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Sep 28, 2024

[Game log #133]

Here's the game from Chapters 210 and 211, featuring a crazy Bongcloud.

[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Emmie Broadstone (669)"]
[Black "Iori Ishikiridokoro (2044)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Link "https://www.chess.com/analysis?tab=analysis"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Ke7 3. b3 Nc6 4. g4 Ke8 5. Ba3 h5 6. g5 Bxa3 7. Nxa3 d6 8. h4 Bg4 9. Bh3 f5 10. gxf6 Qxf6 11. O-O Bxf3 12. Bg2 Bxd1 13. Raxd1 Nd4 14. Kh2 Rh6 15. Bh1 Qxh4+ 16. Kg1 Rg6+ 17. Bg2 Nf3# 0-1

En Passant Grandmaster

Chapter:211

Sep 27, 2024

Author's Commentary #210:

Time to talk about Chapter 210: Empathetic yandere.
It's been a while since a game was split between two chapters, but I felt it would make a good cliffhanger, so that's why it's happening. Now let's discuss the new characters.

エミー・ブロードストーン (Emmie Broadstone is how Emmie's name is spelled in katakana.

Her birthday is June 12th, which is also the day Raiders of the Lost Ark was released.

Her favorite piece is the queen, mainly due to it being a good number of people's favorite piece.

クリスタロ・ブロードストーン (Kristalo Broadstone) is how Kristalo's name is spelled in katakana.
His name is actually Latin for crystal, which makes sense considering he's essentially a living crystal ball.

His birthday is January 6th. I chose the date at random, so there's no greater significance behind why this day is his birthday.

He doesn't really play chess, but his favorite piece would probably be the queen.

シモーネ・ブロードストーン (Simone Broadstone) is how Simone's name is spelled in katakana.

Her birthday is October 11th. I chose this date at random, so there's no greater significance behind why this day is her birthday.

Her favorite piece is the pawn, mainly because she tends to view people as pawns.

One final thing I'll mention is that Caïssa's blessing is the reason Emmie's power didn't affect Skaberghast. Iori has yet to acquire it, which is why she was still vulnerable. It's also becoming more clear how Skaberghast will cement himself as the main villain for the season. While a climatic final battle with him is unlikely, he is clearly showing why he's the main villain of the season, and will only continue to do so in the next chapter.

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

En Passant Grandmaster

Chapter:210

Sep 26, 2024

Author's Commentary #209:

Time to talk about Chapter 209: Chicken bone chaos.
Just as I hinted in the last commentary, it's Mimoko's time to shine. It's actually kind of hard to believe it's been a while since Mimoko had a proper match. Speaking of which, the match was quick, but it showed how Mimoko dominates with the London System. And speaking of witches, let's talk about Lynessa.

リネッサ・ブロードストーン (Lynessa Broadstone) is how her name is spelled in katakana. Her name is actually one of the many names given to the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Her birthday is May 17th, which is the day The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was released.

Her favorite piece is the knight, mainly because it's the closest piece to a chicken.

To be honest, I only decided to make the Broadstones a family of witches at the last minute, but I'm glad I did. Them being witches adds a bit more creative flair to the story and I enjoy writing the characters too. In fact, I ended up liking some of the characters so much, that I really felt bad about killing them off, but sadly some need to die for the sake of the plot. I'd argue most of the Broadstones will be likeable antagonists, but there will be a few that will be irredeemable.

Speaking of antagonists, it turns out Skaberghast is on track to be the main villain of the season after all. This will become much clearer in the next few chapters.

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

En Passant Grandmaster

Chapter:209

Sep 26, 2024

[Game log #132]

Here's the game from Chapter 209 featuring a London System. It really is a powerful opening.

[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Mimoko Inoue (2750)"]
[Black "Lynessa Broadstone (664)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Link "https://www.chess.com/analysis?tab=analysis"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Bf4 d5 3. Nf3 c5 4. e3 Nc6 5. Nbd2 Qa5 6. c3 Kd7 7. dxc5 Qxc5 8. Nc4 h5 9. b4 Qxb4 10. cxb4 b5 11. Nce5+ Nxe5 12. Bxb5+ Ke6 13. Nd4+ Kd6 14. Qc2 Rh7 15. Qc5# 1-0

En Passant Grandmaster

Chapter:209

Sep 26, 2024

To:Taylor J

And to add even more insanity to the mix, players would actually be able to start off at 2200 instead of the normal 2000 if they beat the mysterious woman with a dubious opening like a Bongcloud, Hammerschlag, or Meadow Hay. It would also unlock unique dialogue as the mysterious woman would not be very happy to lose to openings like that. Of course, you'd actually need to be grandmaster level in order to pull that off, so normal players will have a hard enough time winning by playing normally.

En Passant Grandmaster

Chapter:23

Sep 25, 2024

[Game log #131]

Here's the game from Chapter 208 featuring an Andersspike.

