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Question 1

a board game played by 2 players

Answer 1

chess

Question 2

each player controls an army of

Answer 2

16 pieces

Question 3

one army is black , one is white. which starts first?

Answer 3

white

Question 4

how many squares does a chess board have?

Answer 4

8x8 grid, 64 squares

Question 5

a game of strategy and concentration

Answer 5

chess

Question 6

dominates the game of chess

Answer 6

russia

Question 7

many of the top world chess players have been citizens of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR)

Answer 7

1927

Question 8

origin of chess

Answer 8

india in the 15th century

Question 9

it was considered a game reserved only for

Answer 9

kings and members of upper class

Question 10

first international chess tournament

Answer 10

london tourney (1851)

Question 11

who won the first international chess tournament

Answer 11

adolf anderssen

Question 12

unofficial best chess player

Answer 12

adolf anderssen

Question 13

First great American-born
chess player

Answer 13

paul Morphy

Question 14

travelled to
Europe in the 1850’s where
he beat all the challengers
including Adolf Anderssen, but Never became a world chess champ.

Answer 14

paul Morphy

Question 15

First official Championship
tournament was played in?

Answer 15

london in 1866

Question 16

_________ won the game. He became the world’s first official chess champion, holding the title until 1894

Answer 16

Steinitz

Question 17

move of the king
and/or either rook of the
same color along the
player first row.

Answer 17

castling

Question 18

immediate threat of capture

Answer 18

check

Question 19

king is threatened
with capture (in check)
having no more to avoid
the threat, thus, ending the
game.

Answer 19

checkmate

Question 20

nobody ends a winner

Answer 20

draw

Question 21

french for “in passing”

Answer 21

en passant

Question 22

special ability of a
pawn

Answer 22

promotion

Question 23

most important
chess piece; however it is also
considered the weakest

Answer 23

king

Question 24

most powerful piece.

Answer 24

queen

Question 25

may move as far
as it wants, but only
diagonally.

Answer 25

Bishop

Question 26

moves by
going two squares in
one direction, and then
one mor move just like
an L shape.

Answer 26

knight

Question 27

may move to any square
as far as it wants, but only
forward, backward, and to the
sides. The rooks are particularly
powe

Answer 27

rook

Question 28

moves forward but
captures diagonally

Answer 28

pawn

Question 29

both sides develop their places

Answer 29

opening

Question 30

largest battles

Answer 30

middle game

Question 31

tense battle between the few remainig forces

Answer 31

endgame