Bobo's Spring Chess Puzzler
Dear readers,
Thank you all so much for reading my blogs and commenting on them - I really appreciate it! As you all know, spring is coming up soon, so to thank you for all your support, I have created a spring chess puzzler which I hope you will try to solve. The person who gets the most answers correct will receive 25 trophies of their choice! In the event of a tie, the tiebreaks will be based on who sent in their submission first. Please PM your answers to me. The deadline is the end of February. Thanks!
1) Who was Black in this game?
2) The first printed book in English language was about chess. True or false?
3) What is the maximum number of moves a chess game can be? (until either side cannot give a checkmate)
4) How many different possible combinations are there for the first 4 moves of a chess game? (1 move means that white has moved once and black has moved once)
5) What was on the sweater Alexander Alekhine wore during the 1935 World Chess Championships?
6) Which grandmaster's name is an anagram for "A rival! No! None!?"
7) Which individual piece apart from Kings (eg. the pawn on h2) has been captured the least?
8) Who did the Caruanas' ask when they were trying to figure out whether Fabi should focus solely on chess?
9) What did Alexander Grischuk say when he say that Carlsen and Caruana drew their final (game 12 in classical) game of the WCC this year?
10) How many attempts did it take Levon Aronian to make the hollandaise sauce for the Norway Chess cooking event?
11) Who is the GM in this picture?
(For those of you wondering, yes, you can use the internet)
