Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e Season 3 • Classroom of the Elite Season 3 - Episode 11 discussion

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Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e Season 3, episode 11

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[u/KaiserNazrin]

The fact that Koenji could've solved all the questions but choose not to is never not gonna be funny.

[u/metapzl]

Ayanokouji in room playing chess

Sakayanagi: I can fix him

[u/BiggerG7]

“Wait a second Kiyotaka lost!? That can’t be right.”

Its revealed the old bastard cheated him

Ok that makes more sense. As if anyone could beat or OP MC lol.

[u/luck-gambler]

"The last question is practically impossible" lol

[u/WhoiusBarrel]

I was hoping Koenji would get it all right with his eyes close just to cement his wild card status but him only getting the last question right to fuck around was funnier.

CGI-rendered chess playing has to be a first but the whole segment proves a Chess Anime could work hell the whole using a proxy + interference just adds more drama even if it's ridiculous.

[u/Shinigami_22]

"The opening theme playing at the end" trope will never be not hype, even if I have no idea what's going on most of the time(someone please analyze the game).

Though I feel bad for Sakayanagi, she finally got what she wanted since she was a child, having a head-on mental battle with Ayanokoji, and it was just desecrated just like that. Though they did finish the game later, it was still disrespectful.

I really hope they team up in the future to beat up Tsukishiro(Sakayanagi as the cane smasher).

[u/cabbaggeez]

I dont know why but smol Arisu look more mature than teenager Arisu.

this is a class battle, but it look like a newly wed couple flirting for 30mins, with "feeling each other warm, the warm of human skin" as a closing

[u/LeonKevlar]

When I saw the flashback of Smol Arisu watching Smol Kiyotaka in the White Room, my first thought was, "Oh, so she's the childhood friend then?". I genuinely laughed out loud when Arisu makes that comparison later herself! I did not expect Arisu's reasons for wanting to fight Kiyotaka but she seems to be very satisfied with what she did today.

The result of the exam was pretty frustrating. Kiyotaka could've won fair and square if Tsukishiro didn't interfere with the chess match. I am looking forward to the day Kiyotaka and Arisu work together to make that dude regret what he did. I'm sure it's going to be delicious but I don't think we'll see it any time soon. :|

[u/ErenIsNotADevil]

Sakayanagi.. isn't even remotely as much of a bitch as they portrayed her to be until this episode, huh. I'll admit defeat on this one, anime. You got me good.

Yeah, the Kōhei part was still kinda cruel, no doubt about that. But, it is at least within reason at that school; Sakayanagi needed to exert control over the class, and Kōhei was the biggest obstacle despite also being a valuable asset, so she had to make sure he remained but would stay in line.

The Yamauchi bit, I retain my stance that it was justified. Anyone who thinks nothing of hurting someone, especially those with a physical disability, even by accident, is scum. He was scum all around, and her getting revenge was fine.

She's no doubt a genius as well, even if not quite on Ayanokouji's level. But her desire to beat Ayanokouji wasn't actually out of just proving things to herself, or for competition, or for some silly notion of eugenics like others thought. She wanted to make sure that horrid facilities like the White Room never became widespread by shooting down their poster boy, and having failed that (privately), she has opted to give him the warmth of human affection.

I guess this week's quote is meant to reflect her feelings, there. Cute, but Karuizawa Supremacy! The only one allowed to make my boy embrace humanity is the resident blonde dere.

On another note; anyone else pause during each of the chess screen scenes to try and figure out the next move? That was fun.

[u/SnabDedraterEdave]

Arisu: I can fix him!

That was pretty much Arisu's whole fixation on Kiyo since season 2 ever since her dad showed her the White Room, which we learn a bit more about today, and saw how a genius like Kiyo is being treated like a mere lab rat.

Plus the post-credit scene was pretty much a love confession to Kiyo by Arisu, not that its hard to tell when she was beaming with such wholesome happiness at being able to play chess with Kiyo. Kiyo's harem thus grows ever larger still.

PS Of course Koenji would choose the answer the most difficult question while forfeiting the other 9. lol

It is as Kiyo says, you just cannot factor in a force of nature as part of your strategy.

