Mondays With Columbo: THE MOST DANGEROUS MATCH

Very rarely (at least, if memory serves) did Columbo ever pull "straight from the headlines", but this may be one of the few Columbo episodes which shares similarities with its more recent equivalent, a fourth-season episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Focusing on the then-prevalent interest in chess (now the subject of a major motion picture, now with extra Tobey Maguire), The Most Dangerous Match has a great idea behind it - after all, aren't most Columbo episode...