Talk:Sky Walk/@comment-193.11.161.137-20150606025307/@comment-32766742-20170819065057

To put it bluntly, Shiro was probably close to throwing the game, so that's why Blank would have lost, not because they actually got properly beaten. But yes, by legal chess rules, Shiro would have lost.

Pretty sure the animators/producers basically said, "F*** it," (pardon my language) when they were doing this part. Along with the color swapping you mentioned, this whole section is riddled with odd ended errors, like how right after Sora stops Shiro and you see the board from Shiro's right, the black queen is missing all together and other various scenes have the pieces changing colors (assuming from black and white contrasts and shading).

Either that or they misdrew something because Jibril says "check" the first time when she moves her queen but then seemingly seem to forget to say "check" when she moves her queen again to the 8th row (or was left out since Shiro's monologue).

The other part that gets me (and semi-why I'm saying the animators/producers poorly thought this through) is if Jibril honestly was playing to win, then why move her knight after the check instead of mating with the queen? The only legitimate reason I can think of is either: 1. that Shiro was suppose to move her king backwards (c1), not diagonally back (b1). This would prevent the black queen from attacking the 1st row (d1) without getting captured, so Jibril had to check using knight (to d3) to make the king move to b1; or 2. Shiro's white knight was actually suppose to be on e2 and not f3 to protect the d1 square and Jibril was threatening Shiro's knight with her own.

So here's the problem, since Shiro (seemingly) moved to b1 and Jibril incorrectly moves her knight instead of checking again with queen, this gives Shiro an extra move to make. And this is where I think they made another error. Shiro's white knight is actually on f1 (diagonally behind white queen) and not g3 (next to white bishop). You can tell this because in the scene where Jibril moves her black knight you can see part of the white knight behind the d3 pawn. If it was actually next to the bishop, you would be able to see the pawn on e4 (because the e file would be vision between the d file's pawn and [seemingly] f file knight). So the whole reason they had Jibril make that extra move is so that Shiro had an open move to move the knight from f1 to g3.