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 only piece which cannot move backwards is which?
A: The Bishop
B: The King
C: The knight
D: The Pawn
Question 2 £200
The Persian term “shāh māt” refers to what in the modern term?
A: The king is in check.
B: The king has been checkmated.
C: The king has just castled short.
D: The king has been stalemated.
Question 3 £300
The third official world champion was whom?
A: Capablanca
B: Euwe
C: Alekhine
D: Lasker
Question 4 £400
In Bullet Chess, how long does a player have to make all their moves?
A: 30 seconds
B: 60 seconds
C: 120 seconds
D: 180 seconds
Question 5 £500
The controversial world championship match between Karpov and Kasparov which began in 1984 only to be stopped in 1985 after how many games were played?
A: 44
B: 46
C: 48
D: 50
Question 6 £1,000
The 47th Olympiad will be held in October 2028, in which city?
A: Abu Dhabi
B: Tashkent
C: London
D:New York
Question 7 £2,000
The Lucerna position is an endgame which is defined by which piece?
A: Knight
B: Bishop
C: Rook
D: Queen
Question 8 £4,000
The player once considered the greatest never to become world champion, Paul Keres, was born in and would be chosen to represent which county on today’s world map?
A: Russia
B: Latvia
C: Lithunia
D: Estonia
Question 9 £8,000
9. Which female world champion once lost her title to Xie Jun?
A: Maya Chiburdanidze
B: Irina Levantina
C: Hou Yifan
D: Judit Polgar
Question 10 £16,000
Bodens mate is carried out with which piece(s)?
A: Knights
B: Bishops
C: A rook
D: A queen
Question 11 £32,000
The Book A century of British Chess was written by whom?
A: J. H. Blackburne
B: H. E. Atkins
C: G. E. Thomas
D: P. W. Sargeant
Question 12 £64,000
“Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it’s OK to lose. I don’t. You have to be merciless”. Is a quote from which contemporary player?
A: Wesley So
B: Hikaru Nakamura
C: Levon Aronin
D: Magus Carlsen
Question 13 £125,000
Despite being the strongest team the Soviets claimed to have ever faced. England at the 1988 Olmpiad lost to which lesser nation?
A: India
B: China
C: America
D: East. Germany
Question 14 £250,000
Fabiano Caruana’s peek rating was in classical chess came in October 2014. What was it?
A: 2024
B: 2034
C: 2044
D: 2054
Question 15 £500,000
In which city was a tournament abandoned due to the onset of WW1?
A: London
B. Mannheim
C. Manchester
D. Berlin
Question 16 £1,000,000
Who is the only player to play both Lasker and Karpov at classical chess (simuls cannot be counted)?
A: Botvinnik
B: Smyslov
C: Reshevsky
D: Najdorf
There was are. This bring to a conclusion the third of three such attempts. Please don’t feel dishearted that you didn’t win money and get on tv -it was fun right? Do tell me how you got on.
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