HOUSE OF PAINE chess quiz


1) Which former World Champion was married to a ballerina?
a) Spassky
b) Capablanca
c) Botvinnik
d) Karpov

2) Which former World Champion was an accomplished opera singer?
a) Smyslov
b) Euwe
c) Lasker
d) Steinitz

3) Who was the first chess writer published in America?
a) Paul Morphy
b) Thomas Jefferson
c) Benjamin Franklin
d) Max Lange

4) Which of the following was not a famous automaton from the past?
a) Mephisto
b) Turk
c) Bobot
d) Ajeeb

5) Who first played "Capablanca's Freeing Maneuver"?
a) Capablanca
b) Chigorin
c) Showalter
d) Anderssen

6) Bobby Fischer was born in which city?
a) New York
b) Boston
c) Chicago
d) Brooklyn

7) Who coined the term, "Hypermodern"?
a) Tarrach
b) Tartakower
c) Reti
d) Nimzovitch

8) Who was the first Women's World Champion?
a) Graf
b) Menchik
c) Rudenko
d) Rubtsova

9) Who won the first modern international tournament held in London in 1851?
a) Steinitz
b) Zukertort
c) Anderssen
d) Morphy

10) What is the 'newest' piece in the modern game of Chess?
a) Queen
b) Bishop
c) Rook
d) Knight

 

 

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