At the end of the "Rules of the Game", Meimei considers her "next move." What move would you make if you were Meimei? What move do you think she...

Consider the section at the end of the story when Meimei imagines playing her mother in chess: 

Her black men advanced across the plane, slowly marching to each successive level as a single unit. My white pieces screamed as they scurried and fell off the board one by one. As her men drew closer to my edge, I felt myself growing light. I rose up into the air and flew out the window. Higher and higher, above the alley, over the tops of tiled roofs, where I was gathered up by the wind and pushed up toward the night sky until everything below me disappeared and I was alone. 

Upon winning these chess tournaments, Meimei's mother parades her around and lives vicariously through her. Her mother enjoys showing her off. Meimei (Waverly) is proud of her own accomplishments but can't stand the way her mother has taken over the experience of the satisfaction of winning. In general, Meimei is tired of her mother's domineering presence in her life. The metaphor in the quote listed above illustrates this. She feels as if her mother is taking over every portion of her life: not just with chess. She feels inclined to simply rise up and fly away from this oppressive presence. She wants to be "alone" which is to say she wants independence. 

However, she doesn't want to completely abandon her mother and her family, literally or symbolically. Therefore, her next move might be an attempt to assert her own individuality without alienating herself from her mother. This might involve chess and it might not. Waverly (Meimei) needs to find some activity in which she can enjoy her own independence but one which allows her to return to her mother without too much resentment.

If Waverly doesn't think her mother will compromise on her domineering ways, then Waverly might choose to continue playing chess without telling her. In any case, the ideal next move would allow Waverly to have some independence while still having a relationship with her mother. Her next move might be to sit down with her mother and try to explain this need for independence.