Chess Masters: The Endgame
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
