Synopsis

Grandmaster chess player Nicholas Groat assembles a team with a plan to pilfer gold destined for an underground network in an Eastern bloc nation – gold recently seized by the country's authorities. The IMF is tasked with retrieving the bullion from those authorities, preventing Groat from succeeding. He manipulates the authorities into relocating the gold from a bank to a vault within a hotel where he and Rollin are competing in a tournament. The hotel’s vault is equipped with a time lock for e