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  • 1. 
    What is the standard design for chess sets used in international competitions?

  • Staunton
  • McDonnell
  • Anderssen
  • Morphy

  • 2. 
    Who won the first Women’s World Chess Championship organized by FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs)?

  • Edith Holloway
  • Nona Gaprindashvili
  • Vera Menchik
  • Ellen Gilbert

  • 3. 
    Who was the first woman to become an International Grandmaster in chess?

  • Vera Menchik-Stevenson
  • Olga Rubtsova
  • Elizaveta Bykova
  • Nona Gaprindashvili

  • 4. 
    Who was the first Soviet master to win the World Chess Championship?

  • Alexander Alekhine
  • Mikhail Botvinnik
  • Richard Reti
  • Aron Nimzowitsch

  • 5. 
    In chess, what is a move available to a pawn when an enemy pawn on an adjoining file advances two squares on its initial move and could have been captured had it moved only one square?

  • Promotion
  • Gambit
  • Castling
  • En passant

  • 6. 
    What ancient game is regarded as the earliest precursor of modern-day chess?

  • Checkers
  • Chaturanga
  • Shatranj
  • Go

  • 7. 
    Which of these games is a Japanese form of chess?

  • Shogi
  • Go
  • Shatranj
  • Chaturanga

  • 8. 
    What was established in 1924 as the first permanent international chess federation?

  • Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE)
  • International Chess Congress (ICC)
  • European Chess Federation (ECF)
  • Professional Chess Association (PCA)

  • 9. 
    In 1958, who became the youngest chess player ever to attain the rank of grandmaster?

  • Bobby Fischer
  • Judit Polgár
  • Sergey Karjakin
  • Alisa Melekhina

  • 10. 
    What computer was the first to win a game of chess against a world champion under standard playing conditions?

  • Deep Thought
  • AlphaGo
  • Deep Blue
  • Watson

  • 11. 
    What term is used to describe a situation in which a chess player not in check has no legal moves?

  • Castling
  • Stalemate
  • En passant
  • Promotion

  • 12. 
    In chess, what is the name given to the compound move of the king and the rook?

  • Opening
  • Capturing
  • Castling
  • Checkmate

  • 13. 
    Which chess master is considered to have been the world champion longer than any other player, holding the title from 1866 until 1894?

  • Paul Morphy
  • Emanuel Lasker
  • Wilhelm Steinitz
  • Alisa Melekhina

  • 14. 
    Who was the first woman to write a book on chess, titled The ABC of Chess?

  • Vera Menchik-Stevenson
  • Ellen Gilbert
  • Edith Winter-Wood
  • H.I. Cooke
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