| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Term for when a player is in check and has no legal move | Checkmate | 98%
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| Chess piece that can only move diagonally | Bishop | 95%
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| Number of squares on a chess board | 64 | 90%
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| Term for when the king and a rook are moved in the same turn | Castling | 80%
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| Country that currently has the most players of that rank | Russia | 80%
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| Term for when a player is not in check but has no legal move | Stalemate | 75%
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| Highest title awarded to chess players, requiring an Elo rating of 2500 | Grandmaster | 70%
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| Country which the ancestor of chess, chaturanga, originally came from | India | 63%
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| American who won the World Chess Championship in 1972 | Bobby Fischer | 61%
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| Current world #1 who has recorded the highest Elo rating of all-time | Magnus Carlsen | 58%
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| Popular chess opening named for a Mediterranean island | {Sicilian} Defence | 58%
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| Computer that beat that champion in 1997 | Deep {Blue} | 57%
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| Russian champion who held the world title for a record 255 months | Garry Kasparov | 55%
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| Material from which the oldest known chess pieces were made | Ivory | 47%
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| Shortest possible victory, which can be achieved in just two moves | {Fool}'s Mate | 43%
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| Country in which former champion José Raúl Capablanca was born | Cuba | 31%
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| Country where the above matches took place | Iceland | 27%
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| Z word that refers to a situation where any move a playermakes will worsen their position | Zugzwang | 26%
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| Russian who was defeated by the above | Boris Spassky | 24%
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| Famous chess-playing "machine" that actually had a person inside of it | Mechanical {Turk} | 20%
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