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Mario Nakano 64

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Sep 24, 2024

Author's Commentary #207:

Time to talk about Chapter 207: The Phoenix gambit.
Bibi Biwaki is back, only to get destroyed by Utami once more. It wasn't as humiliating as last time, but she still cried just as much.

As for the game, it features a never-before seen opening which I dub, the Phoenix gambit. As for the move superseding it, I was actually debating what to call it. Like Okisato in the chapter, I considered Andora, and Alaska before settling on Arizona due to the cowboy analogy. That also led to the naming of the gambit as Phoenix is the capitol city of the state. Thus, the opening's full name would be something like Arizona opening: Phoenix gambit.

Like 95% of the games featured in the series, it was a me vs the Chess.com bots with assisted mode on original. What motivated me to use this game over some of the other games I had played was the fact that the bot got its queen trapped. That was what sealed the deal for picking this game over some of the others I had planned. However, it's still possible some of them make an appearance soon as there are still 5 more rounds of the qualifiers to go. While I only plan to showcase one game per round, you can bet they will be some of the more intriguing ones.

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

En Passant Grandmaster

Chapter:207

Sep 24, 2024

[Game log #130]

Here's the game from Chapter 207, featuring a new opening I dub, The Arizona opening: Phoenix gambit. Bibi's rating has also dropped since her last encounter with Utami.

[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Utami Enoki (1630)"]
[Black "Bibi Biwaki (1430)"]
[Result "1-0"]

1. a3 e6 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. d4 d5 4. c4 dxc4 5. e3 Qd5 6. Nc3 Qc6 7. Ne5 Qd6 8. e4 b5 9. Nxb5 Qb6 10. Nxc4 Qxb5 11. Nd6+ cxd6 12. Bxb5+ Bd7 13. Qc2 h5 14. Qc8+ Ke7 15. Qb7 a6 16. Bxd7 Nbxd7 17. Qxa8 h4 18. Be3 h3 19. gxh3 Rxh3 20. Rc1 d5 21. e5 Ng4 22. Rc7 Nxe3 23. Qc6 Ng2+ 24. Kf1 Ne3+ 25. Ke2 g5 26. Qxd7# 1-0

En Passant Grandmaster

Chapter:207

Sep 24, 2024

To:Taylor J

The Desperados will most certainly be at the tournament. Though WWCF rules prevent them from using their DESPERs, until the final round that is.

As for the game aspects, I agree that it would be a daunting challenge to enact the vision I have in mind for it. Though I definitely have lots of ideas for it, with a core idea for it being revealed in about 3 chapters from this one.

One thing I will reveal about the game aspect is who you'd play as. While you would be able to control characters like Okisato for key story matches, you'd primarily play as one of two avatar character, Azenira-chan, or Zago-kun. The last names would be unchangeable, but you'd be allowed to give them any first name of your choosing. The avatar you don't pick would then become your rival. In terms of the story, Azenira/Zago would observe key events and primarily get the chance to shine in tournaments. Season 1 would actually be where they'd both have the least amount of screen-time as the player would be spending most of the story games playing as characters like Okisato, Iori, and Yuusuke. Mimoko would also be playable, but not required as much due to her opponents being so difficult. Though the principal fight would clearly be the exception as he's a complete idiot. In later seasons though, Azenira/Zago would be able to have bigger roles in the story, replacing some of the roles of minor characters.

One final thing I'll mention about my vision for the game, is that the story mode would have some difficulty to it. There would be ways for rookie players to progress through it, but challenge would be the name of the story mode, not to mention certain fights would start out after a few moves have been made. Though the difficulty would primarily be exclusive to the story mode and certain CPU opponents. As for how rookie players would be able to beat grandmaster-level opponents like Gyro, [Game logs] would be available and would essentially be cheat codes for how to beat each story boss. They'd actually be the games play-for-play that are featured in this novel, however, [Game logs] would only be available for story bosses and would only be viable in their corresponding story matches. The vs CPU versions of the story bosses wouldn't follow the exact pattern every time, but there would be a chance of it happening. Though any match that Azenira/Zago personally play would not have a [Game log], meaning players would be on their own for those matches.

En Passant Grandmaster

Chapter:23

Sep 23, 2024

Author's Commentary #143: [Bonus]

As promised, here's the bonus commentary for the series one year anniversary celebratory chapter, Chapter 143: Happy Birthday Yumi.
To celebrate the series' 1-year anniversary, I decided to release this chapter on both the original and remake versions of the story. The remake is still the cannon version, but I felt that the original deserved to have the special too. Thanks to all that supported this series, and while it is over, the characters continue to show up in my other works, so their stories aren't done yet.

I was actually debating posting the arc the Spice of life characters debut in here as well, but decided not to. But if anyone's curious about learning how Yuni and Cinnamon got into chess, it's Chapters 178-187 of En Passant Grandmaster.

Here's to many more years of Spice of life. Thank you all once again for your support.

That's all for the author's commentaries for this series. I hope you enjoyed reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them.

