Following a distinct shortage of correct answers to last year’s quiz, it has been decided to make this year’s a little easier. In fact, it is so easy that if you feel too embarrassed to have a go yourself, pass it on to the nearest two year old and if it’s too easy for him or her, give it to the dog. The questions are designed so that everyone with the most basic knowledge of the game can score eight or nine out of ten but can you get all ten correct?
- Where was the 1972 World Chess Championship between Fischer and Spassky played?
- Who comes next in this sequence: Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca…….?
- Which journalist is the current President of the English Chess Federation?
- The musical ‘Chess’ was the result of an unlikely but successful partnership between which three men?
- The recently-completed London Chess Classic was the third and final stage in the Chess Grand Tour. Where were the first two events held?
- Which former British chess champion has more recently been seen offering his views on television programmes in Gogglebox?
- Who was the FIDE President who famously stopped the Karpov-Kasparov World Championship in 1984?
- What German word is used to describe a situation where whatever move a player makes will by force weaken his position?
- Here are a couple of tantalising questions to finish off with….The Erasmus High School, Brooklyn included among its pupils at one point in the 1950s a future World Chess Champion and a future Oscar-winning actress and singer. Name them.
- Which former world chess champion played 86 games unbeaten between July 15 1972 and April 26 1973?
Good luck and Happy Christmas to all our visitors. Answers in the New Year.