Do You Even Chess? - Statistics

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  • The average score is 12 of 20
Answer Stats
Hint Answer % Correct
Term for when a player is in check and has no legal move Checkmate
98%
Chess piece that can only move diagonally Bishop
95%
Number of squares on a chess board 64
90%
Term for when the king and a rook are moved in the same turn Castling
80%
Country that currently has the most players of that rank Russia
80%
Term for when a player is not in check but has no legal move Stalemate
75%
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%
Current world #1 who has recorded the highest Elo rating of all-time Magnus Carlsen
58%
Popular chess opening named for a Mediterranean island {Sicilian} Defence
58%
Computer that beat that champion in 1997 Deep {Blue}
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
47%
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
31%
Country where the above matches took place Iceland
27%
Z word that refers to a situation where any move a playermakes will worsen their position Zugzwang
26%
Russian who was defeated by the above Boris Spassky
24%
Famous chess-playing "machine" that actually had a person inside of it Mechanical {Turk}
20%
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