User blog comment:Goregutz619/HXH episode 103 discussion/@comment-4783583-20131106131536

well as a chess player, I understand the laymen comparison, but this has nothing to do with chess, it might be similar to gungi which is togashi's invention. however I say it is just a story written with great well thought out battle strategies and tactics. The episode however was wonderful it is my top 2 of accurate adaptation episodes. The episode was in all regards perfect, the episodes have slowly been getting better and better in calmy and precisely adapting the manga, which I wonderful, but does make one sad that they skipped through the entire greed island arc to get here. Then again I am a manga purist and the closer and adaptation is to the original the better it is in my eyes.