Finally at peace after decades of war, the telepathic people of Gaant and the people of Enith can coexist, including a Gaantish military officer and an Enithi nurse. The two had become unlikely friends after being one another's prisoners during the war; they'd bonded over chess, and can now finish their game in peace.

A teenage boy unexpectedly discovers a love for chess and sets out to make a name for himself, only to hit the ceiling between passion and genius.

In civil war-stricken Burundi of 1994, a divorced expatriate posing as a blindfolded chess grandmaster meets another imposter pulling off the same con as him.

A man starts a game of chess against a unicorn that he must win in order to save humanity. He takes month-long breaks as needed between his moves and meets a sasquatch who coaches him in chess in order to help him beat the unicorn.

When his social-outcast, chess buddy from high school becomes obsessed with neuroscience research to find a way to eliminate distracting side-thoughts, a man finds himself exposed to a mysterious infection that will doom his wife and himself to

A journalist visits the Florida home of a deceased world-renowned pianist to hear him play Chopin from the afterlife.

A father and son play an especially strategic and emotionally intense game of tennis that ends in both their losses, in one way or another.

A desperate spouse introduces her wife to a game about cat politics in hopes of helping her with her dementia. But when her wife turns out to be a prodigy at the game, she risks losing her forever to the fantastical gaming world.

In a futuristic society, humans are bred and raised to be frozen as sculptures and displayed at art museums — until one attendee decides to set them free.

When a star player on his professional basketball team falls during the big game, a fellow player reflects on the history of Black people in the United States that brought them to that moment.