Checkmate

Nora has beaten every opponent worth playing — except the arrogant grandmaster who cost her the title, and who just moved into the apartment across the hall.

Nora recognized the moving boxes before she recognized the man — QUEEN'S GAMBIT ARCHIVES, stenciled, obnoxious, unmistakable.

The apartment across the hall. Across. The. Hall.

She wrote back — of course she wrote back, at one in the morning, with a diagram.