Chess

Which chess piece can only move one square in any direction?

• Rook

• King

• Bishop

• Queen

On which place GM Konrad Szubski ended his run on 1st. Lo Gostynin chess cup

• 1st.

• 2nd.

• 3rd

• Last

What is a stealmate?

• Situation in which you can't move and you don't get checkmated

• It is a starting position on chessboard

• A final game on a tournament

• Shorter name of the best chess player

Who is the best polish chess player based on FIDE

• Paweł Teclaf

• Bartosz Rudecki

• Jan Krzysztof Duda

• Zbigniew Pakleza

Who is the current world chess champion?

• Ding Liren

• Hikaru Nakamura

• Levon Aronian

• Magnus Carlsen

Which sentence from the section “Chess Started Appearing On Social Media Feeds” explains how chess’ rise in popularity continued even after the first year of the coronavirus pandemic?

• Chess experienced a spike in popularity among adults during the coronavirus pandemic.

• Many people streamed "The Queen's Gambit" on Netflix, said Erik Allebest, one of the founders of Chess.com.

• After the coronavirus pandemic began, Chess.com's average daily user count of 1.5 million rose to between 5 million and 7 million, he said.

• As of April, Chess.com has been averaging 12 million users a day, Allebest said.

Read the list of sentences from the article. Which two sentences taken together provide the BEST evidence to support the idea that social media has helped chess become more popular among youths?

• 1 and 2

• 1 and 4

• 2 and 3

• 3 and 4

Read the claim. Chess is causing students to become too distracted at school. How would Kevin Nitta MOST likely respond to this claim?

• Nitta would agree by saying that students focused on their Chromebooks have turned the morning walk upstairs into chaos.

• Nitta would agree by saying that students in his class must have their phones taken away from them to stop playing chess.

• Nitta would disagree by saying that chess helps students’ mathematical abilities.

• Nitta would disagree by saying that students are now forming new clubs at school.

What is the author’s purpose for writing this article?

• to highlight a few teachers who love the effects chess has had on their students

• to emphasize how even something like chess can become a distraction if overplayed

• to describe potential causes and effects of young adults’ recent obsession with chess

• to explain why social media has a large influence on trends among young adults

Choose the right answer:

We write king castling in the scoresheet like follows:

• 0-0-0

• 0-0

• 0-

• 0_1