A guy tries to improve his chess game by joining a Buddhist monastery, hoping to escape the limitations of nirvana and apply his powers of concentration to the chess board.
He fails, ridiculously so. Early on the path to enlightenment he renounces the eternal game as a mere exercise in distraction. His heart and mind open into a world of empathy and he turns his focus on others.
Ironically the monastery is short of funds, falling prey to parasitic forces in the giant bureaucracy that are more concerned with expensive cars than karma. They set Ed on a chess quest to win prize money and influence young minds toward the monastic way of life. Ed begins winning tournaments and gaining a following.
He ultimately becomes disillusioned with the corrupt bureaucracy of the monkhood and drops out only to find his chess game suffer.
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