No Game No Life: Chess Analysis

No Game No Life: Chess Analysis Made by: magadanz [ Stock the Referee ] ________________ The scenarists & author of the anime may not be familiar with chess! ________________ As a person who is not very familiar with anime and manga in general, I can safely say that the opinion about what I saw about chess in anime will be honest and unbiased. Considering the previous analysis of such anime as “Code Geass” and then comparing the manga and anime - I realized that sometimes they both differ in some moments they cut and in some they supplement and I am sure this applies in general, about chess separately this is rather one of the examples that you as a viewer will observe. The next anime we will analyse is “No Game No Life”, as Hans Niemann said: “Let chess speak for itself”. ________________ Episode 1. "Beginner" [ 6:07 ] - And here we already see the first blunder of the authors, according to the rules of the chessboard, the square a1, must be black and at the same time Sora says: “This is high-level chess,” no matter how long I stared at the unknown chess program displayed on the screen, to be fair, I still can’t figure out how Sora determined that it was “high-level chess.” Sora asserts that "chess is a perfectly balanced game for two players, with no room for luck." I share his perspective, but I would add one caveat: the player with the white pieces always moves first, granting them a slight advantage of first to move. However, one might counter this by pointing out …