A chess grandmaster is in a big tournament, and when his lover is found painted up and the blood drained out of her body he becomes a chief suspect. After he gets a call from the killer urging him to try and figure out the game, he cooperates with police and a psychologist to try and catch the killer, but doubts linger about the grandmaster's innocence as the string of grisly murders continues.
Keywords:
Suicide
Chess
Chess champion
Serial killer
Grandmaster
Polaroid camera
Police psychologist
Traumatic childhood
Movie tag line: "In a game of life and death... one wrong move could be his last..."
Character: Peter Sanderson
Character: Kathy Sheppard
Character: Frank Sedman
Character: Andy Wagner
Character: Jeremy Edmonds