Quiz Games 1-10

Please note that all answers are based on 1996 !!

Every chess fan has different likes and dislikes, here is a quiz for you to while away the hours off-line.  There are FORTY games with TEN questions in each game.  Enjoy!

GAME 1

1.Philidor the famous French chessplayer also had another career what was it?

2.Who has had the highest ELO rating in history?

3.Tal and Spassky visited a Scottish Blitz Tournament around September 1988 where was it held?

4.Which other East European Grandmaster also played and came third?

5.Karpov is Russian, Petrosian was Armenian, Tal from Latvia, where did Spassky originate?

6.1.d4 d5 c4 Nc6 name the opening.

7.Who wrote "Chess Fundamentals"?

8.German player Karl Englisch gave his name to the English Opening True or false?

9.Steinitz was born in Austria but where did he die?

10.Who is the Official Woman's World Champion at present?

 

 

GAME 2

1.Who held the World Championship for the shortest time?

2.Chess strategy - an attack on the wing is best countered?

3.Smyslov was also a singer, Taimanov a concert pianist - but which famous chessplayer did the Charlston to champiosnhip standard?

4.Lasker and Capablanca's deaths share a co-incidence which was?

5.Which nationality was the player Trompowsky?

6.New In Chess is edited by which famous Dutch Grandmaster?

7.The Pelikan is a variation of which well known defense?

8.Few players have a plus score against Kasparov, who has the amazing score of +3=1 against the World Champion?

9.Who wrote "The Art Of Attack in Chess"

10.Which Grandmaster had the fewest losses in a career?

 

 

GAME 3

1.Julian Hodgson is older or younger than Nigel Short?

2.Tigran Petrosian was the first World Champion since Alechine to successfully defeat his Challenger in match play. Who did he beat?

3.Capablanca's first chess success was a stunning match victory as an unknown against a famous American attacking player his name?

4.Name the Magician of Riga

5.Very very few of the World's top players smoke - name the current highest rated smoker.

6.What age was Botvinnik when he lost to Petrosian in the 1962 World Championship match?

7.The Tchigorin's, Bird's and the Breyer are all variations of which opening?

8.Chess strategy: Two bishops in a an open position are usually better than two knights - true or false?

9.Only one player has used the centre counter defence in a World Championship Match this century who was it?

10.Nimzowich lived in Denmark for most of his chess career but where was he born?

 

 

GAME 4

1.Name the youngest ever British Champion?

2.Boris Spassky's sister was a champion at which other board game?

3.Who wrote the book "Chess For Tigers"?

4.Who held the World Championship for longest?

5.What is known as the Trotsky line in chess?

6.In which country was the famous 1972 match between Fischer and Spassky held?

7.Name Scotland's current highest rated Correspondence player?

8.Najdorf became an Argentinian citizen but where was he born?

9.Anatoly Karpov was World Champion from 1975 until 1985 he played two famous matches against Viktor Kortchnoi, one took place in Manila in the Philipines the other in Bagio - in which country is Bagio?

10.David Bronstein wrote a famous book called "The Chess Struggle In Practice" about a Candidates Tournament in Zurich - In which year did the tournament take place?

 

 

GAME 5

1.Chess strategy: In general you should always recapture pawns towards or away from the centre?

2.Bobby Fischer's book "My 60 Memorable Games" features four games which he lost - true or false?

3.The word Fianchetto comes from which language?

4.Which World Champion was the tallest?

5.Which Yugoslav player wrote a classic book on the 1972 Fischer v Spassky match?

6.Bent Larsen played Board one for the Rest of The World team v The USSR in 1970 whilst Bobby Fischer player board 2 - true or false?

7.The Fried Liver Attack is a line of play in which opening?

8.Jonathon Mestel is a Grandmaster but which other game does he play to professional standard having competed in the British Championships?

9.From which opening does the "Reynold's Variation" come?

10.Mike Basman is most commonly associated with which opening?

 

 

GAME 6

1.Alexander Alechine's father was a member of the Duma - what is or was the Duma.

