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Mario Nakano 64

It's a me. I'm an aspiring light novel writer hoping to one day see my works in anime form. I hope that my works at least brighten up your day and give you something to look forward to.

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Apr 15, 2024

Author's Commentary #18:

Time to discuss Chapter 18: Pawn and two moves odds.
First off, let's discuss odds chess. Odds are a form of handicaps players might implement to make games more interesting and/or give weaker players a better chance of beating them. The odds used for this chapter, pawn and two moves, means white gets to start by making two moves in a row and black is down their f-pawn. As for why it's always the f-pawn, removing any other pawn can actually give the player an advantage by opening up a file for a rook if it's the a- pawn or h-pawn, the diagonals for the bishop if it's the b-pawn or g-pawn, the diagonals for the queen if its the c-pawn or e-pawn (though Two pawns odds removes the c-pawn in addition to the f-pawn), and removing the d-pawn opens the file for the queen and a diagonal for a bishop. Removing the f-pawn offers no such advantage and instead leaves the king vulnerable to an attack diagonally, which is exactly what happened in this game.
or the queen and/or a diagonal for a bishop and queen.

As for the DESPER, it factors in how disadvantaged the player with the odds is, and lessens the severity of the punishment accordingly. Had Nyoan implemented queen and move odds, Okisato wouldn't have died if he lost. However, the punishment for the player that isn't handicapped are never lessened regardless of the odds implemented.

Odds can only be triggered if the one activating the DESPER, or the person the DESPER holder activated their DESPER for, is rated 1000 points lower than their opponent. This means that DESPER holders that are higher-rated than their opponent can't implement odds both for their opponent, or themself. Naturally, the higher-rated opponent can simply refuse to participate which would deactivate the DESPER for the day.

Now onto the game itself. This was very fun to write mainly due to the fact that Okisato also had to avoid losing his queen to prevent Maida from dying. The concept of trapping people in pieces is a relatively new discovery for the Desperado league, with only Nyoan and a few others being aware of it. However, in order to force someone to be trapped in a piece, the victim must be rated 500 points lower than the one who activates the DESPER, and can only be placed within a piece if they are restrained beforehand and if the the Desperado playing is rated the same as or lower than their opponent.

Getting back to the game, Nyoan was completely outwitted by Okisato. She did try to attack Maida a couple of times, but since Maida was in a queen, Okisato could defend her much easier than if she was in a pawn.

That's all for this commentary. I hope you enjoyed it.

En Passant Grandmaster

Chapter:18

Apr 15, 2024

Author's Commentary #17:

This time, we're discussing Chapter 17: Stalker.
And what better topic to discuss than the stalker herself, Nyoan Nyakuoji, nya. First off, she ends her sentences with "nya". Second, she gained her cat ears and cat tail, which are both real, thanks to the DESPER.

若王子如杏 (Nyakuoji Nyoan) is how her name is spelled in kanji. Her first name, 如杏, can mean "similar to" and "apricot" as well as "inferior". Her last name,
若王子, can translate to "immature", "monarch", and "junior". I mainly chose Nyakuoji as her last name due to it having "nya" in it. The school Nyoan mentioned she was from, Mimineko gakuin, is also a pun on the word, nekomimi which means cat ears.
(If I made any mistakes with the translations, feel free to correct me).

Her birthday is February 22nd. The reason for that is that it's Japan's cat day and can be read as an abbreviation for "nyan nyan nyan".

Her favorite piece is the knight since like a cat, since it's movement is the closest to resembling that of a cat's. She's also one of the few characters to have some meaning behind her rating. Originally, it was 800, but I increased it to 900 to make reference to the fact that cat's are said to have "9 lives". The buff also makes her slightly more intimidating, but unlike Gyro, the buff was more so to make the cat reference rather than make her more intimidating.

That's all for this commentary. I hope you enjoyed it.

En Passant Grandmaster

Chapter:17

Apr 15, 2024

Author's Commentary #16:

It's time to discuss Chapter 16: Oni-tiger.
First off, I will confirm that both Nagi and Mami are truly dead. I will also confirm that Shion contacted Gyro following the game and agreed to grant him an audience with her mother, the prefectural governor.

The chapter also offered a bit more insight into Okisato's character, however, I won't discuss any further information beyond what was revealed in this chapter. Though I will say that his physical strength is on another level. This is once again a reference to Kiyotaka Ayanokoji from Classroom of the elite. His strength is also why he's known as the oni-tiger, and what led to him adopting the nickname.

