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CHECKMAKE
aka Denise Charlotte 'Checkmate' Chalis

Image	Resistances (8)	Aptitudes (4)
	Composure 4 Fortitude 2 Reaction 3 Will 3	Athleticism 2D (cost 1) Fighting 3D (Free from Team Role) Investigation 3D (from Team Role) + 2D additional dice specialty for analyzing information (cost 1) Intrusion 3D (from Team Role) Military 3D (from Team Role) Presence 2D (cost 1) Shooting 3D (From Team Role) Technology 2D (cost 1) Chess Grandmaster 3D (covers strategy games, general strategy/tactics) Languages English (Native), German, Russian, French, Greek Spanish, Italian, Irish, Arabic, Navajo, Portugese, Farsi, Japanese, Latin, Polish Danish, Swedish, Norwegian
	Powers (12)	Adds/Disadds (+5/-4=1)
	Super Aptitude: Awareness 5D Super Speed: 5D (Limit: No Movement, No Attack, Speed Stunts for Mental actions only; -3D) Super Brain: 5D	Advantages Team Role: Investigator (0) (Shooting, Fighting, Intrusion, Investigation) Cover Role: Competitive Chess Player (0) Attractive Celebrity Leadership 2D (3D Bespoke Competency Dice) Security Clearance Disadvantages Enemy TBD Metnal Hinderance - Overconfidence Secret - Lesbian Social Hindrance: Uncanny Personality Competency Pool: 0D | 0 TCD | 3D Bespoke Leadership TCD
Background Denise was born just a year before Hammersmith's demonstration. She was among the affected, but no one knew that for a time. The effects on her were subtle. Still, when she started talking in full - and advanced - sentences before her third birthday, people started getting hints. When she could read thousand page books in minutes and give a full - and precise - report on them by age 5, it was rather obvious. Her parents knew earlier, of course - they couldn't miss that she saw and heard everything, and remembered it all. Then she discovered chess and other strategic games. Despite studying - and playing - numerous such games, including Go and Senet and Backgammon, chess was her favourite. She quickly mastered it, and thanks in part to the novelty, found men willing to play her, if only to humour her. Their humour quickly died. She didn't lose. Not once. She always played black out of a sense of giving her opponents some benefit over her, but not even the ranked Grandmasters could defeat her. They found that they couldn't stop playing her, though. Some, because they were sore losers and determined to defeat her, others because she'd become too well known, and refusing would be a mark on any reputation. Eventually that fame resulted in her being declared Grandmaster herself. But that's not all she did. She studied military history and tactics. Then she graduated to Strategy, and finally to Logistics. She matriculated at Oxford, age 15. Her course of study delving deeper into history, and she published papers about the tactics of ancient generals, where they went right, what they did wrong, and if it were preventable. When she graduated, British Intelligence was waiting. She had them wait briefly as she tried to join US Intelligence, but they only role they had for her - despite everything - was analyst. She joined up with British Intelligence and has been there since, fighting where needed, and guiding the fight as she can. Played by: Stormraven