropriate conflict management arrangements in place.

The RBA is expected to release a new statement whether the ASX is meeting financial stability standards that seek to ensure it conducts its clearing and settlement functions in a way that promotes overall stability in the financial system at the end of September. The ASX reports full-year profits on August 17, where the costs of regulatory pressure after the CHESS debacle will remain an issue for investors.

ASIC and the ASX have proposed to create a new advisory group on clearing and settlement to boost stakeholder engagement for the new CHESS replacement project. The first roundtable of the new group will take place next week.

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The Bright Minds RVA Chess Classes and Tournament for Richmond area teens will take place Aug. 7 through 17 at the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, 122 W. Leigh St.

The classes, Monday through Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., seek to teach students of all experience levels the fundamentals of chess as they participate in classes and a friendly competition tournament. The deadline to enroll is July 28.

Created in 2020 and officially launched in 2021, Bright Minds RVA was formed by Bernice Travers, president of the Bernice E. Travers Foundation, and Fleming E. Samuels, a former Richmond Public Schools administrator and creator of multiple chess clubs for local schools.

Mr. Samuels will be the instructor during the two-week training in which participants, ages 14 to 16, will be placed in beginner, intermediate and advanced sections based on their experience. Participants will be trained to compete in the RVA City-Wide Scholastic Chess Tournament in which cash prizes and trophies will be presented, according to the event organizers.

Classes will culminate in a tournament that will award first, second and third place finishers with monetary prizes and trophies for each section. At the end of the two-week period a ceremony and reception will celebrate the achievements of each student.

All classes are free and open to enrolled public school students. Lunch and snacks will be provided.

For more information, please call (804) 814-4434 or email brightmindschessclub@gmail.

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Challenger GM Lei Tingjie overpowered the defending champion Ju Wenjun in game five of the 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship to take a 3-2 lead with just one game to go before the match switches from Shanghai to her home city of Chongqing.

Game six, when Ju will have the white pieces, starts on Wednesday, July 12, at 3:00 a.m. ET / 09:00 CEST.

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The 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship had seen intense battles where the shield was always the equal of the sword, but in game five, we finally got a breakthrough.

Ju entered the venue before game five with her second, 2708-rated Indian GM Pentala Harikrishna.

This time Lei decided to switch from the Ruy Lopez she played in her first two games with White to the Italian, with 3.Bc4, but it was Ju who seemed to spring the first small surprise by heading for a line that then world champion Magnus Carlsen played against his challenger GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in the final game of their 2021 match.

Soon, however, it was Lei who was taking control after Ju missed a chance for sharp counterplay in the center with 12...d5.

Her alternative 12...Bd7!? was passive, and when she did go for a bold pawn push, 14...c5!?, she had serious doubts about it herself.

"Its too risky, and after that maybe this structure is just very bad for Black," said Ju, who felt she could just have tried to "hold" the position.

It was another intense, strategic struggle, however, with the first clear mistake perhaps only coming when Ju responded to 21.b4! by capturing the pawn.

It was much safer to play 21...Bd6! and, if Lei pushed her pawn to b5, the closed position would have given Black excellent chances of holding on.

In the game, Lei soon did have a dream structure, with control of the d-file and especially the d5-square. Ju could do little but wait and hope that when the time came, she'd be able to parry the potential a4-a5 or f2-f4 pawn breaks.

Lei didn't feel she was clearly winning, commenting: "It was a long game and somehow I thought probably my opponent can defend this endgame, but after the opening I have no risk, so I just wanted to continue the game."

Ju did the job of waiting well, but meeting 40.h4 with 40...h5!? was a very double-edged decision on the time-control move.

This is where Lei seized the opportunity to play the flexibleand powerful41.Bd2!, with the bishop now ready to support either a5 or f4. Lei felt 41...Rb8!? was a mistake by her opponent since it boosted 42.f4!

This now came with the additional kick of 42...exf4 43.Bxf4, hitting the rook on b8. On the other hand, it's the computer's top move, since e.g. 41...Qf7 gets hit from the other side with 42.a5!

After 43...Rb7 44.Qe2! the weakness of the h5-pawn came back to haunt Black, with 44...g6!? being no better than giving up the pawn since it ran into 45.e5!

It felt as though it dawned on Ju only at this point that she was in very deep trouble since she spent 23 minutes on 45...Qa8, leaving herself just five minutes to try and pose some problems for her opponent. Lei suggested 45...Rd7! in the post-game press conference, and that does seem to put up much more resistance, though the position would remain miserableand likely lost against best playfor Black.

Lei quickly stopped any danger down the a8-h1 diagonal with 46.Qf3! and played the remainder of the game perfectly. There were some moves that got higher computer evaluations, but her strategy of exchanging off queens into a winning endgame worked perfectly, leaving Ju out of options.

The bishop on d8 can't be defended, since 56...Ke7 would run into 57.Bg5+, losing the bishop on the next move. Ju, therefore, gave it up with 56...Rxb6 57.Rxd8+ Ke7 58.Rc8 Rxe6+, at least picking up White's key pawns, but being a piece down left the world champion with no realistic hopes of saving the game.

Ju played on for a while, perhaps more so to come to terms with the loss, before finally conceding her opponent the win.

That result saw Lei take over as the number-two on the women's live rating list.

GM Rafael Leitao has annotated the game below.

Afterward, Lei talked about how being unable to play much chess during the pandemic had done her no harm.

"As a professional chess player, if you dont have tournaments to play, or you want to chase some goals, then just stay at home and train! There is nothing Im worried about in my life, so I can just focus on chess totally."

So after the mutual frustration of four draws, the ice has finally cracked. Ju now needs to hit back if she's going to retain her title, which should ensure excitement in the games ahead.

Ju has just one more game in her hometown of Shanghai when she has the white pieces in game six on Wednesday. Can she bounce back straight away, or can Lei use her momentum to go into the mid-match break with a two-point lead?

The 2023 FIDE Women's World Championship (FWWC) is the most important women's over-the-board event of the year. The defending women's world champion, GM Ju Wenjun, faces the challenger, GM Lei Tingjie, to see who will be crowned world champion. The championship started on July 5 and boasts a 500,000 prize fund.

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