Quiz Games 21-30

Please note that all answers are based on 1996 !!

GAME 21

1.How often are the chess Olympiads held?

2.Philidor's defence is a defence to the e-pawn or the d-pawn?

3.Who were the players in the first ever outing of the Marshall Gambit (or attack) of the Ruy Lopez?

4.Arturo Pomar was a famous chess prodigy who beat amongst others Alechine - where does Pomar come from?

5.How many times has GM Julian Hodgson won the British Championship?

6.Who wrote "The Sicilian Defence e6 and d6 systems."?

7.Who was the chief editor of "Batsford Chess Endings"?

8.Who wrote "Spassky's 100 best Games" which was re-issued in paperback form by Batsford under the title "Boris Spassky Master Of Tactics"?

9.Which former World Champion co-authored a classic book on rook and pawn engames?

10.Only one World Championship match has ever been played in Spain - in which city and in which year?

 

 

 

 

GAME 22

1.Name Australia's top Grandmaster.

2.Name the Scottish player who thrashed Mickey Adams in the 1994 Moscow Olympiad?

3.Vera and Olga - name the sisters?

4.Gata Kamsky now plays for the United States after defecting from the USSR - which republic was he born in?

5.Top Shogi players in Japan earn on average more than the top ten chessplayers in the world? TRUE or FALSE

6.Sultan Khan was a famous chessplayer where did he come from? A) India B) Iraq or C) Saudi Arabia ?

7.Which Scottish player did Kasparov beat en-route to becoming World Junior Champion?

8.Tennis is the favourite pastime of which former World Champion?

9.Doctor Marion Tinsley played chess in his youth but at which game did he dominate the World Championship?

10.Mephisto computers are well known to chessplayers but what was the original Mephisto?

 

 

GAME 23

1.Which is the odd one out: A) Hungary B) USA C) England {CLUE=Chess Olympiads)

2.Which is the odd one out: A) Yasser Seirawan B)Keith Arkell C) Vladimir Kramnik {CLUE = TITLES}

3.Which is the odd one out: A) Nigel Short B)Mickey Adams C)Tony Miles {CLUE=CANDIDATES}

4.Until December 1996 Teletext chess was found on which page?

5.Who wrote the book "Soft Pawn"?

6.Which country has more Grandmasters per capita than any other country?

7.One of the most famous combinations of all time was played by Carlos Torre against Emmanual Lasker - what classification of combination was it?

8.Name the chess playing editor of the Sunday Telegraph who used to edit The Spectator.

9.Name the designer of the standard Staunton Pattern set.

10.The shortest possible game is called Fools mate - how many moves long is it?

 

 

GAME 24

1. 1.d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3.Nc3 Be7 4.Bf4 - name the variation of the QGD.

2.Who wrote Batsford Chess Openings?

3.Judith Polgar beat Bobby Fischer's record of being the youngest ever Grandmaster - however Polgar's record has since been beaten by another prodigy who?

4.Chess adages - a queen works better in conjunction with a knight or a bishop?

5.Capablanca lost his title to Alechine - where did the match take place?

6.Florencio Campomanes ex-FIDE President for many years - where does he come from?

7.Which world famous Grandmaster in a Candidates Match stunned an audience by getting up and asking the arbiter whether he could castle if his rook was attacked?

8.Norman Tebbit, Jeremy Handley and Brian McWhinney have all been Chairmen of the Conservative Party - but which of them is the chessplayer?

9.Name two players to have left New Zealand and to have subsequently represented England?

10.Boris Gelfand does not play for Russia, which republic of the former Soviet Union does he play for?

 

 

GAME 25

1.True or False: Nigel Short went to Cambridge University

2.'Think Like A Grandmaster' is a classic chess book - name the author.

3.Name the chess playing computer from Kubrick's "2001 a Space Odessey"

4.Karpov has played the Petrov defence in World Championship matches but name the player other than Karpov who last used the Petrov in a World Championship match?

5.Vladimir Kramnik was born in which year? A 1973 B 1975 C 1977

6.Who wrote "The Immortal Games of Capablanca" ?

7.Harry Weinstein now known as?

8.Who currently is Scotland's Highest Rated Player?

9.Who was the first English Grandmaster in the 1970's?

10.Assuming you know number 9 in which year exactly did he win the title? If you do not know guess!

 

 

GAME 26

1.Who said of his first wife that "We were like bishops of opposite colour"?