One final thing I'll mention is regarding Inferno's den. It's basically a hot spot for underground chess matches which is why Gyro sent Zanni there to level up. Now Zanni has a rating over 2000 and is far more formidable. Not to mention, he's got his sights set on Yuusuke.

Speaking of which, Yuusuke's mother, Hagemi, has now made her debut. Though we'll talk more about her later. All I'll say for now is that you don't want to get in a fight with her.

That's all for this commentary. I hope you enjoyed it.

En Passant Grandmaster

Chapter:16

Apr 15, 2024

Author's Commentary #4:

Time to talk about Chapter 4: Time for dessert.
Not too many differences between this and the original. When I first started writing this chapter, I felt I needed to use the Makihara mini-arc to introduce everyone to the cook-offs. Obviously, they're not as epic as the shokugekis from Shokugeki no Soma, but I tried my best.

Now onto the funnel cake. Why did I have it be a funnel cake that wins it all? Well, 1st I just wanted to pay homage to the funnel cake. Second, and more significantly, I wanted to highlight that in this series, the better crafted meal won't always beat out the more delicious meal. Rika knew beforehand that Masaru really enjoys funnel cakes, not to mention she made sure to have it taste more distinct from her opponents in order to win over Itsuki's taste buds and possibly Makihara's.

To go more into detail on why Itsuki liked the funnel cake so much, it was due to it being a new tasty experience for her as the desserts Takeda and Helga made are part of the Makihara approved desserts menu, thus she's ate so much of those, the taste doesn't impact her the same, even though they're well made. This will be a key theme going forward.

That's all for this commentary. I hope you enjoyed it.

Spice of life [Remake]

Chapter:4

Apr 14, 2024

Author's Commentary #15:

It's time to talk about Chapter 15: Bughouse brawl.
The bughouse game against the shogi club was actually one of the first major events I had planned for the story. It was originally goin to take place before the Cypress and Zanni confrontation, but I felt jumping in the bughouse before the confrontation wouldn't flow as well, so I pushed it back, which ended up working out real well. Another reason I wanted to do a bughouse game was because I wanted to have the punishment for the losers be getting zapped with a giant bug zapper. For some reason, I always think of a giant bug zapper whenever I hear the term "bughouse", thus I felt it was fitting to have the room turn into a giant bug zapper and for the losers to be electrocuted to death.

Now let's discuss what bughouse is. Bughouse a two player variation of chess that allows you to use pieces captured by your teammate. You are allowed to drop a piece that can check or mate, and unlike in shogi you can drop a pawn on the same file that contains a pawn of the same color, and drop a pawn to checkmate. You can't however, drop a pawn on the 1st or 8th ranks. Conversing with your teammate is also permitted, making this more of a strategy game.

The game itself was by far one of the harder ones I had to write as I essentially had to create everything from scratch and get the piece drops right. However, the effort was worth it. This is by far one of my favorite games in the series.

Despite that, I doubt I'll ever do a bughouse game again, but I might consider doing a Crazyhouse game, which is a single player variant of Bughouse, in the future.

That's all for this commentary. I hope you enjoyed it.

En Passant Grandmaster

Chapter:15

Apr 14, 2024

Author's Commentary #14:

It's time to discuss Chapter 14: A bughouse gambit.
Now is the time to talk about both the principal and Nagi, whom were both introduced in chapter 1. First off, both are actually named Nagi Enoki, however, the kanji for their names is different. The principal's name is 渚, which translates to "anxiety", while Nagi's name, 梛, means "evergreen tall tree". Their names were chosen in reference to Nagi Umino from A couple of cuckoos.
(If I made any mistakes with the translations, feel free to correct me).

Nagi's birthday is April 6th, which is shared with Nagi Umino of A couple of cuckoos. The principal's is November 13th, which is shared with Mami Namai from Rent a girlfriend.

As for Nagi, he's the president of the shogi club as well as a 5-dan in shogi.
Nagi is actually a twin and has an older brother named Kazuya. Originally, their names were flipped, but changed after Nagi was shown to be more skilled at shogi than Kazuya. The principal also gave Kazuya a scar to better distinguish the two, and treated him much like he did Utami until his political talents came to bloom.

