Prologue

In Budapest Hungary, the biannual Chess Olympics are currently underway. After three rounds of play, both Japan's men's team, and Japan's women's team have won all three of their matches thus far. The women's team even has a perfect win streak, however, they now find said streak under threat as their next opponent is top seed, United States of America. The men also find their win streak in jeopardy as they're set to face tournament favorites, India. Though both teams just emerged from hard-fought victories in the third round, they now find themselves pitted against some of their most formidable foes yet...