There was a Chinese kid that moved to the U.S, and she was interested to play chess. She learned how to play the game. She was great at beating the other players, and she had a talent for playing chess. When she was 9-years-old. She was a National Chess Champion, and became the most popular person in the U.S. She met Bobby Fischer, the most legendary chess player ever born. In the “Rules of the Game” the author Amy Tan Writes that life is like a chess game; when you're losing you have to try to make it better.
In the middle of the story, the author says that sometimes you have to lose. Tan says,“Sometimes you need to lose pieces to get ahead” (Tan 324pg). When they were playing chess, she lost a few pieces, but she was