Saint James Infirmary #828: “Queen's Pawn Opening”

[lifmcs]

Indeed. Definitely not the same color. However, Hitomi has had subtler highlights at times in the past. Combine that with the way her bangs are emphasized in the thumbnail and me just glancing at it initially (something I am often guilty of), and the first internal match was Raven.

Apologies if I came off as perturbed, as I was not in this case. The art of SJI has evolved a lot over the years, which is part of its charm. That does make it a bit of a challenge at times to nail down with a casual glance who is being featured though.

[bigwad73]

Hitomi and Caitlyn.

Thanks, Daphne.

[miragian]

Am I the only one that isn't really sure what the heck happened with the chess game? You can't exactly checkmate out of check unless it's that its actually mate and she didn't realize it.

Just, the game itself didn't make a lot of sense (Yea I know, logic in my porn or something.)

[Tony]

Of course you can. All you need to do is capture the piece that putting you in check while that space happens to be a place to put your opponent in check.

[macavity]

Just, the game itself didn't make a lot of sense (Yea I know, logic in my porn or something.)

As far as I can see it doesn't actually work as a 'normal' game, but perhaps 'sneaky’  extends to more than cleavage exposure: it definitely looks to me that somehow the black and white squares have been inverted beneath the pieces between frame 2 and 3 so perhaps a bit of clandestine piece relocation is going on as well....

[jmundt29]

I thought it was Hitomi when I saw it, but when I got to the thread, there seemed to be consensus that it was Raven.  At which point I figured I missed something.

The side-by-side is clear.  Hitomi has pink highlights and has had since before Pink started to eat the cast.  Raven's accent color seems to be a sharper purple.

[miragian]

Of course you can. All you need to do is capture the piece that putting you in check while that space happens to be a place to put your opponent in check.

Okay, yes this is true. Though the odds of being able to get both out of check and put the other person in mate at the same time is pretty low. I'm glad someone else noticed that there was something else going on with the board.