World Chess Champions

1. The Queen combines the power of which two pieces?

Rook & Bishop

Rook & Knight

Knight & Bishop

Rook & Bishop

2. Who was the first official World Chess Champion?

Wilhelm Steinitz

Garry Kasparov

Anatoly Karpov

Bobby Fishcer

3. What was the first machine player to overcome a reigning World Chess Champion?

CX2009

Deep Thought

Deep Blue

Hal

4. Who refused to defend his title, thus relinquishing the World Championship to Anatoly Karpov?

Garry Kasparov

Jude Acers

Bobby Fischer

Boris Spassky

5. Who won the Men's U.S. Chess Championship eight times, more than any player in history?

Garry Kasparov

Jude Acers

Anatoly Karpov

Bobby Fischer

6. What city hosted the first modern chess tournament?

Beijing

London

Paris

Moscow

7. What kind of chess did Walter Muir (1905-1999) play for a record-setting 75 years?

Blind Chess

Correspondence Chess

Outdoor Chess

Amateur Chess

8. What is the art of creating chess problems called?

Chess Insights

Chess Problems

Chess Composition

Chess Studies

9. In 2010, what city had the highest per capita chess grandmaster population in the world?

Beersheva, Israel

Berlin, Germany

Akron, Ohio

Beijing, China

10. Which of these is NOT an Anti-Sicilian?

Smith-Morra Gambit

Alapin Variation

Rossolimo Variation

Boden's Mate

11. What is the only country to defeat the former USSR twice in the Chess Olympiad?

China

Saudi Arabia

U.S.A.

France

12. How many of the 114 simultaneous games did Jude Acers win at the Louisiana State Fair in 1966?

114

None

113

110

13. How many checks were there in the recording-setting match between Wegner & Johnson in 1991?

67

6

29

141

14. Ben Franklin wrote in 1750 that in chess we learn foresight, circumspection and what else?

Caution

Patience

Strategy

Defense

15. What organization maintains the official rules of Chess?

World Chess Olympiad

World Chess Federation

FIDE

ICA

World Chess Champions

1. The Queen combines the power of which two pieces?

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What first name or nickname would you like us to use?

2. Who was the first official World Chess Champion?

3. What was the first machine player to overcome a reigning World Chess Champion?

4. Who refused to defend his title, thus relinquishing the World Championship to Anatoly Karpov?

5. Who won the Men's U.S. Chess Championship eight times, more than any player in history?

6. What city hosted the first modern chess tournament?

7. What kind of chess did Walter Muir (1905-1999) play for a record-setting 75 years?

8. What is the art of creating chess problems called?

9. In 2010, what city had the highest per capita chess grandmaster population in the world?

10. Which of these is NOT an Anti-Sicilian?

11. What is the only country to defeat the former USSR twice in the Chess Olympiad?

12. How many of the 114 simultaneous games did Jude Acers win at the Louisiana State Fair in 1966?

13. How many checks were there in the recording-setting match between Wegner & Johnson in 1991?

14. Ben Franklin wrote in 1750 that in chess we learn foresight, circumspection and what else?

15. What organization maintains the official rules of Chess?