KVL Narayana

Answers to Chess Quiz

Question 1:

The opening was the French Defence in Levitsky versus Marshall, also known as the Gold Coins Game. Regarding the shower of Gold coins, it seems, Marshal said yes, but his wife denied it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levitsky_versus_Marshall

Question 2:

Vera Menchik (1906 -1944) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Menchik

Question 3:

Cleveland, a city in Ohio state, USA.

Question 4:

Adolf Anderssen (1818 – 1879). In 1851 the strongest chess player in the world was A. Anderssen. In the same year, A. Anderson was the strongest checker (draughts) player in the world. Andrew Anderson was a Scottish draughts (checkers) player and author who standardized the rules of the game. By the early 1820s he was considered the best draughts player in Scotland and was regularly challenged by foreign players. See Wikipedia

Question 5:

Carl Schlechter (1874 – 1918)

Question 6:

Three Games.

Question 7:

Mar del Plata. Kings Indian Defence, Mar del Plata Variation moves are 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.0-0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne7

Question 8:

Friedrich Samisch (at age 74) in the year 1969.

Question 9:

Mikhail Chigorin (1850 – 1908). In the 1889 New York Chess Tournament (Considered as the first International Chess Tournament of America), a 20 player Double Round Robin Chess tournament, Chigorin scored 27 wins.

Question 10:

The Blackburne Shilling Gambit or the Schilling-Kostić gambit is the name.

Question 11:

Dirk Van Foreest (1862 -1956)
Twice Dutch Chess Champion. Bother of Arnold Van Foreest (1863 – 1954) who was also twice Dutch Chess Champion, great-great-grandfather of Jorden Van Foreest and Lucas Van Foreest (both are Dutch Chess Champions, the former is number two Dutch after Anish Giri).

Question 12:

Mieses Variation
Named after Jacques Mieses (1865 – 1954)

Question 13:

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. f3

Question 14:

Geza Maroczy (1870 -1951)

Question 15:

Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)

Question 16:

Manhattan Chess Club (1877 – 2002)

Question 17:

Henri Grob (1904 – 1974), Switzerland

Question 18:

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 e5

Question 19:

Sir George Thomas (1881 – 1972)
World Badminton Men’s Team Championship Cup is named as Thomas Cup after him.

Question 20:

Lisa Lane (1933 – 2024)

Question 21:

Cuba. 1966 Chess Olympiad.
On 19^th November, on Capablanca's 78th Birthday, the mega display took place.

Question 22:

Averbakh, Yuri L
Stahlberg, Gideon vs Averbakh, Yuri L
Hoogovens · 1963 · Reti opening (A04) · 1-0

Question 23:

Rashid Nezhmetdinov (1912-1974)

Question 24:

Homo Ludens

Question 25:

Carl Jaenisch (1813-1872)