Mar 20, 2025
Author's Commentary #384:
Time to talk about Chapter 384: Fjolla's fury.
In addition to the game, Fjolla is also given some more backstory, and it's dark. I won't go into all the nitty gritty of it, but I'm sure you can imagine how bad it must have been for her. While Fjolla is a gangster, she does have noble aspirations to make her country better so that none have to go through what she went through. But ironically enough, her biggest headaches come from the neighboring countries, which is normal when it comes to the Balkans.
The game was a fun one. I started off with a Saragossa opening and then after 1... e5, I played 2. Qa4 and dubbed this sequence of moves, 1. c3 e5 2. Qa4, the Albanian opening. It's mainly in honor of the fact that Fjolla plays it. It's also not the worst opening for White, but there are better openings. Still, if Black follows up with anything other than Nf6, the position becomes practically even. This did happen in the game, but naturally, Ionuț is a pompous ass that can't think properly, and thus he blundered. But at least it lead to a very satisfying checkmate. Fjolla even got her hair back, and Ionuț... about to get completely humiliated.
And now, it's time to shift back to Kisha Shinbun. But before that, I need to mention something. Some of you might be aware that on Chapter 259: The Chess Olympics' opening ceremony, I frequently post a list containing links to all the artworks currently up of all the teams. For the longest time, I thought I'd be capping things off for the women's side at 64 teams, but I ended up doing 5 more, one of which being Northern Ireland, and now the women's teams will be capped off at 69. Originally, I was just going to post a bonus artwork, highlighting 5 players from teams with no artwork, which would have included Sorcha. The plan was that all 5 of these characters would simply be the sole members of their respective teams, but in Sorcha's case, I ended up creating a full team for her anyway, and thanks to that, 4 more teams followed, most of them containing the characters I originally planned to just include in the Misc. Women's players artwork I mentioned. And now, with all these new characters, I might end up having to revise a few things. And in the case of the Misc. Women's players artwork, I still plan to post it, but now it will include new characters, meaning a few more teams than originally planned will be showcased in the story.
That's all for this commentary. I hope you enjoyed it.
