Unlike the popular gameshow, features such as ‘ask the audience, phone a friend, and 50/50‘ are inapplicable here -sincere apologies. Unfortunately, there’s no money to be made from this also. 🙂 However, do your best but do it alone please -no googling!
Question 1 £100
The knight moves in a way that corresponds to which letter of the alphabet?
A: C-shape
B: J-shape
C: L-shape
D: W-shape
Question 2 £200
en passant involves the capture of what?
A: A Pawn
B: A Bishop
C: A Rook
D: A Knight
Question 3 £300
Scholar’s mate is known to be delivered in how many moves?
A: 2
B: 4
C: 6
D: 8
Question 4 £400
Which organization was formed in 1993 in order to rival FIDE?
A: BBC
B: NBA
C: ECF
D: PCA
Question 5 £500
The mechanical what was invented in the 18th century and claimed to be the first chess engine/machine?
A: The mechanical Italian
B: The mechinical Swede
C: The mechanical Greek
D: The mechanical Turk
Question 6 £1,000
The Game and Playe of the Chesse was printed in which century by William Caxton?
A: 13th century
B: 15th century
C: 17th century
D: 19th century
Question 7 £2,000
Who wrote an autobiography entitled ‘Achieving the Aim’?
A: V. Smyslov
B: Y. Averbakh
C: M. Bovinnik
D: M. Taimanov
Question 8 £4000
Which variant of chess was invented in 1953 and took its name from the main character of a popular 19th century novel?
A: Alice chess
B: Phileas chess
C: Rebecca chess
D: Oliver chess
Question 9 £8000
Ding Liren was not the 1st Asian world champion. Which was he?
A: The 2nd
B: The 3rd
C: The 4th
D: The 5th
Question 10 £16,000
In which year did FIDE adopt the ELO rating system?
A: 1966
B: 1968
C: 1970
D: 1972
Question 11 £32,000
In Kasparov’s ‘Immortal Game’ in 1999 against GM Topalov in which he sacced a rook, what defence did Topalov adopt?
A: Pirc Defence
B: Caro-Kann
C: French Defence
D: Sicilian Defence
Question 12 £64,000
Which Dutch player once said the disapproved ‘”Chess is and will always be a game of chance.”
A: Jan Timman
B: Loek Van Der Wiel
C: Max Euwe
D: Jan Hein Donner
Question 13 £125,000
Which country has held the Chess Olympiad more than any other?
A: Germany
B: Russia
C: England
D: Phillipines
Question 14 £250,000
Who was the Soviet champion in 1971?
A: Petrosian
B: Savon
C: Stein
D: Karpov
Question 15 £500,000
Which world class American player’s death was described in The New York Times as an illness contracted by the over-exertion of his memory cells’?
A: F. D. Marshall
B: Harry Nelson Pilsbury
C: James Mason
D: Isaac Kashdan
Question 16 £1,000,000
Which of the following cities did the 1907 World Championship match between Lasker and Marshall not take place in?
A: New York
B: Philadelphia
C: Memphis
D: Boston
Mark. J. McCready
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