User blog comment:Maki Kuronami/Lesson 7: The Art of Chess, and Gravity was happy./@comment-11942246-20130830070322

Well, it's only the 1st day, so everyone has room to gorw, more so with Jaune, but still. I thought he was quite hilarious in this one, also with Pyrrah, who just smiles and runs off. Like almost all of the students, (with the exception of Ren), Pyrrah has probably never fought something that big and/or without backup.

Weiss is just Weiss, meaning still a brat, but we got to see a bit of inner termoil from her after saying she's not perfect. I expect a lot more biggering between her and Ruby. Speaking of Ruby, I'm sure in the next episode Ruby will tell Yang and Blake on how some monsters flung her over to them.

In terms of the chess pieces, I'm trumped there. I'm sure once the initiation is over, Ozpin will explain the meaning behind the pieces.