| Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D | A possible outcome of a game of chess in which neither side wins or loses | Draw | 95%
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| F | Checkmate in two moves | {Fool}'s mate | 93%
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| B | A very bad move | Blunder | 91%
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| G | The highest title that a player can achieve, awarded by FIDE and valid for life | Grandmaster | 91%
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| K | The most important piece in chess | King | 87%
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| C | Player with the highest FIDE rating as of April 2022 | Magnus Carlsen | 85%
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| E | The only capturing move in chess that does not land on the captured piece | En passant | 82%
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| S | Position in which the player to move is not in check but has no legal move | Stalemate | 82%
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| M | The part of a chess game that follows the opening and comes before the endgame | Middlegame | 71%
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| U | Promoting a pawn to a rook, bishop, or knight instead of a queen | Underpromotion | 67%
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| P | Term for a pawn that is able to advance through the board and promote without getting under attack | {Passed} pawn | 65%
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| O | Opening with the moves 1. e4 e5 | {Open} Game | 60%
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| L | One of the two diagonals with eight squares (a1–h8 or h1–a8) | {Long} diagonal | 58%
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| Q | White's left side and Black's right side | Queenside | 58%
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| R | Term for a horizontal row on the chessboard | Rank | 55%
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| Z | Situation in which any legal move would get the player into disadvantage | Zugzwang | 55%
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| I | The amount of time added to each player's clock before each move | Increment | 51%
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| A | Notation system using letter-number pairs to identify squares on the board | {Algebraic} notation | 47%
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| N | Opponent of C in the 2021 World Chess Championship | Ian Nepomniachtchi | 44%
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| V | A chess-like game that is not chess itself | Chess {variant} | 36%
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| X | When the power of a piece, either to attack or to defend, seems to pass through an intervening enemy piece | X-ray | 35%
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| H | Two pawns of the same color on adjacent files, with no pawns of the same color on the files either side of them | {Hanging} pawns | 29%
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| J | Expression used when adjusting pieces | J'adoube | 29%
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| T | The allowed time to play a game, usually measured by a chess clock | Time control | 15%
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| W | Slang for pieces | Wood | 15%
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