ChessBase 17 - Mega package - Edition 2024
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What better during a mid-week news lull than a quiz on recent news? Select your answers and press the button to check your score. 7/10 is great, 10/10 means you probably need to get out of the house more. If you don't answer it counts as wrong, so take your best guess! The answers are at the far bottom of the page.
Answers below. Don't peek!
#1) China's Zhu Chen won the title in Moscow,
2001.
#2) Ye, of China. Gelfand is higher rated, but Israel is considered Europe by
FIDE and many other sports federations. Of course Anand is the top-rated non-Euro.
#3) Four: Kasparov, Kramnik, Svidler, Morozevich. There are four more Russians
in the 11-20 group.
#4) Vishy took clear first in 2003 and 2004.
#5) Svidler won the final over Najer.
#6) Turkmenistan. Georgia is bordered by Russia, Turkey, Armenia, and Azerbaijan
(and the Black Sea).
#7) 79%. Only nine of 42 games were decisive.
#8) Huzman beat Kasparov in the 2003 Euro Team Championship.
#9) Rublevsky won on tiebreaks ahead of Vaganian and Filippov.
#10) 2.5. He beat Huebner and drew the other three games.
