Reports | December 26, 2009 19:53

The Big ChessVibes Christmas Trivia Quiz (part III of III)

Today we give you the third and last set of ten questions of our Big ChessVibes Christmas Trivia Quiz. Soon we'll bring you all the answers. Good luck!

Today questions 21-30. 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:

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Big ChessVibes Christmas Trivia Quiz - Part III

Before we start with the last ten questions, we'd like to make clear that you can answer your questions in whatever form you like. So if you prefer to use a text editor or spreadsheet program, and send an email with an attachment, that's fine.

Rider Hotel, Cambridge Springs

21. Many of you have probably heard of the Interzonal tournament that was held in 1973 in Petropolis, but do you also know in which country that city is located?
21A Combine the following 'chess cities' with the correct countries in 2009.

Abazzia Bosnia & Herzegovina
Barmen Brazil
Breslau Germany
Bugojno Italy
Cambridge Springs Croatia
Merano Austria
Petropolis Poland
Semmering United States


The Luzhin DefenceA question about the above cities. True or not true?
21B Abazzia - here the famous theme tournament was held in 1912, where the Evans Gambit was the obligatory opening.
21C Barmen - this tournament (1905) had an official tournament song.
21D Breslau - birth place of Adolf Anderssen.
21E Bugojno - the main sponsor of these five tournaments was a stitching-machine factory.
21F Cambridge Springs - the Rider Hotel, where the famous 1904 tournament took place, burnt down completely during the Bay of Pigs incident in 1961.
21G Merano - the location of Nabokov's The Luzhin Defence
21H Petropolis - Stefan Zweig, author of Die Schachnovelle, died here in 1942.
21I Semmering - the 1937 World Championship match between Vera Menchik and Sonja Graf took place here, in the Panhans Hotel.

Marcel Duchamp22. Of all chess players, Marcel Duchamp is by far the most famous for activities outside the chess world. Besides playing chess, the following persons have another career, in art, science, politics or a different kind of sports. Make the correct connections!

Utut Adianto economist at the IMF
Simen Agdestein electro technician
Nona Gaprindashvili minister
Alexander Grischuk papyrologist
Robert Hübner member of parliament
Bozidar Ivanovic pianist
Cenek Kottnauer poker player
Kenneth Rogoff tennis player
Mark Taimanov chairman national Olympic committee
Sir George Thomas soccer player
Milan Vidmar water polo player


Grave Alekhine23. Where were they buried?

Alexander Alekhine Amsterdam
Marcel Duchamp Budapest
Max Euwe Copenhagen
Bobby Fischer New Orleans
Emanuel Lasker New York
Geza Maroczy New York
Paul Morphy Paris
Aaron Nimzovich Rouen
Rudolf Spielmann Selfoss
Wilhelm Steinitz Solna


fischer24. In January 2009, at 15 years, 7 months and 1 day Anish Giri became the youngest Grandmaster in the world. Well, on that day he scored his 3rd GM norm; he received the title officially a bit later.
24A Who was the youngest GM before Giri, and who became the youngest GM after him?
24B Traditionally the list of youngest GMs in history starts with Bobby Fischer, who became a GM in 1958, when he was 15 years, 6 months and 1 day old. However, this list of youngest grandmasters ever (so not the youngest GM at a certain moment in the world, but youngest ever) contains ten names, and one of them is Fischer. Give this list of ten names in the correct order.

kiev 197825. The grandmaster tournament Kiev 1978 was won by Alexander Beliavsky, who, despite losses against the number 2 and 3, won the tournament with a 2-point margin. However, the tournament became famous because of something else: the tournament book. What was so special about this book?

player26. We know the player in the picture as a strong grandmaster. In Iceland, however, he's mainly known as the founder and president of the only Icelandic bank that didn't collapse in 2008. What's his name (and the name of the bank)?

ton timman27. In the picture we see Ton Timman playing against his more famous brother Jan. Below you'll find duos; eight of these duos are siblings, eight are not. Which eight duos are siblings?

Espen/Simen Agdestein John/Paul Littlewood
Georgy/Viacheslav Agzamov Turkan/Zeinab Mamedjarova
Daniel/Rafael Fridman Alisa/Mirjana Maric
Krum/Kiril Georgiev Predrag/Nebojsa Nikolic
Ilya/Dmitry Gurevich Boris/Ruslan Ponomariov
Mikhail/Vladimir Gurevich Nigel/Philip Short
Csaba/Jozsef Horvath Igor/Alexander Zaitsev
Edward/Emanuel Lasker Andrei/Sergei Zhigalko


28. In this video you can see one of the most successful table tennis players today (red shirt). But what is his name?
28A Bu Xiangzhi
28B Ni Hua
28C Wang Hao
28D Wang Yue


olympiad29. There are not many players who represented three different federations at Olympiads. From the following list of players, pick the two players who do not belong to this small group: Alexander Beliavsky, Erich Eliskases, Boris Gelfand, Mikhail Gurevich, Viktor Korchnoi, Zdenko Kozul, Ivan Sokolov.

journalism30. Chess journalism - which names belong to which media?

Leonard Barden Columnist El País
Frederic Friedel Columnist The Guardian
Leontxo Garcia Editor Chessbase (English)
Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam Editor Chessbase (Spanish)
Mark Gluhovsky Editor 64
Dirk Poldauf Editor British Chess Magazine
John Saunders Editor Chess Life Online
Jennifer Shahade Editor New in Chess Magazine
Yuri Vasiliev Editor Schach
Nadja Woisin Photographer Sport-Express


That's it! Soon we'll give the prizes to the best participants, and publish the answers. Feel free to discuss the quiz in the comments, but needless to say, no answers please!

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jurgen's picture

I am awaiting the answers with exictement. And of course the prizewinners...?
When will that be?

Peter Doggers's picture

We're working on it as we speak! I hope to publish the answers and winners within a few days.

Ben's picture

Yes, im quite curious as well. When may we expect the answers?

René Olthof's picture

It's quite exciting to see whether or not my research will hold up against the collective quiz power of all Chess Vibes readers.
Hopefully, they will not destroy some of my questions (and/or the answers)

Ben's picture

Im quite sure nobody got the full 100% score.. Some questions were really hard to find out, even with unlimited time. Like the question about the last games of former world champions. I could find some games of deceased WC's, but not all of em. One would need specific books about the persons to find out if they won their last game :). Also the olympiad flag question was hard!! I could only find three of the eight flags.

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