Statistics for Do You Even Chess?

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Term for when a player is in check and has no legal move	Checkmate	97%
Chess piece that can only move diagonally	Bishop	95%
Number of squares on a chess board	64	90%
Country that currently has the most players of that rank	Russia	80%
Term for when the king and a rook are moved in the same turn	Castling	79%
Term for when a player is not in check but has no legal move	Stalemate	74%
Highest title awarded to chess players, requiring an Elo rating of 2500	Grandmaster	70%
Country which the ancestor of chess, chaturanga, originally came from	India	63%
American who won the World Chess Championship in 1972	Bobby Fischer	61%
Popular chess opening named for a Mediterranean island	{Sicilian} Defence	58%
Computer that beat that champion in 1997	Deep {Blue}	57%
Current world #1 who has recorded the highest Elo rating of all-time	Magnus Carlsen	57%
Russian champion who held the world title for a record 255 months	Garry Kasparov	55%
Material from which the oldest known chess pieces were made	Ivory	48%
Shortest possible victory, which can be achieved in just two moves	{Fool}'s Mate	43%
Country in which former champion José Raúl Capablanca was born	Cuba	32%
Country where the above matches took place	Iceland	27%
Z word that refers to a situation where any move a player makes will worsen their position	Zugzwang	25%
Russian who was defeated by the above	Boris Spassky	24%
Famous chess-playing "machine" that actually had a person inside of it	Mechanical {Turk}	19%