I think that is personification as you are giving a non living thing a living trait, if I'm wrong correct me.
Answer: She is a clever chess player.
Explanation:
In “Rules of the Game”, Waverly Jong is the narrator of the story.
The narrator is presented as an immigrant Chinese girl who lives in San Francisco Chinatown with her two brothers. She plays chess and is quite good at it, just like her mother, who taught her to play it in the first place. The narrator, however, obviously has certain problems with her mother which she finds difficult to resolve.