The principal, believe it or not is a 1-dan in shogi despite his poor chess skills. He is also very wealthy, but seeks to gain more wealth and power.

That's all for this commentary. I hope you enjoyed it.

En Passant Grandmaster

Chapter:14

Apr 14, 2024

Seems like this will be a nice little traveling series. I've never tried a yuzu before, but have tried yuzu flavored gummies. I am a little curious though about the hotel the MC is staying at. How bad exactly is the place?

Yuzu

Chapter:1

Apr 14, 2024

To:Joya

Thanks for checking this out.

I'm pleased to hear you enjoy the writing style and are interested in the story. I always make sure to include the full game notation once the game is concluded so that anyone can play along and see how everything unfolded.

I hope you enjoy reading this story. 😁

En Passant Grandmaster

Chapter:1

Apr 14, 2024

Whelp, looks like the MC got turned into a magical girl. Also props for the crazy chapter title. It reminds me a bit of the title cards from Gintama.

the color of shattered dreams

Chapter:1

Apr 14, 2024

To:lolitroy

Thanks for checking this out.

To answer your question, this was written back in early December. There were two reasons it came to be. The first, was that I decided to submit Spice of Life to a contest, and the second was that I didn't like the pacing of the original. However, it was so far along, that I decided that editing it all would be harder than just rewriting from scratch. Once I completed the remake in late January and submitted it, I was not allowed to post it as per contest rules, but since it didn't pass the 1st round of judging, I decided to post it. As such, the story is complete and I don't have to worry about writing new chapters.

I guess that ties into how I can upload so much at a time. The main reason for that being my backlog. I tend to build up at least a few weeks of backlog so I can upload on a frequent basis without having to worry about writing new chapters constantly.

Of course, I can only build up a backlog if I have the inspiration to write something, which isn't always present. Though now that I'm uploading all of this, I've got a large enough backlog to last a few months, and that's just counting this novel. I've already got a sizeable backlog for my other ongoing series, En Passant Grandmaster, as well as a fully written remake of one of my other novels that I'm sitting on.

Funnily enough, one of the authors I take inspiration from is Hiro Mashima, who is known for churning out tons of works. I don't know his secret, so all I can say is build up a massive backlog, and then all you have to worry about is uploading everything.

As for the author commentaries, it's something I've been wanting to do for a while. As such, I've also started doing it on En Passant Grandmaster, and funnily enough, find myself spending more time on them than on writing a new chapter. Good thing I've got a backlog.😅

Once again, thanks for checking this story out. I hope you enjoy it.😁

Spice of life [Remake]

Chapter:1

Apr 14, 2024

Author's Commentary #12:

Time to discuss Chapter 12: Stealth challenge.
This is mainly a fun little chapter. First off, let's discuss what Okisato did. He initially came to school on time, but after noticing Yuusuke was absent, he decided to sneak out during the teacher's lecture and look for him. Since he sits towards the middle of the class and looks very generic, it was easy for him to sneak out. Not to mention his homeroom is on the ground floor, making it easy for him to sneak out the window. Too bad the security cameras caught him.

Next up, the insult Iori hurled at Yuusuke actually has some meaning. In Japanese, 小便 or shouben translates to "pee". Thus, Iori is essentially calling Yuusuke "piss". And since Yuusuke wet himself, the insult stings even more, not to mention it's only one letter off from his surname, Shousen.
(If I made any mistakes with the translation, feel free to correct me).

One final thing I'll mention is that Iori made a Metal gear reference. !!!

That's all for this commentary. I hope you enjoyed it.

En Passant Grandmaster

Chapter:12

Apr 14, 2024

Author's Commentary #11:

Time to talk about Chapter 11: DESPER
That means, we're discussing the DESPERs. There are still many mysteries surrounding them, so I won't divulge too much about them. Rather, I'll clarify some things about them.
First, they can't be used against fellow Desperado league members or DESPER holders. A Desperado can however activate their DESPER in order to allow a lower-rated teammate to challenge someone.

DESPER holders can also force people into matches they aren't participating in so long as they have the highest rating amongst everyone. However, the one that activated the DESPER will not be dragged into any wagers if they themselves aren't playing. If they try to, the DESPER will simply tell them the request is invalid.

DESPERs can also force people with the exact same rating as the DESPER holder into a battle. Due to it being so structured around ratings, it is required to be a WWCF member and have a proper rating in order to wield one.

