Chapter 27:

A schooling from Ryonosuke

En Passant Grandmaster Volume 7

Jochi began to scowl as he stared at the scorecard. "Orda, you idiot. The zombie losing was one thing, but you too? Tch, 50 lashes for you," he thought as he decided to initiate a trade on f8, starting by capturing the bishop there with his bishop.

Said bishop was promptly swept up by Ryonosuke's knight, prompting Jochi to change plans and move his queen out from enemy lines to d4. Ryonosuke gave pursuit with pawn to c5, sending Jochi's queen to c3. However, a push of the pawn to d4 allowed Jochi to escape the pursuit by capturing the pawn at c5 with his queen.

"Attraction at its finest. Now how much more will you make me labor for this win?" Ryonosuke thought as he scowled and captured the pawn at b2 with his rook.

"Oi, what's with that look for, bone bag? You're all getting wiped out by the New Empire of Mongolia! Check!" Jochi fumed as he slammed his queen down on b5.

Ryonosuke refused to make eye contact as he moved his bishop to d7 in annoyance.

"OI! Don't you dare look away! CHECK!" Jochi fumed once more as he slammed his queen down on e5.

"Ah, how I can't wait to refute him," Ryonosuke thought as he moved his bishop to e6.

And after Jochi moved his pawn to e4, he got said chance.

"Check. Ah, you're nothing but a primitive beast. Words will not stick with you," Ryonosuke scoffed as he captured the pawn at c2 with his rook.

Jochi seethed with fury at both the insult and the fact that he couldn't capture the rook, slowly sliding his king to d1 as he grinded his teeth together. Ryonosuke on the other hand calmly slid his queen to a8. Aggression once more got the better of Jochi as he took out the pawn at d4 with his queen, allowing Ryonosuke to advance his queen to a3. With little choice, Jochi moved his king to e1, allowing queen c1, check, forcing queen a8.

And thus the mate was set in motion as Ryonosuke advanced his pawn to b2. Jochi gave one more desperate check in the form of bishop b5, but bishop d7 ended the threat and aggression as Jochi was now forced to retreat his bishop to e2 for survival as thanks to his pawn reaching b1, Ryonosuke had a new queen on the board. All Jochi could do now was roar in frustration as he lunged his pawn to f4.

"Primitive to the end. Check," Ryonosuke scoffed as he captured the queen at d1 with his queen.

Jochi instantly captured said queen with his bishop, but after Ryonosuke moved his bishop to b5, all he could do was move his pawn to g4.

"And thus, you've been schooled in the art of chess. Oh, and for history, Mongolia never managed to besiege Japan ever. Checkmate," Ryonosuke huffed as he moved his queen to e4, winning the game.

Over at board 1, some minor action consisting of rook e1, rook f8, knight e2, bishop e4, b4, knight g2, rook g1, rook f2, knight d4, and c5 had gone down before blood was spilled once more in the form of b captures c5 and bishop captures c5. Pawn c3 and bishop d6 were the final moves to sneak in before Jad looked over to notice that Jochi lost, meaning Japan now lead 3-0, winning the match regardless of the board 1 result.

"Well that makes my load easier," Okisato thought as he eased up.

Jad however was enraged, his hand angrily clamping down on his horse skull mask, cracking it until eventually crushing it, causing it to crumble to dust and his helmet to fall to the ground with a metallic thud. Now the mysterious Genghis Jad's face was about to be revealed to all. Jad didn't seem phased by this, slowly lowering his hand, allowing all to see his face.

Even Okisato was shocked by the sight he saw. His mental image of Jad was that of a zit-faced scrawny nerd in his early to mid-twenties, but instead he was faced with a middle-aged European man with short dirty blonde hair and an unruly mustache.

Raymond took notice as well and strolled over as onlookers stared in silence. "And now, the mask is off. So what's your next play, Nikolai Robert Maximilian Freiherr von Ungern-Sternberg?"

The full game:

White: DSPCM Jochi Kahn (2571) Black: Ryonosuke Hobou (2415)

1. Nf3 Nf6

2. Nd4 e5

3. Nb3 a5

4. d4 a4

5. dxe5 axb3

6. exf6 Rxa2

7. Qd5 Rxa1

8. Qe4+ Be7

9. fxg7 Rg8

10. Qxh7 Rxg7