Spice of life [Remake]

Chapter:143

Sep 23, 2024

Author's Commentary #143: [Bonus]

As promised, here's the bonus commentary for the series one year anniversary celebratory chapter, Chapter 143: Happy birthday Yumi.
To celebrate the series' 1-year anniversary, I decided to release this chapter on both the original and remake versions of the story. The remake is still the cannon version, but I felt that the original deserved to have the special too. Thanks to all that supported this series, and while it is over, the characters continue to show up in my other works, so their stories aren't done yet.

Here's to many more years of Spice of life. Thank you all once again for your support.

That's all for the author's commentaries for this series. I hope you enjoyed reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them.

Spice of life [Remake]

Chapter:143

Sep 23, 2024

Since I can't fit every image in the gallery, and it might be too much of a hassle to look through my gallery to find art of specific characters, here's links to artwork of all the characters from Season 1.

Season 1 protagonists: Okisato, Utami, Mimoko, Iori, Yuusuke (in main gallery)
https://www.honeyfeed.fm/novel_images/14480

Season 1: side characters: Maida, Numakawa, Rodeo, Yuzuha, and Hagemi
https://www.honeyfeed.fm/novel_images/14528

Season 1 Desperados: Zanni, Cypress, Gyro, Inojin, Kuon, Nyoan, Svetlana, and Peter.
https://www.honeyfeed.fm/novel_images/14530

Season 1 minor antagonists: Nagi, the principal, Mami, Kigyoku, and Shion.
https://www.honeyfeed.fm/novel_images/14529

Season 1 and 2 Desperados: Red Reaper, Prof Skaberghast, Tsar Grigori, Kazuya, and Nyoan (after she lost all her hair following her match against Okisato).
https://www.honeyfeed.fm/novel_images/15657

Here are all the character profiles as well for Season 1 characters. Raymond Redfield is included amongst them.

Raymond: https://www.honeyfeed.fm/novel_images/15260

Mimoko: https://www.honeyfeed.fm/novel_images/14479

Okisato: https://www.honeyfeed.fm/novel_images/14481

Yuusuke: https://www.honeyfeed.fm/novel_images/14482

Iori: https://www.honeyfeed.fm/novel_images/14483

Utami: https://www.honeyfeed.fm/novel_images/14484

Gyro: https://www.honeyfeed.fm/novel_images/14485

Peter: https://www.honeyfeed.fm/novel_images/15656

Hagemi: https://www.honeyfeed.fm/novel_images/14490

En Passant Grandmaster

Chapter:38

Sep 23, 2024

Author's Commentary #1:

Welcome to Mystery ghost foresight [Remake]. Unlike my other novels, my author commentaries are going to work a bit differently. Rather than commenting on every chapter, I'll typically be commenting at the start and end of each arc.

Speaking of other series, if you've read my commentaries, particularly some from Spice of Life [Remake], you'll have seen me constantly talk about how Mystery ghost foresight needed a remake. Well finally it's here.

First off, Mystery ghost foresight [Remake] is part of the Jouzu-verse, and takes place before Spice of Life [Remake], Escape:Witch [Remake], and En Passant Grandmaster just to name a few. The Shiruka Collection serves as a prequel to this, but it is not necessary to read beforehand. Speaking of which, that segways into my next topic, changes between this and the original.

Back when I first wrote the original Mystery ghost foresight, I intended for it to be a direct continuation of Shiruka's story from The Yowie Hunt, and as such, the prologue of that novel focused on Shiruka waking up as a ghost. Here, I decided to just include a revised retelling of Shiruka's murder, mainly just for this story.

Though if you've already read The Shiruka collection or The Yowie Hunt, then you probably know the truth behind Shiruka's murder. On a quick note, The Shiruka Collection serves as a director's cut compilation work of all the Shiruka short stories and Yowie Hunt seasons and the versions of those stories included in it are considered the cannon versions of their original counterparts.

One final thing I'll mention is that a good chunk of the arcs from the original Mystery ghost foresight will be revised a bit for the remake, but they won't all be exactly the same as their original counterparts, so the original won't be able to spoil everything perfectly. This also means the remake, like all other [Remake] versions of my stories is the new cannon story-line for this series.

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

Mystery ghost foresight [Remake]

Chapter:0

Sep 23, 2024

[Game log #129]

Here's the game from Chapter 206, featuring a Hammerschlag.

[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Carol Cooke (1069)"]
[Black "Theresa Broadstone (1988)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Link "https://www.chess.com/play/computer"]

1. f3 e5 2. Kf2 Qf6 3. c4 Bc5+ 4. e3 e4 5. Nc3 Na6 6. Nxe4 Qb6 7. Nxc5 Qxc5 8. h4 b6 9. d4 Qe7 10. e4 Bb7 11. Ne2 Nb4 12. Bf4 O-O-O 13. d5 Qc5+ 14. Be3 Qf8 15. a3 Na6 16. b4 d6 17. Nf4 Nb8 18. c5 dxc5 19. bxc5 h5 20. Qa4 bxc5 21. Qxa7 Nd7 22. Ba6 Bxa6 23. Qxa6+ Kb8 24. Rab1+ Nb6 25. Rxb6+ cxb6 26. Qxb6+ Kc8 27. Qc6+ Kb8 28. d6 Rxd6 29. Rb1+ Ka7 30. Bxc5# 1-0

En Passant Grandmaster

Chapter:206

Sep 23, 2024

Author's Commentary #206:

Time to talk about Chapter 206: A very sweet fate.
Welp, it technically was a sweet fate, but it sure as hell wasn't sweet. Though Theresa deserved it for all the abuse she subjected Carol to. As I've mentioned before, this was originally going to be it's own Side Story before being merged with the main season. In it, I originally planned for Okisato or Iori to play Theresa instead.

