The Chess Master
Description
Charley Williams gets fired from his job, plays a simple game of chess with a stranger, and finds himself $5,000 richer—all within the space of two days. A job offer and more games ensue, but why is everything happening so fast? And why does Charley have the feeling that each time he wins a game, he is losing a very important part of his life?
A jobless ad man plays chess with someone he doesn't know in a park, and this ordinary game opens the door to an exciting new world full of adventures.
An uneventful game of chess with a stranger in the park leads to a world of adventure for an out-of-work advertising agent.
CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.
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