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Chess Quiz: Test Your Knowledge on the Game and Its Cultural Impact

This quiz tests your knowledge of Chess, covering its governance, notable players, roles in films, and the impact of technology on the game.

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1 Chess's international governing body is ________ (Fédération Internationale des Échecs).

2 In 1975, however, Fischer refused to defend his title against Soviet ________ when FIDE refused to meet his demands, and Karpov obtained the title by default.

3 Who played Doctor the movie Chess?

4 Who played Sarath the movie Chess?

5 Who played Domaren, Jean Jacques van Boren the movie Chess?

6 What role did Per Myrberg play in the movie Chess?

7 Who played Freddie Trumper the movie Chess?

8 What role did Tommy Körberg play in the movie Chess?

9 What role did Baburaj play in the movie Chess?

10 The presence of computers and modern communication tools have also raised concerns regarding ________ during games, most notably the "bathroom controversy" during the 2006 World Championship.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • in 1866, French chessplayer Napoleon Marache published one of the first chess books in the United States, which also discussed strategy for backgammon and dominoes.
  • historian and biographer Hans Olav Lahlum is also an International Arbiter in chess.
  • four-time Moscow chess champion Nikolay Grigoriev won ten awards in an endgame study composing tourney in 1935.
  • the Japanese animated television series Last Exile uses terms from chess in its episode titles.
  • the Austrian Attack was used against Bobby Fischer when he played the Pirc Defence for the first time in his chess career.
  • the first major international chess tournament took place in London in 1851.
  • the first coach of Lithuanian chess International Master Viktorija Čmilytė (pictured) was her father.
  • the Thue-Morse sequence has applications in number theory, combinatorics, differential geometry and chess.
  • excavations at the village of Timerevo near Yaroslavl-on-the-Volga revealed a huge number of African dirhams and a chess piece, all inscribed with Runic graffiti.
  • Indian chess player Umakant Sharma was banned from playing competitive chess for 10 years after being caught cheating with a Bluetooth device sewn into his cap.
  • visually impaired chess player Reginald Bonham founded the International Braille Chess Association.
  • Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, President of the Republic of Kalmykia and head of the World Chess Federation, built the multi-million dollar Chess City complex for hosting international chess tournaments.
  • Church of England clergyman William Wayte also was a minor British chess master in the late 1800s.
  • Frank Parr, an English chess player, won the Hastings Premier during his first and only appearance at the tournament in 1939/1940.
  • James Mortimer was regularly invited to chess tournaments even though he lost most of his matches, managing to beat masters including Johannes Zukertort and Mikhail Chigorin.
  • Queen's Gambit Accepted is a chess opening in which Black takes a White pawn after two moves, but is not a real gambit because Black cannot count on keeping his advantage.
  • Maia Chiburdanidze was the youngest woman ever to win the women's world chess championship.
  • 1956 was the first time when a computer was able to play a chess-like game, Los Alamos chess.
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