2.The Evans Gambit was named after a sea Captain - True or false?

3.What age was Tchigorin when he learnt to play chess? A4 B16 C 23

4.The French Defence was last played in a World Championship match by whom?

5.Kasparov was beaten in a game by a Super Computer last year in Philladelphia- what was the computer's name?

6.Who's autobiography is called "Achieving the Aim"?

7.In the world of chess which player do we associate with Mr. Edge?

8.Chess strategy - Passed Pawns must be .......? (fill in the well known saying)

9.Time trouble which player once lost all of his games in one tournament on time?

10.Openings: 1.e4 e6 2.d3 d5 3.Nd2 c5 4.g3 Name the opening.

 

 

GAME 7

1.Joel Lautier the French GM is fluent in about six langiages including Russian and Japanese - what is his connection with Japan?

2.1.e5 e5 2.f4 d5 - name this variation of the King's Gambit.

3.Viswanathan Anand is one of the world's top Grandmasters born in India where does he now live?

4.1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 d6 Which variation of the Spanish Opening is this?

5.Which player is the book "Fighting Chess" about?

6.Robert Hubner the German Grandmaster is the strongest western player of which oriental board game?

7.1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 - Name the opening.

8.John Speelman writes a chess column in which Sunday newspaper?

9.Chess strategy: In the King's Indian Classical Variation which side of the board does white usually play?

10.In addition to Russian Anatoly Karpov speaks English and one other European language - which?

 

 

GAME 8

1.The Zaitsev variation is most commonly associated with Anatoly Karpov, what opening does it come from?

2.Andrew Page may not be as famous as Jimmy - but what does Andrew Page do?

3.Openings - 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 - name the opening.

4.The Byrne Variation was played by Kasparov in game one of his 1990 match v Karpov from which opening does it come?

5.Name the opening 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5

6.In a swiss tournament a player after 10 rounds has a score of 'plus 2' how many points does he have?

7.Raymond Keene last played a tournament in which country?

8.Which subject did Viktor Kortchnoi study at Leningrad University?

9.English Grandmaster Micheal Adams likes his beer, in a tie breaking draw a couple of years ago he chose the number of drinks he had the night before and the number came out of the hat - what was the number?

10.Carlsbad, Carlsberg and Carlston - which was the chess tournament?

 

 

GAME 9

1.Lothar Shmidt the German Grandmaster is famous for having the largest what in chess?

2.Keith Arkell was once married to Susan Lalic present wife of GM Bogdan Lalic. Bill Hartston was once married to WIM Jana who then married another chessplayer - who?

3.1.Nf3 - Name the Opening.

4.Harry Golombek was chess columnist for which daily newspaper?

5.GM Miguel Illescas Cordoba's first language?

6.Who was Scotland's first o.t.b. Grandmaster? And the second?

7.Who's dad threatened to kill Nigel Short?

8.GM Granda Zuniga the Peruvian player has won the last two Wijk Aan Zee tournaments ahead of some of the world's best players - he has another job apart from being a chessplayer - what does he do?

9.Count O'Kelly de Galway was which country's leading player for many years?

10.Who wrote a three volume series called Complete Chess Strategy?

 

 

GAME 10

1.1.b4 name it.

2.Many novels have been written about chess but one of the best was the famous Psychological thriller "The Queen's Gambit". The author Walter Tevis also wrote two books which were made into successful films name either of these films.

3.Anatoly Karpov has never met Bobby Fischer in person? True or False?

4.1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 e6 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.Bg5 dxc4 - name the opening and the variation.

5.The Taimanov, The Richter Rauser and The Sozin are all variations of the Sicilian defense, but which one of these does black chose?

6.1.b3 - name the opening

7.Who is the official FIDE World Champion at present?

8.Paul Morphy was a qualified lawyer? True or False?

9.Which player did William Steinitz defeat to win the very first World Championship?

10.Who wrote "Modern Ideas In Chess"?

 

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