[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Iori Ishikiridokoro (2044)"]
[Black "Alma Mata (2004)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Link "https://www.chess.com/play/computer"]

1. a3 g6 2. g4 h5 3. g5 b5 4. e4 e5 5. d4 f5 6. exf5 Bd6 7. Bg2 c6 8. f6 Qb6 9. Qd3 Kd8 10. Nf3 exd4 11. Nxd4 Nxf6 12. gxf6 Rf8 13. Ne6+ dxe6 14. Qxd6+ Nd7 15. Qe7+ Kc7 16. Be3 Rxf6 17. Nc3 Qa6 18. O-O-O e5 19. Ne4 Kb8 20. Nxf6 Nxf6 21. Qxe5+ Kb7 22. Qe7+ Nd7 23. Rxd7+ Bxd7 24. Qxd7+ Kb8 25. Bf4# 1-0

En Passant Grandmaster

Chapter:208

Sep 25, 2024

Author's Commentary #208:

Time to talk about Chapter 208: Anderspiked.
The name is an obvious reference to the name of the opening featured in this chapter, the Andersspike. I've actually been meaning to feature a game with that opening for a while, but only found a good place to put it in just now. Now let's talk about Alma Mata.

アルマ・マタ (Alma Mata) is how her name is spelled in katakana. It's an obvious pun on the Latin phrase, "Alma mater".

Her birthday is October 17th. I chose this date at random so there's no greater significance behind why this date is her birthday.

Her favorite piece is the pawn, as she believes it can promote itself to another piece, reminiscent of an actor assuming the role of their character.

Alma is a drama student and seeks to become an actress. To be honest, she's more of a one-off character, but perhaps I'll figure out a way to bring her back.

And with that, only one more round of the qualification tournament remains for the day. While there doesn't seem to be much drama occurring within the tournament, there's most certainly some drama brewing outside of it. I will say though that this season is slowly shaping up better than I thought it would, and will likely be longer than I initially planned. Though it will still be one of the shorter seasons in the series when all is said and done. There have also been far more games than I initially planned. So far, Carol, Utami, and Iori have all gotten games. That just leaves Mimoko. Perhaps she'll get a game as soon as the next chapter.

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

En Passant Grandmaster

Chapter:208

Sep 25, 2024

With a chapter title like "Reinforcements" I was worrying that it would refer to enemy reinforcements. I was glad to find out it was referring to the wasp constructs.

Face of Eternity : Principality of Dreams

Chapter:8

Sep 25, 2024

To:Taylor J

Naturally. The online mode would be critical to the game's long-term success in my opinion. It would be as simple as just being able to play chess online, but that's a critical feature that would entice both chess newcomers and veterans alike. Since I'd want this game to be on as many platforms as possible (mobile, PC, and console) I'd make it mandatory that the online experience is the best it can be.

Story mode would essentially be the way to unlock CPU opponents and cosmetics for player's avatars, but I would likely have the 1st chapter of story mode serve as a tutorial of sorts before players get free roam. Though I might just have a normal tutorial instead.

My original idea for a tutorial is that a character will ask the player how good they are at chess. If they answer, "new player" they'd get a brief overview of the game and play a tutorial boss with assistance. If they answer "experienced" they skip the tutorial and jump straight into the tutorial match. But if they answer "I'm a grandmaster" they are prompted with one final chance to reconsider before being forced to play a 2700 elo CPU opponent where losing or drawing results in a loss and being forced to go through both the beginner tutorial and the tutorial battle as punishment.

Though since I kind of want to to entice players to check out the story, I might settle on having things go as follows, [Initial start-up (language and region selection)- Story mode prologue (Chapter 1 of series {with player being guided through the fight with Inojin})- After Inojin is defeated, avatar selection- Then player is taken to hub area where the host of the game explains the various modes before directing player to approach a mysterious woman. The woman then asks the player if they are satisfied with their initial elo rating of 100 and offers to give them a one-time only test to give them a chance to raise it. Here, the options would be, "no" which allows players free roam, "rookie" which allows players to raise their rating to 500 if they play against the 100 elo tutorial boss, "intermediate" which allows the player to obtain a rating of 1200 if they beat the tutorial boss when he plays at the level of a 1000 elo player, "advanced" which allows the player to obtain a rating of 1800 if they beat the tutorial boss when he plays at the level of a 1500 elo player, and finally, "I'm a grandmaster" which allows the player to face the mysterious woman who plays at the level of a 2700 elo player, with losing or drawing resulting in the player being forced to watch a tutorial on how to play chess as punishment. After that, players would be allowed to either explore other modes, do story mode, or go online.

It's also worth mentioning that there would be a way for players with an official title, (grand master, international master, etc) would be able to have their title show up next to their username after going through a verification process.

One final thing I'll mention is that online tournaments would take place every weekend and allow the players to unlock new hubs, CPU opponents, and even Side Stories just by participating in them. Essentially, the hubs would be different hotels around the world where the tournaments take place, but to unlock the Cpu opponent, you'd have to find them hidden within the hub and ask to challenge them in order to unlock the option to do so whenever. In-game currency would be required to challenge these characters, but it would be easy to obtain. More on this vision will become clearer in the next three chapters. This along with updates to story mode would serve as a long-term pull to keep players enticed. There would also be weekday tournaments and special events as well, just to name a few. In short, I have a really ambitious vision for this project.

En Passant Grandmaster

Chapter:23

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

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