"Rules of the Game" is told from a young Chinese girls perspective, who is the main character. She grew up poor in Chinatown with her mother, father and two brothers. At church where they give away presents to poor children she receives a pack of Life Savers and one of her brothers, a chess set. She becomes obsessed with the games.
She would sit in her room and read about the game. She learned many secrets and began to beat her bothers who eventually lost interest. She brings the chess set to the park where old men would play the game and begins to play a man, Lau Po. He is much better then her brothers and teaches her many moves for the game as well as etiquette. She eventually becomes better than Lau Po and begins to beat many other opponents, attracting a small crown around her on the weekends.
She eventually enters a tournament and wins. Then she wins another. Soon shes a chess sensation at the age of nine, having her picture Life magazine. Her mother begins to treat her differently than her bothers and parades her around like shes a trophy of hers and the girl resents this. She begins to run from her mother and at that point she has to think about what she is going to do next. She had no more moves to make, which was never an issue before. She always had a move for everything.
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