Answers Games 11-20

 

GAME 11

1.(TAL)

2.(FRENCH)

3.(TRUE KEVIN SPRAGETT)

4.(ALEXANDER BELYAVSKY)

5.(PONZIANI)

6.(BEN KINGSLEY)

7.(SPONSOR OF LINARES SUPERTOURNAMENTS AND MATCHES)

8. (THE SCOTCH)

9.(USA)

10.(ENDGAME)

 

GAME 12

1.(TARTAKOWER)

2.(He was the founder of the GMA and sponsor of lots of tournaments - he is the chairman of the SWIFT organisation.)

3.(MEDICAL).

4.(RETI)

5.(YES)

6.(RUSSIA or USSR)

7.(GRUNFELD DEFENCE)

8.(SWITZERLAND)

9.(BRAZIL)

10.(NIMZO INDIAN)

 

GAME 13

1.(BRONSTEIN, TIMMAN, BOGOLYIBOV, SCHLECTER, MARSHALL)

2.(SPAIN)

3.(THE SCOTCH)

4. (ARPOLD ELO - ORIGINATOR OF THE RATING SYSTEM).

5.(BOTVINNIK - HIS FIRST BOOK)

6.(JOHN NUNN)

7."The Defense."

8.(THE MASTER GAME) .

9.(BOTVINNIK - HE LEFT A ROOK EN PRISE)

10.(TORRE E CABALLO)

 

GAME 14

1.(ANDERSSON - LONDON 1851)

2.(PILLSBURY)

3.(CHRIS WARD)

4.(RUBAN FINE)

5.(PANOV BOTVINNIK)

6. (FRED REINFIELD)

7.(He applied to live in France for a year - he was allowed to go on condition that he did not play competitive chess.)

8.(JONATHON SPEELMAN)

9.(EMMANUAL LASKER)

10. (SMYSLOV)

 

GAME 15

1.(SOUSSE TUNISIA)

2.(NAMED AFTER THE HIGH RISE BLOCK OF FLATS WHERE HE LIVES)

3.(POLYTECHNIC 19 TIMES)

4.(75%)

5.(CARLSBERG)

6.(HAROLD LLOYD)

7.(THE BRITISH MUSEUM)

8.(Semi-Slav)

9. (Dvoretsky)

10. (ANDREW SOLTIS)

 

GAME 16

1.(DAVID LEVY)

2.(HANSEN OF NORWAY)

3.(MARK TAIMANOV AND BENT LARSEN)

4. (RETI)

5.(HE IS A BANKER)

6.(STAUNTON GAMBIT)

7.(ROMANIA)

8.(PHILLIPINES)

9.(Polugayevsky and Panno).

10.(Albin Counter Gambit)

 

GAME 17

1.(FRANCE)

2.(JONATHON PENROSE)

3.(HIGHLANDER)

4.(ANATOLY KARPOV)

5.Ruban Fine.

6.(TRUE see book CHESS TREASURY OF THE AIR)

7.(SPAIN - EL ESCORIAL)

8.(1800)

9.(BULGARIA).

10.(Anderrsson)

 

GAME 18

1.(ALECHINE)

2.(A KNIGHT) It can never lose a tempo, if a knight is on g1 it will never be able to land on f3 in an odd number of moves starting from g1.

3.(Kortchnoi and Karpov)

4. HE IS CHAIRMAN OF LLOYDS BANK)

5.(C)

6.SICILIAN DEFENCE

7.(HE HAS BEEN SHOT )

8.(EMMANUEL LASKER)

9.(CAPABLANCA)

10.(SWEDEN)

 

GAME 19

1.(CZECHOSLOVAKIA)

2.(HOLLAND - Euwe)

3.(55%)

4.(JUDITH POLGAR)

5.(Bogo Indian)

6.(VASSILY IVANCHUK)

7.(NIGEL DAVIES - HE IS WELSH THE OTHERS ARE ENGLISH).

8.(YASSER SEIRAWAN)

9.(CHINA)

10.(TRUE!)

 

GAME 20

1.(HODGSON WAS GETTING MARRIED THE WEEK AFTER AND NORWOOD WAS TO BE HIS BEST MAN)

2.(GERMAN)

3.(STAUNTON)

4.(TRUE) Drew the first won the second and lost the return match.

5.(JAN TIMMAN)

6.(HE FROZE AND LOST ON TIME)

7.(PIRC)

8.(C Spassky - Fischer 1992)

9.(GERMAN)

10.(USA)

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