The Big ChessVibes Christmas Trivia Quiz (part II of III)
25 December 2009, 10.21 CET | By Peter Doggers | Filed under: Reports | Tags:
Today we give you the second set of ten questions of our Big ChessVibes Christmas Trivia Quiz! Good luck!
Today questions 11-20; tomorrow the last ten will follow. Send your answers before Sunday, December 27th, 23:59 CET to christmas09@chessvibes.com and who knows, you might end up winning one of the following prizes:
Prizes
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| First prize: 1-year subscription New in Chess Yearbook | Second prize: 1-year subscription New in Chess Magazine | Third prize: 1-year subscription Internet Chess Club (ICC) |
Big ChessVibes Christmas Trivia Quiz – Part II
11. The World Junior Chess Championship has been organized since 1951.
11A Of the following ten players, five won the title once, and five never. Which of these names won the title? Aronian, Bielicki, Carlsen, Fischer, Hübner, Ivkov, Kaplan, Leko, Spassky, Timman.
11B Four of the sixteen World Champions also won the World Junior title. Which four?
12. Where do they live?
| Viswanathan Anand | Amsterdam |
| Levon Aronian | Athens |
| Fabiano Caruana | Berlin |
| Vladimir Kramnik | Budapest |
| Joel Lautier | Collado Mediano |
| Yasser Seirawan | Moscow |
| Alexei Shirov | Paris |
| Nigel Short | Riga |
| Veselin Topalov | Salamanca |
13. Thirteen games in the match between Anand and Kasparov in 1995 ended in a draw. How often was Kasparov the one who offered a draw?
13A zero
13B two
13C eleven
13D all thirteen
13E There are only three players who played more than one classical game against Kasparov and have a plus score. Name all three players.
14 Three photos. One of them is a former World Champ, the other a former FIDE President and the third a former World Junior Champ. Name these three famous players.
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| 14A | 14B | 14C |
15 Four album covers. Name the albums and artists!
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| 15A | 15B |
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| 15C | 15D |
16 IM Christoph Wisnewski wrote a monograph about 1…Nc6, the Nimzovich Opening, for Everyman. Last year a book about opening traps was published by the same publisher, this time written by Christoph Scheerer. ‘Previously Wisnewski’, according to Everyman. This question is about players whose name was changed significantly during their chess career. Connect the old names to the correct new names.
| Fleischmann | Adorjan |
| Foerder | Afek |
| Grünfeld | Forgacs |
| Jocha | Gereben |
| Kardinaal | Graf |
| Kopelovich | Kasparov |
| Nenashev | Van Laatum |
| Weinstein | Porath |
17. A question about the World Senior Chess Championship.
17A From what age are you allowed to participate in this event?
17B Which player won the title three times?
17C Of the following names, six players won the title at least once, and six didn’t. Which players won the title?
Yuri Averbakh, Jacob Murey, Ewfim Geller, Jusefs Petkevich , Larry Kaufman, Lajos Portisch, Viktor Korchnoi, Vassily Smyslov , Bent Larsen, Boris Spassky , Henrique Mecking, Mark Taimanov.
18.There are many couples of two chess players in the chess world. Create the correct couples!
| Men | Women |
| Suat Atalik | Elena Akhmilovskaya |
| Juan Manuel Bellon Lopez | Anna Akhsharumova |
| Pascal Charbonneau | Claudia Amura |
| Glenn Flear | Ketevan Arakhamia |
| Laurent Fressinet | Camilla Baginskaite |
| Daniel Fridman | Monika Bobrowska |
| Robert Fontaine | Pia Cramling |
| Jonathan Grant | Katerina Dolzhikova |
| Alexander Grischuk | Esther Epstein |
| Boris Gulko | Petra Fink |
| Gilberto Hernandez | Petra Krupkova |
| Lars Bo Hansen | Irina Krush |
| Alexander Ivanov | Kateryna Lahno |
| Sergey Karjakin | Christine Leroy |
| Yona Kosashvili | Yvette Nagel |
| Vadim Malakhatko | Sofia Polgar |
| Mohamed al-Modiahki | Ekaterina Polovnikova |
| Sergei Movsesian | Evgenia Peicheva |
| John Nunn | Almira Skripchenko |
| Georgy Orlov | Natalia Zhukova |
| Yasser Seirawan | Anna Zatonskikh |
| Bartosz Socko | Zhu Chen |
| Alex Yermolinsky | Anna Zozulia |
19. For a long time Peter Svidler thought the Marshall Gambit of the Ruy Lopez to be dubious, but eventually he started playing the move 8…d5 himself. Who inspired him?
19A Michael Adams
19B John Nunn
19C Jimi Hendrix
19D Billy Joel
20A Who are the two men in the left picture?
20B Which chess player is chosen for the sculpture on the right?
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That’s it for today. Tomorrow the last ten questions! Feel free to discuss the quiz in the comments, but needless to say, no answers please!
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Tough cookies.
We are going to get the right answers after the competition is over, right?
Peter, do you accept answers in Excel format? Otherwise it would be quite a lenghthy email
It´s incredible to achieve a 70% score in this Trivia Quiz – even as a team. I guess I´d be happy with about 10%, without using sources. Nice that question 14 seems to be made especially for me ….. I managed to have these three legends play in a wonderful tournament in 2007! Merry Christmas to all!
Eric, Peter Doggers left that part of question 14 out in this Chess Vibes version. In my Birthday Quiz it was (also) part of the question and guess what: most of the teams actually knew the answer!
I could build a team which would probably beat the 70% mark of the New In Chess team. People like John Donaldson, Carl-Erik Erlandsson, Ian Rogers and Gerard Welling know so much by heart, it’s always a privilege to observe proofs of their expertise.
The question 13 is written wrongly: 13A, 13B, 13C, 13D? Are they questions or answers?
Christian, you are right – only one of 13A, 13B, 13C, 13D is true, so they are answers.