Chess

Traps and Tricks

100

A trap in which any piece can not be moved because doing so will result in check or the capture of another powerful piece.

A: Pin

B: Pressure

C: Kick

A: Pin

200

A type of trap where two pieces are pressured, allowing a player to take one of the two on their next turn.

A: Double Attack

B: Fork

C: Skewer

B: Fork

300

What kind of checkmate is shown here?

A: Knight's Advance

B: Cornering

C: Smothered Mate

C: Smothered Mate

Indicated by a King surrounded by it's own pieces on every nearby tile and Knight mating King.

400

When a piece moves out of the way to uncover a check given by another piece.

A: Revealed check

B: Unveiled check

C: Discovered check

C: Discovered check

History

100

"Shah Mat" (Persian Origin) has been most closely translated to...

A: Queen Me

B: Checkmate

C: Stalemate

B: Checkmate

It translates to "The king is dead" or "the king is frozen".

200

The first World Chess Championship was held at the end of the 19th century in what year?

A: 1886

B: 1922 

C: 1987

A: 1886

300

What type of chessboard does the is the modern day FIDE chess championships and games played on?

A: Barleycorn

B: Staunton

C: Isle of Lewis

B: Staunton

400

Commonly regarded as the earliest form of chess dating back over 1500 years ago.

A: Xiangqi (China)

B: Chaturanga (India)

C: Shogi (Japan)

B: Chaturanga (India)

Famous People

100

This great American chess player has a record 8 United States chess championship titles, winning his first when he was just 14 years old. Most famously beat the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky to mark the end of the Soviet's chess superiority.

A: Samuel Reshevsky 

B: Bobby Fischer

C: Paul Morphy 

B: Bobby Fischer

200

How old was the youngest Chess Grandmaster Abhimanyu Mishra when he became a Grandmaster?

A: 10

B: 11

C: 12

C: 12

300

The first "official" world chess champion.

A: Louis de la Bourdonnais

B: Wilhelm Steinitz

C: Howard Staunton

B: Wilhelm Steinitz 

He the first "official" although Louis de la Bourdonnais and Howard Staunton both won "unofficial" titles before him.

400

Who is the current World Chess Champion?

A:  Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia)

B: Magnus Carlson (Norway)

C: Ding Liren (China)

C: Ding Liren

Crazy Chess

100

A blockbuster movie in the 2000s featured a young boy and his two friends playing this game of chess using voice-controlled, self guided pieces on both standard and life-sized chess boards.

A: Magic Chess

B: Wizard's Chess

C: Enchanted Chess

B: Wizard's Chess

200

What is a royal fork?

When the forking piece attacks a king, rook, and the queen

300

What is the name of this DEADLY tactic? 

Greek Gift Sacrifice

400

Which of these animals is NOT a chess piece in any variation of chess?

A: Camel

B: Elephant

C: Hippo

C:Hippo

Openings

100

What is the name of this opening set-up? (White to move)

A: Ruy Lopez Opening

B: Italian Game

C: English Opening

B: Italian Game

Characterized by E4, NF3, BC4.

200

What is the name of this opening sequence? (White to move)

A: Scotch Opening

B: Reti Opening

C: Slav Opening

A: Scotch Opening

Mostly characterized by two white pawns controlling their sides middle tiles.

300

What is the name of this defensive counter opening? (Black to move)

A: Dutch Defense

B: French Defense

C: Sicilian Defense

C: Sicilian Defense

(Black plays C5 in response to E4)

400

What is the name of the opening sequence being set up?

A: King's Gambit

B: Queen's Gambit

C: Budapest Gambit

B: Queen's Gambit

Characterized by D4 and C4 (and follow up moves NC3, E3, QF3)