Chess Quiz

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. Which of these is not the name of a chess opening? Cabbage Attack Orangutan Abracadabra Opening Baby Orangutan

2. Who was the youngest World Chess Champion? Garry Kasparov Jose Raul Capablanca Bobby Fischer Max Euwe

3. Who was the second youngest World Chess Champion? Garry Kasparov Jose Raul Capablanca Max Euwe Mikhail Tal

4. How many ways are there to win a game of chess, other than by default? 1 3 2 4

5. How many ways are there to draw a game? 8 9 3 6

6. Who defeated Garry Kasparov for the first BrainGames World Championship? Anatoly Karpov Joel Benjamin Bobby Fischer Vladimir Kramnik

7. What real-life grandmaster's life was the musical 'Chess' based on? Max Euwe Bobby Fischer Viktor Korchnoi Garry Kasparov

8. In what city is the World Open, perhaps the largest tournament in the world, held every year? Chicago, Illinois Moscow, Russia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania New York City, New York

9. In what variant of chess does White start out with only a King and four pawns while Black starts with a whole army? Battleship Chess Monster Chess Bughouse Suicide Chess

10. How many moves is the shortest possible checkmate? 5 3 2 4

11. In what state was Paul Morphy raised? Louisiana Pennsylvania New York North Carolina

12. Paul Morphy was the first unofficial world champion. Who was the first official one? Adolf Anderssen Wilhelm Steinitz Boris Spassky Max Euwe

13. What game is chess thought to have originated from? Shogi Chaturanga Xiangqi Go

14. True or false? White has always been the first to move in a chess game. True False

15. Which of these is not a valid time control for a chess game? 40/90 SD/30 30/120 G/60 G/5 G/60 SD/30