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 twelve are divided into two groups of six, and we get three episodes devoted to each group. Each episode eliminates one player, and the six standing after the group phase come together to compete in the last two episodes. |
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| + | Within each episode there are three rounds, and they vary over the series. First round in the first heat of each group pairs the the players off at random and has them play speed chess, the three winners are safe while the three losers are then set a puzzle. The person who solves it best or quickest (depending on the puzzle) survives, then the other two play speed chess again and the loser is eliminated. The second starts with a puzzle round; the best/fastest player is safe while the other four play a speed game in teams of two. The losing pair then face off against each other in the elimination match. With four players left in ther group, the last heat starts with a memorisation test, and the best performer gets to pick their partner for a two-vs-two match, the losing pair then playing the elimination game. --> | ||
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. | 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. | ||
Revision as of 17:52, 29 April 2025
Synopsis
Twelve rising stars in the UK's chess community battle it out to be crowned champion. The twelve are divided into two groups of six, and we get three episodes devoted to each group. Each episode eliminates one player, and the six standing after the group phase come together to compete in the last two episodes.
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
