Quiz Games 11-20

Please note that all answers are based on 1996 !!

GAME 11

1.Only one player has won both the World Chess Championship and The Offical World Blitz Championship Who?

2.In which opening is there a variation known as the "Fingerslip Variation?"

3.True or false Canada has produced a Candidate in the last twenty years?

4.When Kasparov came through the Candidates matches to meet Karpov in 1984 he defeated three top players in matches - Kortchnoi and Smyslov were two of them, who was the other?

5.1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3. c3 - name this opening?

6.In the film "Searching For Bobby Fischer" which British actor played the part of Bruce Pandolfini?

7.Luis Rentero is well known in the chess world for what?

8.In the Match Kasparov - Karpov 1990 New York and Lyons, Kasparov re-introduced an opening into World Championship play - which opening was this?

9.Larry Christianson is a Grandmaster but which country does he come from?

10.Yuri Averbach the famous Soviet theoritician's realm of expertise is what?

 

 

GAME 12

1.The Catalan opening was introduced in a tournament in Barcelona, but who was the player who first played it?

2.Bessel Kok is a well known name in chess - what did he do?

3.Dr. Tarrasch has a long running feud with Nimzowich - what kind of Doctor was Tarrasch?

4.Who wrote the classic chess book "Masters Of The Chessboard?"

5.Emmanuel Lasker was the second official World Champion Edward Lasker was a famous American player and author - were the two related?

6.Where would you find a Pioneer's Palace?

7.Name the opening 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5

8.GM Joe Gallagher was born in England but is now a naturalised citizen of another country and plays for that side in Olympiads - which?

9.Grandmaster Henry Mecking comes from which country?

10.The Hubner Variation comes from which opening?

 

 

GAME 13

1.Name one player other than Kortchnoi who played a match for the FIDE World Championship in the 20th Century and to not have held the title

2.Shirov was born and grew up in Latvia but for which country does he now play top board?

3.The Goring Gambit is a variation of which opening?

4.Arpold was the Christian name of which well know figure in the chess world?

5.Who wrote "Championship Chess"?

6.Which English GM is Bobby Fischer not too chuffed with for messing up "My 60 Memorable Games" ?

7.Vladimir Nabikov wrote a famous novel about chess what was it called?

8.In the 1970's the BBC ran a televised chess tournament it ran for four seasons what was the programme called?

9.Which ex-World Champion lost to Raymond Keene at Hastings in the 1960's?

10.Name Italy's top chess magazine.

 

 

GAME 14

1.Who won the first international chess tournament?

2.Name the American player who tragically died of syphilis?

3.Name the 1996 British Chess Champion?

4.Name the US player who gave up professional chess to concentrate on his career as a psychiatrist?

5.1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.cxd5 cxd5 4.c4 Name the variation of the Caro-Khan

6.The book "A Treasury Of British Chess Masterpieces" was written by whom?

7.Boris Spassky was once banned from playing competitive chess by the USSR Chess Federation - why?

8.Who wrote the book "BEST CHESS GAMES OF THE 1970's"?

9.Who won St.Petersburg 1914?

10.Who ran the chess school of which Bareev is the most famous ex-pupil?

 

 

GAME 15

1.Bobby Fischer withdrew while leading the 1967 Interzonal tournament - where was this tournament held - town and country please.

2.Jonathon Levitt was the originator of the "Clarendon Court" variation - how did it get its name?

3.Which club has won the Glasgow League Division one championship most times?

4.If two players's ratings are separated by 200 ELO points what % score would the higher rated player be statistically expected to attain over his opponent?

5.Beer and chess make a fine combination - but which brewery sponsored Nigel Short in the early 1990's?

6.Name the most famous American problem composer.

7.The Isle of Lewis Chessmen are not kept permanently in Scotland where are they exactly?

8.The Meran variation comes from which opening?

9.Artur Yusopov is the most famous pupil of which top Russian trainer?

10.Who wrote an excellent book entitled "The Younger School Of Soviet Chess"?

 

 

GAME 16

1.Which International Master who represented Scotland in International competition had a famous bet to do with computers?

