What didn't Bobby Fischer do?

Program an unbeatable chess computer.

A pawn is often promoted to a queen. Why?

Moves vertically, horizontally or diagonally unrestricted.

What isn't a feature of pawns?

It can only move on the color it started on.

Deep Blue was the first computer chess-playing system to win a chess game and match against...

a reigning world champion under regular time controls.

In 1999 Maurice Ashley became the first...

African-American Chess Grandmaster.

What didn't Judit Polgar do ?

Make a award winning recipe book about Hungarian cooking.

Baraka Shabazz is the only black female to...

be rated expert by United States Chess Federation.

The bishop moves diagonal on the color it starts and...

has no restrictions in distance for each move.

When a king is in 'checkmate', what does that mean?

The player the king belongs to losses the game.

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1
What didn't Bobby Fischer do?
Invented a variant of chess called Fischerandom or Chess960.
Won 1970 Candidates Matches with 2 unprecedented 6–0 sweeps.
Program an unbeatable chess computer.
Won the 1963–64 US Championship with 11 wins in 11 games.
2
David Levy lost a bet that no computer would beat him in chess in ten years, 1973-83.
False
True
3
What program beat David Levy in 1989?
Skynet.
Deep Blue.
AlphaGo.
Deep Thought.
4
A pawn is often promoted to a queen. Why?
No one knows why.
Moves vertically, horizontally or diagonally unrestricted.
She is the most available piece.
She can be switched for a prince.
5
What isn't a feature of pawns?
It can only move on the color it started on.
If it gets to the other side it becomes another piece.
It's the most numerous piece.
It captures diagonally to the space in front of it.
6
Deep Blue was the first computer chess-playing system to win a chess game and match against...
a human.
a chimpanzee.
another computer chess-playing system.
a reigning world champion under regular time controls.
7
In 1999 Maurice Ashley became the first...
African-American invited to U.S. Chess Championship.
U.S. citizen to win an international tournament.
African-American to run a chess equipment business.
African-American Chess Grandmaster.
8
What didn't Judit Polgar do ?
Only woman to qualify for a World Championship tournament.
Defeated eleven current or former world champions.
Make a award winning recipe book about Hungarian cooking.
Become Chess Grandmaster at 15 years and 4 months.
9
The knight moves to a square that is two squares away horizontally and one square vertically.
False
True
10
The rook moves through any number of unoccupied squares...
one square at a time.
horizontally or vertically.
only on it's starting color.
two spaces at a time.
11
Emory A. Tate, Jr. won about 80 tournament games against chess Grandmasters. His nickname was..
Extraterrestrial.
Headhunter.
Knight slayer.
Black knight.
12
Baraka Shabazz is the only black female to...
be made a member of the United States Chess Federation.
be rated expert by United States Chess Federation.
be made a member of the World Chess Federation.
be a chess Grandmaster.
13
The bishop moves diagonal on the color it starts and...
can only move one space.
can change places with the queen.
can only move three spaces.
has no restrictions in distance for each move.
14
When a king is in 'checkmate', what does that mean?
The players whose king that is wins the game.
The player the king belongs to losses the game.
The player has to protect their queen or they lose the game.
The players whose king that is gets two new pieces.

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