Jan 31, 2026
Author's Commentary #701:
Time to talk about the intro to Season 11, Chapter 701: An exhibition match.
I'll be blunt with this one. This game is mainly going to serve as a replacement game for the Ryonosuke vs Jochi game from round 5 of the Chess Olympics when I get around to adapting said part of the story in the volumes. The old game will be revised for a new set of characters though, so it won't be going away.
As for why the game came to be, it's because I learned the Mongolian Attack was a real opening and thus, I had to have a Mongolian play the opening. This game I got was special because I was up against Chess.com's level 23 2700-rated engine bot. It was shocking how fast it blundered when forced to play the opening.
Anyway, Season 11 is here, though I'll give fair warning that I have no backlog as of the upload of this chapter, thus I'm not sure what the quality of the chapters will be. The possibility of me disrupting my daily upload schedule is also on the table as I am starting to get a bit of fatigue from writing and might need a few days off to recharge. I'll try my best to get this season done though.
That's all for this commentary. I hope you enjoyed it.