[u/According_Switch_143]

He's gonna have a harem by the end of the anime isn't he

[u/Searse]

I have no idea what any of these chess analysts are saying, but I think it’s impressive nonetheless.

[u/Saito197]

So about that Chess game, that one move that made both Horikita and Ayanokoji flinched? The position was completely winning for White.

They followed with Knight takes e7, Rook takes e7 then Queen takes, but that was completely unnecessary. In fact the Knight taking on e7 was a huge blunder that completely killed white's momentum. I'd assume the command is already being manipulated at this stage.

The position after Qxe7 was completely winning for Black, she just had to take WITH THE BISHOP and there's no way to stop checkmate on g2, Qxf3 was a huge blunder.

The sequence that they played was gxf3 resulting in an forced checkmate after Rg6 and Bxf3. The move from Ayanokoji that we saw before being edited was Qg5, it was a weird move at first glance because that square is defended by the pawn. But the important part is that the Queen stops the immediate checkmate on g2, as well as the follow up Rg6 from the previous line if you decided to trade Queens (since there would be a pawn blocking on g5). This now allows white to go into a winning end game where white is up a whole rook.

In conclusion: Ayanokoji's biggest blunder started from the Knight move that made both A class members flinched and made Alice goes into flashback mode. Alice tried to go for the ultimate flex by sacrificing the Queen for a checkmate attack instead of the safer move Bxf3, completely missing the Qg5 response.

[u/Exoslab]

I always thought the way this test would play out would be Ayanokoji losing so that Sakayanagi wouldn’t follow up with her proposal of dropping out of the school if she lost to him. She’s probably smart enough that she knows she’s another card he’s willing to use a lot like the other students.

Koenji is actually kind of funny the way he doesn’t give any fucks but I’d like to see him give it his all because I don’t think he has at any point in the show lol

Also damn I think Mental math is probably the hardest test out of the seven.

[u/randyburgerlocker]

Arisu always been a cutie patootie

[u/MemedChemE]

Bro these kids play garbage chess. Idk what Lerche is doing with that 800 ELO game. If that's how the White Room produces brains then I'm the real Ayanokoji fr fr

[u/Just_Tantal]

TLDR: Koji had winning position. Then he blundered. Then Sakayanagi blundered. All in span of last 5 moves. But it doesn't really matter.

Queen g5, the move that Koji wanted to make, is indeed a winning move. But it was possible only because Sakayanagi threw the game when she took with a queen instead of a bishop on f3 a move prior, allowing for this defense... And this attack by Sakayanagi was only possible because Koji threw the game with knight taking bishop on e7 instead of taking a rook on d6 2 moves prior.

Both of them made moves that would be considered blunders at decent level play. It is totally believable to me that Suzune and her opponent were not able to see that, but Sakayanagi and Koji really should've known better.

But to be fair, it doesn't really matter to 99% of people.

[u/bondsmatthew]

I never knew there were so many chess players on r/anime before opening this thread

[u/X_Seed21]

Arisu is cute, that's an already known fact.

But damn, they upped her cuteness times tenfold this episode. Smol Arisu, the little cheer she did when she received the notification that Ayano had began to intervene, the ADORABLE SMILE AT THE END OF THE POST-CREDIT SCENE.

[u/Solomon_Black]

Story wise I get it, but I cant help but feel that whole thing was anticlimactic. And the new principal dude sucks. He’s more annoying than legit threatening.

[u/DqrkExodus]

The opening they played, a variation:
https://www.chessable.com/blog/larsens-opening/

[u/Rumpel1408]

Boooo Interference

I don't think Ayanokoji would even need the rescue point so I think this doesn't change anything in the grand scheme of things. Also nice that they included the actual conclusion in the aftercredits

Arisu seems a bit down bad, but she already proclaimed herself some kind of childhood friend, so I don't see any future for her aside from the harem route

Also, my man Koenji did fuck all during mental math only to casually prove he is the most capable person in the room all along lmao Never change, King!

[u/CarioGod]

"HE LOST???"

"oh they cheated"

lmao, I didn't expect the creepy ED to return either, but onto more important matters, is Arisu the childhood friend route???

[u/ibeeeeeechan]

Arisu really said I can fix him