Positional play
Episode 14 · 2009-10-01

- Animation
- Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Drama
- Mystery
- Crime
Episode overview
Beatrice and her predecessor engage in a magic battle, though a surprise attack allows Beatrice to kill her teacher. Battler is bewildered by the entire spectacle, but regains his composure when the former Beatrice, under the new name Virgilia, reappears and gives him advice for countering Beatrice's claims, allowing him to deny that the witches' battle ever took place. In the real world, the siblings discover the bodies of Kinzo and the servants, each locked in a room containing the key to the next locked room, forming one large locked room. With Virgilia's guidance, Battler theorizes that one of the six victims is the murderer, created five of the locked rooms, and then died in an accident in the sixth room, forcing Beatrice to concede this round. Meanwhile, Eva, urged on by the vision of her younger self, solves the riddle of Beatrice's epitaph and discovers Kinzo's hidden gold.
23 minutes
Season 1 episodes
1. Opening2009-07-02
2. First move2009-07-09
3. Dubious move2009-07-16
4. Blunder2009-07-23
5. Fool's mate2009-07-30
6. Middle game2009-08-06
7. Early queen move2009-08-13
8. Week square2009-08-20
9. Skewer2009-08-27
10. Accept2009-09-03
11. Back rank mate2009-09-10
12. Castling2009-09-17
13. Gambit2009-09-24
14. Positional play2009-10-01
15. Isolated Pawn2009-10-08
16. Queening Square2009-10-15
17. Promotion2009-10-22
18. Swindles2009-10-29
19. End Game2009-11-05
20. Zugzwang2009-11-12
21. Prophylaxis2009-11-19
22. Problem Child2009-11-26
23. Breakthrough2009-12-03
24. Adjourn2009-12-10
25. Forced move2009-12-17
26. Sacrifice2009-12-24