KVL Narayana

Chess Quiz

Question 1:

In the above position, Black played ....Qg3!! It seems, the spectators were so impressed by this move that they showered gold coins on the board. This may or may not be true, but it is a brilliant move. What is the opening played in this game?

Question 2:

We know Dr.Emanuel Lasker holds the record for the longest reigning World Chess Champion (for 27 years). Who among the women holds the record for the longest reigning World Women's Chess Champion?

Question 3:

In 1922, Capablanca played 103 games simultaneously with 102 wins and a draw (the best winning percentage in a simultaneous Chess Exhibition). Can you name the city in which this Simultaneous Chess Exhibition was held?

Question 4:

There were people who were considered as World Chess Champions even before FIDE was formed. One of those had more or less the same name as that of the Checker Champion of the World at that time. Can you name him?

Question 5:

Can you name this Chess Master?

Question 6:

The Cambridge Springs Defense of the Queen's Gambit Declined takes its name from the 1904 tournament of the same name. In how many games was it played in that tournament?

Question 7:

A variation of a Chess Opening is named after a city in Argentina. Can you name the city?

Question 8:

During the course of a year, a famous chess master lost all his 15 games in a chess tournament in Germany and all his 13 games in a chess tournament in Sweden. The strange thing is that he lost all these 28 games in time control. Can you name the chess master?

Question 9:

Who holds the record for the most number of wins in a chess tournament (not the percentage)?

Question 10:

Name the gambit with the sequence of moves 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nd4.

Question 11:

Max Euwe once said about a former Dutch Chess Champion who was a medical doctor by profession "he could have been World Champion if he had dedicated himself fully to chess". Can you name him?

Question 12:

There is a line in the Scotch Game (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nxc6 bxc6 6.e5) employed by a Master four times at Hastings 1895. The variation is named after him. Name the variation.

Question 13:

Can you give the moves of the Kmoch Variation in the Nimzo-Indian defence?

Question 14:

In a period of 10 months a chess master played 943 Simultaneous Chess games in Europe, with 825 wins, 113 draws and only 5 losses. Can you name him?

Question 15:

The first player and writer on Chess in America is a prominent person in history. Can you name him?

Question 16:

A beat B; B beat C;
C beat D; D beat E;
E beat F; F beat G;
G beat H; H beat I;
I beat J; J beat K;
K beat L; L beat M;
M beat A;

Where A to M are the 13 participants of a famous Chess Club Championship in 1934.
Can you name the Chess Club?

Question 17:

A country's national Chess Champion played Correspondence Chess (for about 26 years) with the readers of the leading national newspaper. He played 3614 CC games, won 2703, lost 430 and drew 481 games.
Can you name the player and the country?

Question 18:

Give the moves of Winawer Counter Gambit.

Question 19:

In 1923, British Chess Champion and All England Badminton Champion were the same person. Can you name him?

Question 20:

A former US Women's Chess Champion withdrew to return to America, from the Hastings Chess Tournament of 1962 after playing 4 rounds. The reason she said was that she couldn't concentrate because she was in love. Can you name her? Clue: she died about a year ago and was in the news.

Question 21:

380 masters each playing 18 opponents in a simultaneous Chess exhibition in an open-air resulting in the Mega Chess Display on 6,840 Boards happened in one of the Chess Olympiads. Can you name the host country of this Olympiad?

Question 22:

The Wizk aan Zee Chess tournament has a long history. In the 1963 tournament, a prominent GM was with the black pieces in the above position. Instead of capturing the white Bishop on g7, Black played ...Bh3 thinking of checkmating on g2. Qxh6+ came back as a shocker. Can you name the player with the black pieces?

Question 23:

"If he had the attack, he could kill anybody, including Tal. But my score against him was something like 8½ – ½ because I did not give him any possibility for an active game. In such cases he would immediately start to spoil his position because he was looking for complications."

This is a statement by GM Yuri Averbakh about whom?

Question 24:

'Homo Sapiens' (Sapiens means 'knowing') is the word used to refer to the Humans. What is the similar word to refer to Playing Humans?

Question 25:

"It is an imperishable monument of human wisdom; for it has required centuries to its erection, and to the completion of it in its actual state; while who can foresee how many new forms of attack and defence may yet thereto be added by generations to come?"

Who made this statement about King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Bc4)