2.Who was Nigel Short's Second in his matches against Speelman, Gelfand, Karpov and Timman and briefly against Kasparov?

3.Who won the thematic Sicilian Tournament in Buenos Aries a couple of years ago?

4.In which year did Garry Kasparov first play Anatoly Karpov?

5.1.e4 g6 - Name the Opening

6.Samual Reshevsky was among the World's top players for many years in the forties and fifties. True or False he lost to Bobby Fischer in match play?

7.Nigel Short is a fabulous player he is also the only member of the top ten to hold a Gold Blue Peter Badge - true or false?

8.Stephen Fry the novelist and comedian plays chess - he also made a documentry about a chess Olympiad - where did the Olympiad take place?

9.Who wrote My System?

10.Since the early 1980's Garry Kasparov has been #1 in the rating lists except for three short months in 1996 who was number one then?

 

 

 

 

GAME 27

1.Kriegspiel is a chess variant - decribe how this game is played?

2.Jonathon Rowson the Scottish International Master whilst in Hungary ran into another chessplayer who was this?

3.France has an amazingly talented junior at the moment called Etienne Bacrot, he is just 13 and in September 1996 demolished a Grandmaster 5 - 1 in a match - who was the GM?

4.Who said "No position is so bad that it does not offer some hopes of mounting a successful defence?"

5.What is "The Greek Gift" ?

6.Who said famously "With a knight on f8 you will never be mated?"

7.Which kind of mate is known as Philidor's Legacy?

8.Which player has won the British Championships most often?

9.Anatoly Karpov is at 45 the official FIDE World Champion. Who was his last challenger?

10.1.e4 c5 2.c3 - name the variartion of the Sicilian Defence.

 

 

GAME 28

1.Bayern Munich is a multi sport club in Bavaria probably best known for its football and basketball teams, however its chess team has the best record of any club in the German chess Bundisleague. It has as its board one Germany's number one native born player - who is he?

2.Petrosian and Kortchnoi were bitter enemies - what innovation to chess tables was introduced during one of their matches?

3.Which player was involved in the Great Yoghurt Scandel?

4.Earlier this year (1996) prodigy Luke McShane defeated a Grandmaster for the first time who was the GM?

5.David Bronstein drew a match with Botvinnik for the World Championship - in which year?

6.The Hennig Von Shara Gambit arises in which opening?

7.Steinitz was not only a great player but also the founder of modern chess theory - who said of him "He has shown us all how to play chess."

8.Who 'composed' the fictisious game in the musical "Chess"?

9.Name Sweden's strongest woman player.

10.Name the last British player to play against Bobby Fischer?

 

 

GAME 29

1.Who wrote the series entitled "The Open Game in Action" "The Semi-open game in action" "The Closed oppnings in action" and "The Semi-closed openings in action"?

2.The recent Chess Olympiad in Armenia (1996) was won by which country?

3.Lajos Portsich the Hungarian Grandmaster was that country's strongest player until who superceeded him?

4.IM Malcolm Pein is the Editor of which chess magazine founded by BH Wood?

5.What did B stand for in BH Wood's name?

6.'Sight of the board' is a term to decribe what?

7.Both Spassky and Karpov have said that they thought Capablanca the greatest player in chess history - who did Bobby Fischer choose when asked the question?

8.Which German player of the 1920's and 30's played for the World Championship twice and lost both times?

9.Name Anatoly Karpov's favourite hobby?

10.Accurately name in algebraic notation the Italian Diagonal.

 

 

GAME 30

1.Who wrote "The Unknown Alechine"?

2.The last really strong USSR Championship was held in 1988, two players tied for first place and no agreement could be reached about arrangements for a play off - who were the two players?

3.Nigel Short has been beaten by Kasparov 18 times in games played at long play - how many times has Nigel beaten the Kasparov?

4.What opening was played again and again and again by both players in the Capablanca v Alechine World Championship match 1927?

5.Who holds the record for the longest run of unbeaten games in tournament and match play by a Grandmaster is it A) Tal B) Petrosian C) Karpov ?

6.Who wrote an interesting book entitled "Becoming A Grandmaster" ?

7.Deep Blue the Super-computer that Kasparov played in 1996 was developed by which computer company?

8.Who said "The only way to learn to play chess is by studying master games." ?

9.Informator publishes the best of GM and IM games three times a year - where is it published?

10.The last question: Bobby Fischer launched his new game "Fischerandom" in Argentina in 1996 - what UK news programme covered the story and interviewd Danny King and Jon Speelman about the new game?