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'Chess players are whip-smart and passionate...it's hot'
Scottish Daily Express
|March 19, 2025
COMEDIAN Sue Perkins has described chess as “hot” - adding that the players on her new BBC series are “extraordinary”.
The former Great British Bake Off presenter said she has never seen passion to match that on Chess Masters: The Endgame.
The competition follows 12 amateur players who compete against each other to be crowned the champion.
Sue, 55, said: “I’m obsessed with human psychology and this is why I love chess.
“When you think of chess, you think of maybe a 65-year-old white guy, with a sort of dusty sort of collar. Um, no. Chess is hot.
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This story is from the March 19, 2025 edition of Scottish Daily Express.
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