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	81%
Name of the move where the king and rook switch places	Castle	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	69%
Country which the ancestor of chess, chaturanga, originally came from	India	63%
American who won the World Chess Championship in 1972	Bobby Fischer	61%
Computer that beat that champion in 1997	Deep {Blue}	59%
Popular chess opening named for a Mediterranean island	{Sicilian} Defence	58%
Russian champion who held the world title for a record 255 months	Garry Kasparov	55%
Current world #1 who has recorded the highest Elo rating of all-time	Magnus Carlsen	55%
Material from which the oldest known chess pieces were made	Ivory	49%
Shortest possible victory, which can be achieved in just two moves	{Fool}'s Mate	44%
Country in which former champion José Raúl Capablanca was born	Cuba	33%
Country where the above matches took place	Iceland	28%
Russian who was defeated by the above	Boris Spassky	25%
Z word that refers to a situation where any move a player makes will worsen their position	Zugzwang	25%
Famous chess-playing "machine" that actually had a person inside of it	Mechanical {Turk}	18%