And now for the third question from round 1, which harks back to the final ASCII decoding question from 2008. The actual answer is straightforward but the question is probably the shortest and most cryptic we've had in the competition to date...

Decode the Checkerboard Matrix

Data

01010100100101110110010111011111010011011001111001110100100011010110100110000111 0010000010001000011000011000110000100000100111100010000010011000011100101001101 001100001100010110010000010010010011011111000100101101001100110100010111011011111 0010000010101011011011111001000000100000100111010110000110011011001000001000101101 101000100110100111100111011111011011101001101001110110100110100111001011011111011011 01100111100110010010011010001000001001111001101110100001100010000010001100011001011 00011100111010110011010011011001000110000101110