One final thing I'll mention is that the DESPERs are surprisingly very fair. They completely prevent cheating which is why the WWCF allows the use of them. Had Cypress activated his DESPER after knocking out Iori, it wouldn't have triggered due to Cypress having an overwhelming advantage. However, it isn't perfect as Cypress was clearly able to find a loophole by activating the DESPER before he knocked out Iori.

That's all for this commentary. I hope you enjoyed it.

En Passant Grandmaster

Chapter:11

Apr 14, 2024

Author's Commentary #10:

Time to talk about Chapter 10: Knight race.
This was honestly one of my least favorite games to play out, though by no means my least favorite. From the get-go, I wanted this game to end in stalemate, meaning I had to make use of chess.com's move analysis in order to get things right. However, through the course of the game, Yuusuke made numerous blunders which is why I had Zanni intentionally make blunders in order to get a stalemate. As for why Zanni freaked out after moving his king to h3 on his 27th move, Yuusuke moving his rook to h6 would have been checkmate.

As for why the game ended in stalemate; insufficient mating material. It is actually impossible to checkmate with just a king and a knight (As well as with just a king and a bishop).

Considering how stressful, and how much I had to make the villain intentionally blunder to get the game right, I'm unlikely to plan anymore stalemate games, at least for now.

That's all for this commentary. I hope you enjoyed it.

En Passant Grandmaster

Chapter:10

Apr 14, 2024

Author's Commentary #8:

This time, we're discussing Chapter 8: Blitzkrieg.
The first thing I want to address is the bit about the ratings. I actually added that part in because in real life, classic, rapid, and blitz are the three main ratings chess players can get. Each is at a different time control with classic being 90 minutes or more, rapid being anywhere from 10 to 60 minutes, and blitz being 10 minutes or less. There are faster forms of chess like bullet and Armageddon, but I don't think there are specific ratings for those two, at least not on chess.com as far as I'm aware.

This is also the first time I'm attempting to have two games take place simultaneously. While I think it worked well for these two games, it's unlikely you'll see this format in the future

Now onto Dr. Zanni. Obviously, he takes inspiration from Kira Yoshikage of Jojo's bizarre adventures. He stands at 213 cm, which is just under 7 ft. The mask he wears is known as a zanni mask, which is also where he gets his namesake from. This type of mask is worn by the zanni, a servant and trickster type character from Commedia dell'arte (Itallian comedy).
He did once have a medical license, but it was revoked as soon as he started murdering people. After joining up with Gyro, he opened a pub which he primarily used as a means to hunt for targets to force into underground chess matches. Though despite that, he's actually a decent bartender. As for why he enjoys collecting skeleton arms, that will be explained later.

His full name is actually Arlecchino Zanni with the katakana for his name being
ドクター・ザンニ (アルレッキーノ・ザンニ) (Dr. Zanni (Arlecchino Zanni). Funnily enough, Arlecchino is Italian for Harlequin.

He shares his birthday, January 30th, with Kira Yoshikage from Jojo's bizarre adventures.

Finally, his favorite piece is the pawn. The reason for that is that he believes they are the most unified of all the pieces due to their strength in numbers.

That's all for this commentary. I hope you enjoyed it.

En Passant Grandmaster

Chapter:8

Apr 14, 2024

Author's Commentary #3:

It's time for dinner, or rather Chapter 3: Dinner for Makihara.
Once again, not too many differences between this and the original.
Now is probably a good time to mention that the series draws heavy inspiration from Shokugeki no Soma, though that probably was kind of obvious. Many of the characters are also based off a Shokugeki character. For example, Rika is based off of Rindo Kobayashi while Makihara is based off of Azami Nakiri. Masaru and Itsuki are also based off of Shokugeki characters (those being Eishi Tsukasa and Erina Nakiri, respectively), but take their names from other anime characters. Itsuki's name is a nod to Itsuki Nakano from Quintessential Quintuplets, while Masaru's is a nod to Masaru Hananakajima from Sexy Commando Gaiden.
Takeda is also loosely based off of Etsuya Eisen from Shokugeki, but draws more inspiration from Takeda Kanryu of Rurouni Kenshin and Purple ant from Spy Kyoushitsu.

That's all for this commentary. I hope you enjoyed it.

Spice of life [Remake]

Chapter:3

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