Feb 02, 2026
Author's Commentary #703:
Time to talk about Chapter 703: Hagemi's fateful match.
This one comes directly from EPGM Volume 4, which is why I'm deciding to showcase it here. Here I never showed the match that led to Hagemi becoming Hannelore, nor even stated who her opponent was. This chapter explains all that.
Even in Volume 4, I was thinking of skipping over the game and just having the reveal be that Phantom was the one who played Hagemi, yet felt Hagemi deserved to have the game shown. Thus, once it was complete, I decided I'd port it over here for content.
In the original game I played out, the mate ended up occurring in 69 moves instead of 36. I shortened the game to include the blunder on the justification that Hagemi was not playing at her best, and to be fair, the game was already lost for her following move 24. The bot I played for this was Chess.com's 2882-rated New Year's Magnus bot, so I feel the level of the game was up to par for Hagemi despite her groggy state.
Now we'll get more into the Season 11 proper stuff following this chapter. The tournament won't begin right away, but I'll do my best to make things entertaining until then.
That's all for this commentary. I hope you enjoyed it.
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