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Hi everyone,
Here is a cool chess quiz to cheer you up. The weekend is just round the corner and you need not stress too much about work. Let chess make you happy.
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Hi everyone,
Here is a cool chess quiz to cheer you up. The weekend is just round the corner and you need not stress too much about work. Let chess make you happy.
Question 1
Who is this chess player... and what is her claim to fame?
Question 2
Can you guess when this game was played and between whom? (If you want to use this Chess King game player for your own blog just get your copy at www.chess-king.com.)
[...] 1.e4 c5 2.¤f3 ¤c6 3.¤c3 e5 4.¥c4 d6 5.d3 ¥e7 6.O-O ¤f6 7.¤h4 ¤d4 8.g3 ¥g4 9.f3 ¥e6 10.¥g5 ¤g8 11.¥xe7 ¤xe7 12.f4 exf4 13.¥xe6 fxe6 14.¦xf4 ¢d7 15.¤f3 ¦f8 16.¦xf8 £xf8 17.¤xd4 cxd4 18.¤e2 £f6 19.c3 ¦f8 20.¤xd4 ¤c6 21.£f1 £xf1+ 22.¦xf1 ¦xf1+ 23.¢xf1 ¤xd4 24.cxd4 d5 25.¢f2 ¢e7 26.¢f3 ¢f6 27.h4 g6 28.b4 b5 29.¢f4 h6 30.¢g4
Question 3
From where are these lines taken?
A: Do you ever feel like a chess piece yourself? In a game being played against your will.
Who is this chess player... and what is her claim to fame?
Question 2
Can you guess when this game was played and between whom? (If you want to use this Chess King game player for your own blog just get your copy at www.chess-king.com.)
? (2757) - ? (2804)
Result: 1-0
Site: ?
Date: ?
Question 3
From where are these lines taken?
A: Do you ever feel like a chess piece yourself? In a game being played against your will.
B: Do you?
A: Constantly. I see them leaning in and moving me around the board. I'm sure half the politicians are ready to seize hold of my skirts and drag me from square to square.
B: Then you had better master the rules of the game until you play it better than they can.
A: You don't recommend I find a husband to play it for me?
B: I should find one to play it with you, not for you.
Question 4
Question 4
Which Grandmaster lost his game in the eighth round of a
premier chess tournament this week because of the time control rule?
Question 5
What date is Bobby Fischer's birth anniversary?
From Alexandra Kosteniuk's
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Mansour? topaliv-kasparov, chess queen to chess king and march 23?
ReplyDeletethe game is definitely topalov-kasparov before he retired. linares of course. very sure. not sure about the other answers though. is that dialogue from a movie?
ReplyDeletei got a perfect score. yessss.
ReplyDeleteshe's from iran i think or one of the middle east countries - national champion difficult name to spell, game is surely topalov-kasparov, linares, 1996, conversation from movie The Young Victoria - mamedyarov at euro chess in plovdiv i think and of course Fischer birth anniversary on March 9.
ReplyDeleteWGM Atousa Pourkashiyan - http://www.chessblog.com/2011/01/wgm-atousa-pourkashiyan-wins-iranian.html
ReplyDeleteWGM Atousa Pourkashiyan, Topalov-Kasparov, Young Victoria, Mamedyarov, March 9
ReplyDeletei go with Sainath all correct!
ReplyDelete