His uniform seems to be patterned after a chessboard. He uses a chessboard as part of his forecasting technique. Deathlist is his lover and servant. He's got his own force of cyborgs, called the Chessmen. As of the middle of January, 2007, the head of the Syndicate says he's put a bounty of $10 million on the Chessmaster for his part in the Halloween invasion.