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Topic: A Test, 10 questions.
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Let us see how far reaches the knowledge of the Queen Alice members about chess, its history and other chessy stuff.
These are my 10 questions;
1. Who formally did award for the first time the Grandmaster Title?
2. To which 5 players did he award that title?
3. Where does the name "Check-mate" come from? What does it means?
4. 1.g4-d5 2.Bg2-c6 3.g5-... ?
5. In 1959, in the tournament to find a challenger for World-Champion Botwinnik, Michael Tal played the legendary Bobby Fisher 4 times. How many did Tall win and what was his nickname?
6. Who is at the moment (1-12-2007) the only non-Grandmaster in the FIDE Top 100 playerslist?
7. "You know, comrade Pachman, I don,t enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela"
Who did I quote?
8. Who founded together with Gary Kasparov the "Proffesional Chess Association" and in which year?
9. The first "Team Olympiad tournament" were hold in Budapest in 1926. Which country won that first edition, and which won the last edition of Turin 2006 ?
10. When and where was the FIDE founded, and what does it mean?
For those who don,t know all the answers, here is the JOKER;
10b. Who is the most famous Internet Chess-player from "New York City"?
Good luck.
p.s. 1st.price is a game with the white pieces against the player 10b.
2nd.price is 5 games, all with the black pieces against me.
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I just got half of them  And i'm not even sure that all of my answers are rightly right:
2. Euwe, Botwinnik, Rehevsky, Keres and Fine.
3. From ancient Persian; Death to the King.
8. Nigel Short in 1993.
10. In France (1947?); Fédération Internationale Des Echecs.
10b. RayDuqueIII(?) 
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kloosterveen wrote:
1. Who formally did award for the first time the Grandmaster Title?
2. To which 5 players did he award that title? |
Actually, there seems to be vanishingly little primary evidence that the story of that person awarding the title to those five people is true. See, for example,
| http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter38.html#5144._Tsar_Nicholas_II |
and the discussion at
| http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess.misc/browse_thread/thread/6ddf18df3b30d8e5/1c315c0466739b79 |
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I took the most questions out of the book "Things worth knowing about Chess" (Schaak Wetenswaardigheden) by dutch chess-reporter Lex Jongsma. And actually, he mentioned in his "Epilog", historians do not agree about all "facts" mentioned in his book. If he meant the chapter about "Tsar Nicholas II" as well, I don,t know. But it is the correct answer on question nr.1.
"Twinigo" also gave the correct answer on question nr.3. Check-mate comes from a game played in the ancient Persia (Iran nowedays) which means; Death to the Shah = "Shah Mahte"
But also here, historians disagree were the chessplay comes from originally. In India excisted at the same time a simular game. Both games look-a-like the chess we play now.
But we still do miss 5 names, as Twinigo,s answer on that one, was not correct.
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The only one I knew was #3: from Persian shakh-mat (the king is dead). The name of the game in Persian was chatrang, from the perhaps even more ancient Indian game chaturanga, sanskrit for 'quadripartite' (divided into four parts) because of the four bodies of the army: knights, elephants (bishops), chariots (rooks) and soldiers (pawns).
Chatrang was brought to the Iberian peninsula by the muslims as shatranj and became xadrez [shah-DRAYS] in Portuguese and ajedres [ah-hay-DRESS] in Spanish.
P.S.: Forgot to say that I also partly knew number #10, the meaning of FIDE given by Twinigo. ;)
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2. Lasker, Capablanca, Tarrasch, Aljechin, Marshall
3. Che Guevara (this was an easy one  )
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