Chess can become an obsession, but for Eddie, it is a way of life. Facing personal dilemmas with his teenage daughter, and fantasizing about a beautiful deli waitress, he encounters Geoff, his guardian angel who looks all too human.

CHESS can become an obsession, but for Eddie, it is a way of life. Facing personal dilemmas with his teenage daughter, and fantasizing about a beautiful deli waitress, he encounters Geoff, his guardian angel who looks all too human. The thwarted end of a simultaneous match in the Chess Club, a game that Eddie should have won, results in a blindfold match with all the Park Players rallying against Marvin Schultz, an arrogant and cynical Chessmaster.