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
Which piece sits aside both the king and queen at the start of the game?
A: Pawn
B: Bishop
C: Knight
D: Rook
Question 2 £200
Which of these is not an example of under-promotion?
A: promoting a pawn to a queen.
B: promoting a pawn to a knight.
C: promoting a pawn to a bishop.
D: promoting a pawn to a rook.
Question 3 £300
The term zwischenzug means what in chess?
A: an announcement of stalemate.
B: an inability to make any good moves
C: an adjustment of a piece
D: an in-between move
Question 4 £400
Which former world champion has a term involving a weapon named after him?
A: Steinitz
B: Lasker
C: Alekhine
D: Kasparov
Question 5 £500
Which maneuver can be classified as artificial or by hand?
A: castling
B: double check
C: pawn promotion
D: en passant
Question 6 £1,000
After 1. d4 is played, if black then plays 1. …b5, this is known as what?
A: The Czech Defence
B: The Hungarian Defence
C: The Austrian Defence
D: The Polish Defence
Question 7 £2,000
The fifth official world champion was from which country?
A: Germany
B: The Netherlands
C: Cuba
D: The Soviet Union
Question 8 £4,000
Former world champion Magnus Carlsen’s real first name is not Magnus but what?
A: Henrick
B: Oscar
C: Sven
D: Per
Question 9 £8,000
How many non-european presidents has F.I.D.E had?
A: 1
B: 2
C: 3
D: 4
Question 10 £16,000
Sans Voir is a term which refers to what?
A: Blindfold chess
B: Kriegspiel
C: 960 chess
D: Bughouse chess
Question 11 £32,000
The F.I.D.E 2004 World Championship between Vladimir Kramnik and Peter Leko was held in which country?
A: Germany
B: Italy
C: Austria
D: Switzerland
Question 12 £64,000
Who was the world blitz champion of 2021?
A: Hikaru Nakamura
B: Magnus Carlsen
C: Maxime Vachier Lagrave
D: Sergey Karjakin
Question 13 £125,000
Who, in 1991, was the last player to become Soviet Union Chess Champion?
A: Evgeny Bareev
B: Artashes Minasian
C: Alexander Beliavsky
D: Garry Kasparov
Question 14 £250,000
According to rule 7.3 of the 2023 F.I.D.E rule book. If a game has started with colours reversed, what is the most amount of moves that can be played by both players before the game is discontinued and a new game restarted?
A: 9
B: 10
C: 11
D: 12
Question 15 £500,000
The celerbated problemist Genrikh Kasparyan, known to be one of the greatest end-game study problemists of all time, had which title in classical chess?
A: CM
B: FM
C: IM
D: GM
Question 16 £1,000,000
Who won the first World Open held in New York, 1973?
A: Bent Larsen
B: Pal Benko
C: John Fedorowicz
D: Walter Browne
So there you are, well done if you did well. No money once again I’m afraid owing to being a poor English teacher. I do put thought into this, so if you got more than half right, you did well. Hope you enjoyed, you might even want to give it a shot yourself! 🙂
Mark. J. McCready
McCreadyandChess 