Apr 24, 2026
Author's Commentary #8:
Time to talk about Chapter 8: Humiliating the Danish.
The Chess Olympics are kicking off in style, and what better way to do it with a Bongcloud. This game was a lot more fun to write than I initially thought, in fact, all the original 1st round games were.
In the early planning stages of this arc, I hadn't really thought up the match results much beyond the fact that Japan would beat Denmark despite Ginji not winning his game. As such, this first round of the men's side only saw a focus on Okisato's game in the original.
The checkmate is what truly made me go with the game as an opening act to the Chess Olympics as it is a really nasty mate.
Here in the volume, since the Japan-Denmark match was the only one that didn't have all its games shown, I decided to remedy that here. Wakuta's game was from a cut chapter, Skaberghast's was an easy draw, Sommer though was a bit forced. With him, I wanted something quick, but also wanted him to play the Danish Gambit, since he's Danish. As such, he became a complete sub-2000 idiot for this game.
And now men's 1st round match has finally been shown in full. While Denmark was dispatched rather easily, the women's team will have a much harder time against France.
That's all for this commentary. I hope you enjoyed it.