2.Name a Grandmaster who has also represented his country at football?

3.Name the two Grandmasters who both lost 0-6 to Bobby Fischer in Candidate's matches.

4.In Seville 1987 Kasparov had to win the last game to draw the match and retain his title what opening did he use?

5.Michael Stean the English GM wrote an introduction to positional play called "Simple Chess" - what does Stean do for a living?

6.1.d4 f5 2.e4 - Name the variation of the Dutch Defence?

7.Which country does GM MIHAI SUBA come from?

8.Grandmaster Eugenio Torre comes from which country?

9.When Bobby Fischer palyed 1.c4 against Spassky in game six of the world Championship 1972 he surprised almost everybody. However Fischer had played 1.c4 against another two other players in the Candidiates tournament at Palma - name one of them.

10.1.d4 d5 2.c4 e5 - name this opening.

 

 

GAME 17

1.Lev Poluguyevsky the Soviet Grandmaster died in which country?

2.England has produced one World Champion at Correspondence Chess who?

3.The film Knight Moves was a thriller set around a Chess Candidates tournament - the hero was played by Christopher Lambert - what was his first big film hit?

4.Who has been the most successful Tournament player of all time?

5.Who wrote "The Ideas Behind the Chess Openings" ?

6.True or false - Bobby Fischer once played a consultation game on BBC Radio?

7.Jan Timman the Dutch Grandmaster played Nigel Short in the Candidates Final in 1992 - which country did this match take place in?

8.If you have grade of 150 BCF what rating does this equate to?

9.Vessalin Topalov is currently rated number 3 in the world - where does he come from?

10.Name the winner of the famous 'Evergreen game'?

 

 

GAME 18

1.Which World Champion had a cat called Chess?

2.Zugswang is an important feature of endgame play - which piece cannot lose a tempo?

3.Only one game in a World Championship match has ended in stalemate - it was also the longest game in a World Championship match - name the players.

4.Sir Jeremy Morse is a famous sponsor of chess and an expert at chess problems - what's his job?

5.Rubinstein has a reputation of being among the greatest players never to have won the World Championship, when did he die? A 1921 B 1941 C 1961?

6.Name the opening 1.Nf3 c5 2.e4 ?

7.Artur Yusopov the Russian Emigre has something in common with Ronald Regan what?

8.Who wrote "Common Sense In Chess"?

9.Who had the nickname "The Chess Machine?"?

10.Ulf Anderssen was in the top ten from the mid 70's to the mid 80's - where does he come from?

 

 

GAME 19

1.GM Ludek Pachman defected to Germany after many years as a dissadent in his own country which country did he come from?

2.In 1937 Stockholm held the Chess Olympiad, the then World Champion played many fine games including a classic double rook and pawn endgame against the Hungarian Mikenas - what country did the World Champion represent?

3.What percentage does white generally score in chess?

4.The curent strongest woman player?

5.1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Bb4+ name the opening.

6.Who was the first player to beat both Kasparov and Karpov in the same tournament?

7.Jim Plassket, Nigel Davies , David Norwood and Daniel King which is the odd one out?

8.Which US player was the last to win the World Junior Championship?

9.Xie Xun the ex - Woman's World Champion is from which country?

10.True or false - Blindfold chess was at one time banned in the USSR?

 

 

GAME 20

1.Hodgson v Norwood 1992 British Championship - Norwood said before the game "May the Best Man win." What did he mean?

2.The word Zwishenshug comes from which language?

3.The Chess Player's Handbook - Who was the Author?

4.Vassily Smyslov played Botvinnik for the World Championship three times - TRUE OR FALSE?

5.In the Candidates cycle 1987 -1990 Speelman beat Seirawan and Short - who knocked him out of the competition?

6.Vlastimil Hort had a winning position in a game against Spassky which had he won it he would have proceeded in the Candidates unfortunately for him something happened?

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

8.The biggest ever chess purse was A) $2,000,000 B) $3,000,000 or C) $5,000,000?

9.Which language does the word 'luft' come from?

10.The Piagorsky Cup was held twice in the 1960's in which country?