Grandmaster

Grandmaster (国王 《グランド・マスター》) is the fourth episode of No Game, No Life.

Characters
The following characters are listed by the order which they appear in.

Major characters

 * Clammy Zell
 * Sora
 * Stephanie Dora
 * Shiro
 * Former king of Imanity (flashback)
 * Tet

Minor characters

 * Speaking roles
 * Elderly official
 * Minister of Agriculture
 * Minister of Economy
 * Hatsuse Ino


 * Non-speaking roles
 * Feel Nilvalen
 * Hatsuse Izuna
 * Miko
 * Jibril
 * Inn-keeper
 * Three unnamed thieves

Events

 * Conclusion of the match of chess between Clammy Zell and the siblings
 * Coronation of the siblings (interrupted several times by Sora and Shiro due to the misunderstanding that there could only be one king/queen)
 * 3-day-long match of normal 'Old maid' between the siblings
 * Compulsory rock-paper-scissors match between Sora and the Imanity ministers, where Sora plays scissors and all ministers are forced to play paper
 * Coronation speech by the siblings to the Imanity, which declared war against all other races

Key differences from light novel
In the light novel,
 * The Race Piece did not magically appear in the sky during the siblings' coronation speech.
 * Tet did not appear out of no where to speak to the siblings, nor did he teleport them to the roof. Instead, Stephanie unknowingly brought Tet into the king's meeting room while she was still wearing the maid outfit.

Trivia

 * This is the first episode in which the title's katakana has a different meaning from its kanji. The katakana (グランド・マスター) reads 'grandmaster', while the kanji (国王) means 'king of the country'.

Credits

 * Storyboard: Hosokawa Hideki (細川ヒデキ) and Watanabe Kotono (渡邉こと乃)
 * Director: Nakamura Kinsei (中村近世)
 * Animation director: Abe Chiaki (阿部千秋) and Yamamoto Michiko (山本径子)