World Champion 1972 Christmas Calendar Winners
Door 24 Solution
The last question was of course quite tricky, yet almost everyone knew, and gave the correct answer:
C. 22 x
In 21 games the knight was naturally on the square b1. Although the second game never happened, the knight stood on the chessboard! And then there was game no. 11, where on move fourteen the knight hopped back to b1. This move by Spassky was given an exclamation mark several times. So, that makes 22 x
Apologies
Since 2020 I've been designing the ChessBase calendars, thinking up the questions, creating videos, editing them, uploading them, writing the articles, embedding the videos, etc., etc., etc.
There is no question that this is outstanding fun to work on, but since I edit almost 50 videos (English & German), articles, questions, answers and more myself, mistakes, as already in the last years, unfortunately do not stay away.
Fortunately, we have a great community who very kindly pointed out these errors in their written response so that I could, if possible, limit or repair the damage in time. Please understand that I did not reply to hundreds of emails individually.
Nevertheless, the participants should not suffer from my mistakes, so that more often two answers were considered the correct solution. Of course, this was considered for the raffle.
Nevertheless, I would like to formally apologize for the mishaps and I sincerely hope that the mistakes have not affected the fun of the 24 days too much.
The 91 lucky winners:
While we had a whopping 90 winners in 2020, there were only a paltry 89 winners in 2021. This year we've topped everything with 91 winners! Three players can look forward to a grand prize.
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