2022 Christmas Chess Quiz
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2022 Christmas Chess Quiz
Fill your boots with this.
Kenilworth Chess Club 2022 Christmas Quiz
Expanded to 60 chess questions this year.
From Mark Page, posted Sunday 25th December 2022.
https://kenilworthchess.blogspot.com
Kenilworth Chess Club 2022 Christmas Quiz
Expanded to 60 chess questions this year.
From Mark Page, posted Sunday 25th December 2022.
https://kenilworthchess.blogspot.com
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Re: 2022 Christmas Chess Quiz
Some of those questions are rather difficult to put it mildly. Will you be publishing the answers at any point because there are two questions there I would very much like to know the answer to.
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Re: 2022 Christmas Chess Quiz
Hi Mark.MJMcCready wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 9:04 amSome of those questions are rather difficult to put it mildly. Will you be publishing the answers at any point because there are two questions there I would very much like to know the answer to.
I'll keep checking the Kenilworth Chess Club website.
Mark Page posted the answers for last year's Christmas Quiz on Monday 3rd January 2022.
There seems to be a couple of other Christmas Chess quizzes on other Chess Club websites that have found.
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Re: 2022 Christmas Chess Quiz
Well don't know who came up with that quiz but there are some rather intriguing questions in it. I think I only know 5-6 answers.
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Re: 2022 Christmas Chess Quiz
It feels like a quiz designed with the mindset that lots of participants will cheat so might as well at least make them work hard researching the answers then give anything simple that would pop up as first thing on Google.
Lose one queen and it is a disaster, Lose 1000 queens and it is just a statistic.
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Re: 2022 Christmas Chess Quiz
The answers to the Kenilworth Chess Club Christmas Quiz appeared on their website dated Tuesday 3rd January 2023.
Here it is:
https://kenilworthchess.blogspot.com
Here it is:
https://kenilworthchess.blogspot.com
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Re: 2022 Christmas Chess Quiz
Thank you, that was quite some quiz. I only got 5 right.
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Re: 2022 Christmas Chess Quiz
The most contentious question concerns who won a chess game between Captain Kirk and Mr Spock - Mark Page was forced to allow either answer as correct.
I've done a bit of digging on this one (sad I know) and I can't find any citation for a win by Spock. It seems that the only time a result between the two was specified in an episode the game was won by Kirk but they were shown playing on other occasions, as well as games against other characters that were won by Spock (his ability to beat a computer that should be unbeatable is a plot point in one episode).
I've done a bit of digging on this one (sad I know) and I can't find any citation for a win by Spock. It seems that the only time a result between the two was specified in an episode the game was won by Kirk but they were shown playing on other occasions, as well as games against other characters that were won by Spock (his ability to beat a computer that should be unbeatable is a plot point in one episode).
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Re: 2022 Christmas Chess Quiz
Isn't Kirk famous for being able to chat his way to winning in even unbeatable scenarios? With that in mind you could probably claim a win for him regardless of who he is up against
Lose one queen and it is a disaster, Lose 1000 queens and it is just a statistic.
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Re: 2022 Christmas Chess Quiz
54 out of 200, but without resorting to books or on-line searches.
"The chess-board is the world ..... the player on the other side is hidden from us ..... he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)
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Re: 2022 Christmas Chess Quiz
My prize from the ChessBase Christmas quiz arrived today.
What would your criteria be to designate someone as a "top player" (signing a DVD)?
What would your criteria be to designate someone as a "top player" (signing a DVD)?
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Re: 2022 Christmas Chess Quiz
Presumably someone you had not really heard of before, or is outside the world top 100?
What we really want to know is how you failed to do better then "David P." (also from England) and who came 2nd overall, and who David P. is?
(There is also Laszlo A. from the United Kingdom.)
Was the mousepad a nice prize? (I might actually enter the competition myself next year, it sounds great fun.)
EDIT (to add a PS that is longer than the original reply!):
PS. Failing the "world top 100" designation I suggested above, I would expect for the trailed signed prize to meet the description of "top player" for the signature on the DVD to be at least that of a GM. I wouldn't expect a world champion (of which there are many in chess) as that would have been trailed in the blurb if so. I would be disappointed if the person signing it was an IM or lower, or a low-rated GM no-one has heard of. I am guessing it is a local GM or one of the GMs involved in the Chessbase Germany set-up? Maybe we can try and guess who has signed the DVD? (and to be fair, for a raffle prize it might be expecting a bit much to get any name recognition or for the DVD to have any collectible value later...)
What we really want to know is how you failed to do better then "David P." (also from England) and who came 2nd overall, and who David P. is?
(There is also Laszlo A. from the United Kingdom.)
Was the mousepad a nice prize? (I might actually enter the competition myself next year, it sounds great fun.)
EDIT (to add a PS that is longer than the original reply!):
PS. Failing the "world top 100" designation I suggested above, I would expect for the trailed signed prize to meet the description of "top player" for the signature on the DVD to be at least that of a GM. I wouldn't expect a world champion (of which there are many in chess) as that would have been trailed in the blurb if so. I would be disappointed if the person signing it was an IM or lower, or a low-rated GM no-one has heard of. I am guessing it is a local GM or one of the GMs involved in the Chessbase Germany set-up? Maybe we can try and guess who has signed the DVD? (and to be fair, for a raffle prize it might be expecting a bit much to get any name recognition or for the DVD to have any collectible value later...)
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Re: 2022 Christmas Chess Quiz
On the contrary, a very well known name.Christopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑Sat Feb 04, 2023 3:21 pmPresumably someone you had not really heard of before,
Well outside it.
The rules said "The more questions can be answered correctly, the higher are the chances to win main prizes in the end." so it's not completely clear how prizes were awarded. Those words suggest to me it may have been something like a random draw with one entry in the draw for each correct answer.Christopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑Sat Feb 04, 2023 3:21 pmWhat we really want to know is how you failed to do better then "David P." (also from England) and who came 2nd overall, and who David P. is?
I got one question wrong (other than the question that everyone got wrong because none of the multiple choice answers were correct).
It's a fabric mouse mat with a slightly blurry ChessBase 17 logo on it. There's not much more to say about it.
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Re: 2022 Christmas Chess Quiz
Well, I am thinking either Garry Kasparov, or Raymond Keene...
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If you look at the prizes ChessBase think that a "DVD signed by a top player and a ChessBase 17 mouse pad" is a better prize than a "€60 digital ChessBase Shop voucher".Christopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑Sat Feb 04, 2023 3:21 pmfor a raffle prize it might be expecting a bit much to get any name recognition or for the DVD to have any collectible value later...
As their DVDs cost about €30 that implies they think a signature adds at least €25 - €30 to its value. I don't know, but I'd be surprised if it did.