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Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
How many squares does a chessboard have?
65
32
64
99
Who were the players of the famous "Evergreen Game"?
Adolf Anderssen
vs
Jean Dufresne
Paul Morphy
vs
Howard Staunton
Wilhelm Steinitz
vs
Emanuel Lasker
Jose Raul Capablanca
vs
Alexander Alekhine
How many moves was the longest known chess game?
101
182
231
269
What is it called when a player cannot defend an attack against their king?
Check
Chess
Checkchess
Checkmate
The quickest possible checkmate is in:
2 moves
1 move
3 moves
4 moves
Where did chess originate?
India
Russia
Italy
France
What does the word "checkmate"/"shah mat" mean in Persian?
King is alone
King is hopeless
King needs help
King is dead
What is the earliest known predecessor of chess?
Checkers
Ludo
Chaturanga
Go
Approximately how old is the game of chess?
Around 1500 years
Around 300 years
Around 600 years
More than 5000 years
Who was the first official World Chess Champion?
Wilhelm Steinitz
Garry Kasparov
Robert James Fischer
Paul Morphy
What is the common abbreviation of the international chess federation?
FIA
WCF
IFC
FIDE
What is the rating system that measures a player's strength called?
ELA
ELO
ALO
FILO
Other than world champion, what is the highest title that a chess player can earn?
Super Master
Extra Master
Grand Slam Master
Grandmaster
What determines who goes first in a chess game?
Coin flip
Whoever arrives at the board first
Black always goes first
White always goes first
Who was the first unofficial World Chess Champion?
Adolf Anderssen
Paul Morphy
Howard Staunton
Akiba Rubenstein
Who invented the folding chessboard?
a librarian
a priest
an accountant
a lawyer
What was the first computer to beat a grandmaster?
Deep Think
Super Computer
Deep Thought
Deep Chess
Which is the strongest chess engine to date?
AlphaZero
Leela Chess Zero
Houdini
Stockfish AMI HCNNUE
What is chess played by post or e-mail called?
Long-Distance Chess
Correspondence Chess
Open Chess
Interactive Chess
How many games of chess are possible?
10^120
10^10^10
10^10^50
10^260
What is the most popular opening in chess at the grandmaster level?
Scotch Game
Ruy Lopez Opening
London System
Sicilian Defense
What is the most popular opening played in online chess?
Fried Liver Attack
Falkbeer Countergambit
Evans Gambit
Greco Gambit
In which country is chess the most popular?
United States of America
Azerbaijan
China
Russia
Who is the highest-rated grandmaster from Azerbaijan?
Arkadij Naiditsch
Garry Kasparov
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Teimour Radjabov
Who is the highest-rated grandmaster from China?
Ding Liren
Wang Hao
Li Chao
Gao Rui
Who is the highest-rated grandmaster from the United States of America?
Fabiano Caruana
Robert James Fischer
Wesley So
Hikaru Nakamura
Who is the highest-rated chess player from Russia?
Boris Spassky
Anatoly Karpov
Alexander Alekhine
Vasily Smyslov
Who is the highest-rated chess player of all time?
Garry Kasparov
Magnus Carlsen
Ding Liren
Alireza Firouzja
Who was the World Chess Champion for the longest amount of time?
Magnus Carlsen
Emanuel Lasker
Max Euwe
Anatoly Karpov
Who is the youngest chess player to ever defeat Magnus Carlsen?
Nihal Sarin
Sergey Karjakin
Rameshbabu Pragnanandha
Vidit Gujrathi
