Comments on: The Big ChessVibes Christmas Trivia Quiz (part I of III)

By: René Olthof

René Olthof — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 01:18:33 +0000

8. And they’re all black…

By: jadoube

jadoube — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:11:58 +0000

8. They all make great music.

By: Muadhib

Muadhib — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:17:07 +0000

@Silken
Official result was 6-6. I think that answers your question.

By: Muadhib

Muadhib — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:16:12 +0000

Some are quite easy, but some are really hard – unanswerable for me

By: Silken

Silken — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:11:10 +0000

Oh and another one: Does his match against Topalov count as drawn or won (depending on whether the forfeited game counts as a “classical game” in your book)?

By: Silken

Silken — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:08:47 +0000

Regarding question 5: I count more than 8 matches. What exactly do you count as part of the World Championship Cycle? Do candidate matches count? Do both FIDE and PCA matches count?

By: René Olthof

René Olthof — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:14:07 +0000

Remember, the winning team in my Birthday Quiz had a scoreof over 70%.
Without any consulting of sources!
An incredible achievement by Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam, Peter Boel, Jeroen Bosch and Cora van der Zander, together the New In Chess Team Bijna Goed.

By: PP (nl)

PP (nl) — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:36:33 +0000

These are serious questions. A lot of thing you rally have to look-up.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:48:29 +0000

Wow, hard stuff!! Im gonna try to solve em, but it will be a hard job I guess.

By: Peter Oppitz

Peter Oppitz — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:07:34 +0000

To question No.1 :
Well, I still can´t really accept Topalov as a World Champion in the tradition from Steinitz to Anand. He only once won a double-round-robin-tournament and never beat his predecessor in a match as the other champions did.
So for me there are only 15 “real” World Champions!