Check & Mate

by Ali Hazelwood

“I am reliably informed that you’re a Gen Z sex symbol.”

So many people quoted this part it's not even funny. But this is funny.

No more Timothée Chalamet posters staring creepily at me from the walls.

At first, I honestly didn't understand this sentence whatsoever but pages after she said that she shared a room with her 12-year-old sister. lol

“Marshall Chess Club Player One. Nolan Sawyer.”

“Nolan?”

“Mallory. I came because you did.”

ON THE FLOOR DYING. If she doesn't date him I just might.

“I’ve got you, Mallory. Nothing bad is going to happen. You can let yourself want this, because you already have it. You have me.”

I don’t think so, at least.

You are an ungrateful bitch.

Okayyy... calling her 15 year-old sister a b-i-t-c-h that is not very nice of you mallory.

also a high-functioning bitch.”

WOW now she just called her other sister (who is 13 I might add) also a b-i-t-c-h... this girl.

you’re currently also being a bitch—”

if it hadn’t been for me.

I manage to nod.

“Sad? To play against Nolan?”

“Oh, we have plans for your money.”

HEHEHE

Sounds like someone I know:

OOP. She didn't just say that.

I think you can win the World Championship.

And all because I pushed you to embrace the important cause of gluten sensitivity.”

YASSSSS Easton is back with her amazing energy. It's giving Cristina and Meredith.

“Easton?”

“That you are an idiot.”

“What’s most suited for someone whose favorite singer-songwriter is Taylor Swift and whose favorite director is Ari Aster?”

“Who were you mad at, Mal? Nolan? Your dad? Life? Yourself? All of the above?”

I’m not okay at all.

I am lost for words.

“Did you call him a bitch, too?”

OH that would have been funny. Love you Darcy.

A lot scared.

I don’t think you’re an asshole.

HMMM. So you take back what you said in the past? Or are you trying to make up with him because he's your Derek Shepherd?

“Yeah. For instance, I know now that I want to keep on playing chess. Professionally. I want it to be my job.”

“I want to be with you,”

FINALLY!!! Girlie said it. Like come on! We all knew you were Meredith and Derek level in love with him.

My eyes begin to tear up, but I’m not sad. For the first time in a long, long while, I’m a million things, and sad is not any of them.

Soon to turn 21, Mallory Greenleaf is currently ranked No. 5 in the world . . . and yet she is the world champion.

“It’s because we feel that the environment is less and less hostile to us,” GM Defne Bubikoğlu, Greenleaf’s main trainer and owner of chess club Zugzwang, told us. Her club has been thriving, officially surpassing Marshall, New York City’s historic chess club, in membership.

It's giving. Defne is a slayyy. She needs her own book.

And if you “ship them hard” and “want to believe,” you might enjoy this little clue: three weeks ago, at a charity event, Nolan Sawyer—who is a notoriously bad loser—did not stop to take questions from journalists. But eyewitnesses reported that when asked how he felt about the possibility of

When Eleni really said "ship them hard" girlie it's giving young gen z. I think that Ali Hazelwood wrote this book for the teens who make the funniest jokes cause man this lady is very funny.

Mallory Greenleaf accruing enough points to take the No. 1 spot from him, he simply smiled before walking away.