This story is about how a girl called Waverly grew up in San Francisco, Chinatown and how she suddenly became a chess prodigy.
One day, during a Christmas gift opening, Waverly’s family received a chess set and when Waverly started to play, she began to be really interested in chess. She started to practice and learn about the strategies and rules of chess, and soon she was able to beat her brothers. One day, when she challenged a guy from the park to a match of chess and the guy easily wins. However the guy offered to teach Waverly chess strategies and before you know it, she became really really good at chess. She became so good at chess that she didn’t really have to do chores, but to practice chess and also even attend tournaments for chess. She ended up becoming a national chess champion and her mother was really proud of her. However her luck changed when her mother started to brag how she was the mom of this amazing national chess champion. Waverly began to get mad and soon storms off. When she returns home, her mother was really mad at her and soon when in her bead she drifts off to sleep. Dreaming a chessboard, and how her mother’s pieces sweeps her pieces off the chessboard.