Fritz 16 - He just wants to play!
Fritz 16 is looking forward to playing with you, and you're certain to have a great deal of fun with him too. Tense games and even well-fought victories await you with "Easy play" and "Assisted analysis" modes.
The "Chess Quiz" app invites you to a little challenge - it asks questions about chess. About its history, its culture, famous and not so famous chess personalities, about trivia, openings, chess events past and present, etc., etc., etc.
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The quiz is in multiple-choice format: each question comes with four answers and you have to pick the correct one.
Let's give it a go. The correct answer is "Vladimir Kramnik" - highlighted in green.
Sometimes the answers come with additional information
Question 1 went well and we are ready for the "NEXT QUESTION".
Which is a difficult one and our answer is highlighted in red, indicating that we got it wrong!
Our money was on Richard Rapport but the program asked for Fabiano Caruana.
Let's try again:
Below the answers you see your score and the difficulty of the question. A "score" of 1/2 means that you answered one of two questions correctly. "Difficulty" indicates the "Quiz-Elo-rating" of that question. You get points for a correct answer, you lose points for an incorrect one.
Currently, about 2,500 registered users tried their wit with the quiz. As of writing the best user is "woodshifter2016" with a quiz-elo of 2369.
How much do you know?
The quiz includes about 1,000 questions. With a rating of 2160 the following question has the highest rating: "In 2015 a Russian Grandmaster won the $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Eight-or-Better event in the World Series of Poker. Who?"
That's a hard one - did you know the answer? If that was too difficult try the lowest rated (Elo 1464) question: "Magnus Carlsen is from..."
Question and answers on the mobile
You can also quiz on the mobile, e.g. if you have a few minutes to spare and want some chess fun. Try and enjoy!
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