The wait is over – here are the answers to this year’s fiendishly difficult Christmas Quiz:
- Where was the 1972 World Chess Championship between Fischer and Spassky played? Reykjavik
- Who comes next in this sequence: Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca…….? Alekhine
- Which journalist is the current President of the English Chess Federation? Dominic Lawson
- The musical ‘Chess’ was the result of an unlikely but successful partnership between which three men? Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Tim Rice
- The recently-completed London Chess Classic was the third and final stage in the Chess Grand Tour. Where were the first two events held? Stavanger and St Louis
- Which former British chess champion has more recently been seen offering his views on television programmes in Gogglebox? Bill Hartston
- Who was the FIDE President who famously stopped the Karpov-Kasparov World Championship in 1984? Florencio Campomanes
- What German word is used to describe a situation where whatever move a player makes will by force weaken his position? zugzwang
- The Erasmus High School, Brooklyn included among its pupils at one point in the 1950s a future World Chess Champion and a future Oscar-winning actress and singer. Name them. Bobby Fischer and Barbra Streisand
- Which former world chess champion played 86 games unbeaten between July 15 1972 and April 26 1973? Mikhail Tal
What do you mean, you got them all right but forgot to send in your answers?
Happy New Year to all our visitors from Taiwan to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. For those closer to home, the club re-opens on Monday January 4th.