Chess Masters: The Endgame
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Twelve rising stars in the UK's chess community battle it out to be crowned champion. | Twelve rising stars in the UK's chess community battle it out to be crowned champion. | ||
| - | The show seemed to suffer from not really knowing what it was supposed to be; you got the impression that at one stage it may have been planned as a simple human-interest documentary about people who took up, or redicovered, chess during the pandemic, then someone had the bright idea of showing off their subjects' skills by making it into a competition and hustled for an 8x30 minute series - only to find that this was was nowhere near enough to do a | + | The show seemed to suffer from not really knowing what it was supposed to be; you got the impression that at one stage it may have been planned as a simple human-interest documentary about people who took up, or redicovered, chess during the pandemic, then someone had the bright idea of showing off their subjects' skills by making it into a competition and hustled for an 8x30 minute series - only to find that this was was nowhere near enough to do a 12-player chess tournament justice. |
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Revision as of 09:22, 29 April 2025
Synopsis
Twelve rising stars in the UK's chess community battle it out to be crowned champion.
The show seemed to suffer from not really knowing what it was supposed to be; you got the impression that at one stage it may have been planned as a simple human-interest documentary about people who took up, or redicovered, chess during the pandemic, then someone had the bright idea of showing off their subjects' skills by making it into a competition and hustled for an 8x30 minute series - only to find that this was was nowhere near enough to do a 12-player chess tournament justice.
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Champion
Thalia Holmes
