Mimoko's birthday [Special]

"Welcome back! I'm Kisha Shinbum and today ole Mario's back for a birthday special! Er, whose birthday we celebrating?"

"Mimoko's since today is July 23rd in real life."

"Oh, good, good... So where's Mimoko?"

"Celebrating with her family. But it is worth mentioning that her birthday actually does take place before Chapter 1 of the story."

"Uh, Chapter what?"

"Sorry, I'll ease up on the 4th wall breaking. But today I felt I'd talk about birthdays. It turns out, many characters in the series share their birthdays with famous chess players. Most were intentional like Mimoko sharing her birthday with Judit Polgár, but there were also many that were unintentional and that I found out about only later. So today, I decided to share all the chess birthdays in the series thus far, starting with..."

Intentional birthdays:

These are characters who I intentionally had share their birthdays with famous chess players.

Mimoko- Judit Polgár

Okisato- Adolf Anderssen

Yuusuke- Wilhelm Steinitz

Utami- Nona Gaprindashvili

Peter- Paul Morphy

Gyro- Gunnar Gundersen

Hagemi- Koneru Humpy

Svetlana- Aleksandra Goryachkin

Daria- Hou Yifan

Ichimitsu- Magnus Carlsen

Safumi- Kateryna Lagno

Skaberghast- Mikhail Tal

Xiu- Ju Wenjun

Ian- Garry Kasperov

Wiley- Bobby Fischer

These next ones were also intentional but the people they were based off weren't career chess players, though did play chess from time to time:

Grigori- Ivan the terrible

Manny- Napoleon Bonaparte

Maida- Albert Einstein

Unintentional birthdays:

These are the characters who I didn't intend to have share their birthdays with any famous chess player, and ended up doing so by sheer coincidence.

Zanni- Borris Spasky

Ai- Faustino Oro

Carol- Levon Aronian

Prussian Tony- Fabiano Caruana

There's probably many others and likely to be more to come, but those were the ones I just so happened to find out about.

"Guess that means we might be doing more interviews like this. Welp, that's all for now."