the final stages of a chess game after most of the pieces have been removed from the board

The final part of the game after which there is no further contact and the players begin to bear off their checkers.

The final moves of a game, begun when the first player to bear off a checker.

When both players are bearing off their checkers, they are playing the end game.

The last stage of a game, when either player begins to bear off his checkers from the board.

End Game is a 2006 action thriller directed by Andy Cheng. It stars Cuba Gooding, Jr. as Secret Service agent Alex Thomas, who is shot in the hand while unsuccessfully trying to protect the President (played by Jack Scalia) from an assassin's bullet. Later, with the help of a newspaper reporter named Kate Crawford (played by Angie Harmon), he uncovers a vast conspiracy.

"End Game" was the seventeenth episode of the second season of The X-Files science-fiction television series created by Chris Carter.