I recently bought the book ‘The only quiz book you will ever need’ and found a section on chess. To my surprise I got two questions wrong (1 & 14). You can find all questions and answers below:
Chess: Miscellaneous 1 Quiz 5 (page 137)
- Which Word Chess Champion’s namesake ‘gun’, sees a queen backing up two rooks on the same file?
- In 2005, the first World Championship in Chessdarts was won by a future Women’s World Chess Champion and the 2004 BDO World Darts Champion. Name either.
- During the candidates tournament in Zurich 1953, which future World Chess Champion used his fine baritone voice to sing extracts from opera on Swiss radio?
- In 2003 a biography subtitled ‘It’s only me. was published about which late English chess grandmaster?
- Name either of the grandmasters whitewashed 6-0 in successive matches by Bobby Fischer in 1971 in the Candidates Tournament to find a challenger to the World Champion Boris Spassky?
- Whose reign as World Champion was first interrupted by Vassily Smyslov and then Mikhail Tal, making him the only man to hold the title in three nonsuccessive periods?
- Which leading proponent of hypermodern chess wrote the influential book Mein System in 1925?
- The men’s team from which country, with a population of just over 3 million, won the European Team Championship in 1999 and the World Team Championship in 2011 and the Chess Olympiad in 2006, 2008 and 2012?
- Containing a hidden chess player, it was a sensation for decades. By what name was the Automaton Chess-player constructed by Wolfgang Von Kempelen in the late 18th century better known?
- In May 2014, who achieved a record Elo rating of 2,882?
- What move is represented in chess notation by 0-0-0?
- The English Opening derives its name from its use by which English unofficial world champion, who played it during his 1843 match with Saint-Amant?
- Taking its name from English and Austrian players who analysed it in 1886, which chess opening is characterized by the opening moves 1. e4 c6?
- Which Dresden born millionaire grandmaster (1928-2013), heir to the Karl May publishing house refereed to the Fischer-Spassky match in Reykjavik in 1972?
- In 2010, who, at the age of 16, became the youngest ever Women’s World Chess Champion?
McCready’s bonus question:
One of the questions above contains a misnomer. Which question is it and what is the misnomer?
Answers:
- Alekhine -Alekhine’s gun
- Alexandra Kosteniuk or Andy Fordham
- Vassily Smysov
- Tony Miles (an anagram of his name)
- Mark Taimanov or Bent Larsen
- Mikhail Botvinnik
- Aaron Nimzowitch
- Armenia
- The Turk
- Magnus Carlsen
- Queenside or long castling
- Howard Staunton
- Caro-Kann defence
- Lothar Scmid
- Hou Yifan
Bonus Question answer: question 8 contains the term ‘Olympiad’, this is in fact a misnomer meaning the period of time between olympics rather than an event itself. Nearly 100 years on we are still waiting to have this changed in chess!
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