Knight Moves (1992)

'Have you noticed that every time we start to talk about something serious, you begin playing games?'

by Carl Schenkel with Diane Lane and Christopher Lambert (10:58) • 'A chess grandmaster is in a big tournament, and when his lover is found painted up and the blood drained out of her body he becomes a chief suspect.'

Knight Moves (1992) @ IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104627/