The apocalypse happened, but no-one knows how. What’s still left is a barren globe ruled with a high-powered caste of bookies, THE CHANCES. Scurrying around underneath can be our hero, Eldridge—a big-hearted, bumbling drifter with an estranged family members he loves dearly. He’s deep with debt and deathly unwell, so he places a bet predicting your day he’ll pass away. If he wins, he can go to his grave understanding that his family members will be secure, but when he results to his hometown to get, he gets some poor news: He’s likely to live. So it’s to program B—a high-stakes battle-tournament that pits real-life chess avatars against each other in random-chance brawls-to-the-death. But Eldridge doesn’t understand that someone’s gamed the competition to pit him against an old friend who’s now a bitter enemy. Now he’s got to make all the right moves to save lots of his family—and beat the Odds.