ep 11 Chess game

Thanks for recreating it!

As a pretty strong cess player (I have participated in world youth championships), the game start is honestly a bit incoherent.

The first moves were
1. b3 c5
2. Bb2 d5
3. d3

But then things start getting messi. In the next cut scene the position seems to be the continuation of the same game, but the white bishop inexpicably moved to b5. But this makes no sense since the pawn on d3 blocks the route of the bishop from f1.

The game continuation is actually how I imagine intermediate chessplayers with a week or some months of preparation would play. Their strength matches the amount of time they spend learning.

The game is not fully consistent, but some pieces progress pretty normally until the climax (where the video begins). There Ayanokoji starts with a suboptimal move Nxe7+ instead Nxd6 wouldve been winning.
Sakayanagi then played Rxe7, which is the optimal move and black has the slight advantage. Ayanokoji then proceeds with Qxe7, which is a losing move. Instead Qc4 seems to hold the position. These moves were all poorly written.

But then out of the blue, the show drops some genius lines. Black plays Qxf3, which is loses the game (Bxf3 would've won), but has an interesting idea: it threatens Qxg2# and seems not be coverable. If gxf3, then Rg6+ and Bxf3 is mate in 2.

But Ayanokoji found a brilliant move after Qxf3. Which is Qg5!! It covers the mate, sacrifices the queen but if black recaptures the Queen, then white can capture blacks Queen and Rg6 is not checkmate anymore.

My verdict: though not coherent, the game was still good by anime standards and the move on the black screen really made the episode worth watching

My friends and I have done the Chess Analysis in lichess study
https://lichess.org/study/QVxpVRg1/QCbVjU8V
We rush but the report is done from the chess players' perspective
Hope u like it

White had a completely winning position.