History
The FIDE world chess champion of 2023
Who is Ding Liren?
Famously quoted as Levy Rozman (GothamChess)'s favorite opening to play.
What is the Caro-Kaan?
A piece cannot move (at all) because another piece is disallowing it to
What is an absolute pin?
This is the term for a player who has reached the title of Grandmaster, the highest title awarded by FIDE.
What is a Grandmaster?
Most legendary chess player in Chess Club history.
Who is Adrian Chan?
The current 2 chess players fighting for 2024 FIDE world chess champion title
Who is Ding Liren and Gukesh Dommaraju
This opening begins with the moves 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5.
What is the Ruy Lopez/Spanish?
The game ends in a draw. The next player to move cannot move any piece without it being illegal.
What is stalemate?
This chess notation system uses letters and numbers to describe moves and positions on the board.
What is Algebraic notation?
Anlan Xu's peak chess ELO
What is 1400 ELO?
FIDE's official name
What is The International Chess Federation?
The most popular opening choice from Magnus Carlsen
What is the Ruy Lopez/Spanish?
This checkmate can be made with only 2 rows/columns of the board.
What is backrank checkmate?
This famous chess player famously said, "Chess is life," and was known for his unorthodox style and controversial personality.
Who is Bobby Fischer?
Any of the 4 people who reached the top 4 in Justin's chess tournament.
Who is Ethan Huang, Andrew Zhou, Adrian Chan, Justin Tang
The only person who beat Fischer
Who is Boris Spassky?
The number of openings with the word Indian in it (Eg. Nimzo-Indian Defense)
The king is trapped with the queen and another piece delivering a checkmate.
What is Kiss of Death?
The first official World Chess Champion was crowned in this year.
The number of chess club leaders who have exceeded 1500 ELO
What is the number 3?
The year and player that the first, last and only time a game in FIDE world chess championship has a player ever lost by checkmate
When was 1929, who was Alexander Alekhine?
By move 3, the possible number of variations white can play in the Caro Kaan's Advance Variation
What is the number 6?
Used to describe a quick attack on the f7- or f2-square early in the game.
What is Blitzkrieg?
The pieces are randomly placed in the starting ranks, but everything else is the same as standard chess.
What is Chess960?
All original founding Chess Club leaders.
Who is Adrian, Anlan, Jasper, Samuel, Colin, Justin and Ethan?