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Chess Masters: The Endgame

2025

Last aired: S1 E8, Episode 8 · 2025-04-28

Sue Perkins hosts this high-stakes chess contest, following 12 rising stars of the UK's booming chess community as they battle it out via a gauntlet of brain-bending puzzles and nail-biting eliminators to be crowned champion.

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Season 1

E1 Episode 1 2025-03-10 · 30 min In the first of two heats, six talented players from across the UK arrive at Cardiff's former coal exchange. They face a brain-boggling puzzle and a high-stakes speed chess battle.
E2 Episode 2 2025-03-17 · 30 min The five remaining players from the first heat return to the Great Hall to battle it out for a place in the quarter-finals.
E3 Episode 3 2025-03-24 · 30 min
E4 Episode 4 2025-03-31 · 30 min
E5 Episode 5 2025-04-07 · 30 min
E6 Episode 6 2025-04-14 · 30 min
E7 Episode 7 2025-04-21 · 30 min
E8 Episode 8 2025-04-28 · 30 min

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