The article critiques 'Chess Masters: The Endgame', noting the show's struggle to build on the popularity of 'The Queen's Gambit'. It highlights the challenge of making chess accessible and engaging for television, especially when the game is largely intellectual. Despite the inclusion of various presenters to explain the game, the commentary often fails to bridge the gap for newcomers, resulting in content that is either too basic or too rushed. Overall, the presentation lacks the dynamic appeal needed to draw in a wider audience.
We get a hurried handful of descriptions of games' pinch points in each episode... that are too fast for the ignorant to understand and too basic to be useful.
Chess Masters presents challenges in making an essentially silent, cerebral game telegenic and accessible... leaving viewers with people frowning over an abstract strategy board game.
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