I decided to go with Carol though as I felt it would be better narratively for her to settle the score with her abusive mother. She did still have hope deep down that her mother might have a shred of humanity left in her, but after seeing she had none, felt no remorse for her when she learned what her fate would be.

This also showcases just how malicious and sadistic Skaberghast can be. While I mentioned in a previous commentary that Skaberghast was planned to be the main villain of the season, that was before I began finalizing plans for the season. Since this season's likely going to be really short, it probably won't really have a season antagonist. Though Skaberghast will eventually be a season antagonist for a future season.

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

En Passant Grandmaster

Chapter:206

Sep 23, 2024

To celebrate the series' 1-year anniversary, I decided to release this chapter on both the original and remake versions of the story. The remake is still the cannon version, but I felt that the original deserved to have the special too. Thanks to all that supported this series, and while it is over, the characters continue to show up in my other works, so their stories aren't done yet. Here's to many more years of Spice of life. Thank you all once again for your support.

Spice of Life

Chapter:123

Sep 22, 2024

Author's Commentary #205:

Time to talk about Chapter 205: Provocations.
This chapter is more of a build-up chapter, though I actually was considering merging it with the next one. The reason I didn't was mainly to build up the match more, and to let readers guess as to what the "sweet fate" truly is.

This was actually meant to be part of the Carol Side Story before I decided to merge it into Season 6. Funnily enough, I have another Side Story focusing on Carol in the works, but I'm not sure how far down the line it'll be until it's released, let alone written.

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

En Passant Grandmaster

Chapter:205

Sep 21, 2024

[Game log #128]

Here's the Duck Chess game from Chapter 204. Duck chess is a chess variant invented by Dr. Tim Paulden back in 2016. In it, players are required to move a blocker in the shape of a rubber duck following their initial move. The duck can't be captured or passed through, which leads to interesting twists and turns, and even possible triple checks. As such, the only way to win is to capture the king. This also means the king isn't forced to move if it's in check, but not doing so generally leads to a loss.

The annotation for the duck is "Θ". Sadly, there aren't currently any analysis engines for Duck chess, at least not any that I know of, but here's the annotation for the game. Carol's rating has also increased a bit thanks to some off-screen wins.

White: Carol Cooke (1069) Black: Mahi Makihara (1584)
1. e4 Θd6 e5 Θe3
2. Nf3 Θd6 Nc6 Θc3
3. Bc4 Θf6 d6 Θd5
4. Na5 Θe7 Be6 Θd5
5. d3 Θe7 Bxc4 Θd5
6. dxc4 Θh6 Nd4 Θd3
7. Qh5 Θg6 f6 Θf7
8. Ne6 Θd7 Qe7 Θf7
9. Nxc7+ Θd7 g6 Θh4
10. Nxe8#

En Passant Grandmaster

Chapter:204

Sep 21, 2024

Author's Commentary #204:

Time to talk about Chapter 204: Duck, duck, chess.
The first part of the national team qualifier has concluded, with only baby Yumi not making it through, though that was mainly due to her losing to Daria in the final round. She's still got a chance to become a grandmaster before her 1st birthday though.

As for the game, I've had my eye on featuring a Duck chess game for a while. Duck chess is a chess variant invented by Dr. Tim Paulden back in 2016. In it, players are required to move a blocker in the shape of a rubber duck following their initial move. The duck can't be captured or passed through, which leads to interesting twists and turns, and even possible triple checks. As such, the only way to win is to capture the king. This also means the king isn't forced to move if it's in check, but not doing so generally leads to a loss.

What tempted me to finally feature a duck chess match now was Chess.com's recent Duck chess championship tournament. The "tournament" Carol mentions in this chapter could be seen as a homage to it.

One final thing worth mentioning is that after 200 chapters, I finally explained all the titles chess players can earn. With the exception of Maestro, all the titles are the same as their real world counterpart, with WWCF Master, WM acting as this universe's equivalent of FIDE Master, FM. Maestro is the only title official to the story, but who knows. Maybe if this series gets an anime, the title will become a thing.

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

En Passant Grandmaster

Chapter:204

Sep 21, 2024

Definitely wasn't expecting them to find an alternative entrance to the tower. I liked the puzzle too and thought it was very clever. I also have a feeling the stuff they found in the vault will play an important role later.

Face of Eternity : Principality of Dreams

Chapter:7

Sep 21, 2024

Welp, guess that's the end of Yukio. This was a good story, but I feel Yukio's sudden twist death at the end really ended things abruptly... All joking aside, that was a funny way to end off the chapter.

Blue Memory

Chapter:12

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