1. How many women in the world hold the Grandmaster title?
2. Which world champion held the title the longest?
3. Name the opening that starts with 1.b4.
4. Who is the youngest player to become a Grandmaster?
5. How many women players in history have been ranked in the top 100 overall (men’s) ranking?
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
1) 10
2) Lasker
3) Larsen
4) Karjakin
5) 1
Only 2 of 5 correct
3. Grob? I would like to cheat right about now.
I do not know 1
2 is Lasker 27 years
3 I thought was called Orangutan by Tarrasch after a visit to Bronx Zoo during 1924 New York tournament.
4 I think is Karjakin
5 I would think more than Judit, but do not know for sure.
#3 is sometimes called Orangutan, and sometimes Santasiere’s folly. But more accepted names are Polish and Sokolsky.
Yeah, I also know the names “Sokolsky opening” and “Orang-Utan” for 1. b4.
Larsen uses the same pawn but it’s going only to b3, Grob’s attack is the other way round and start’s with 1. g4?!
I do not now any of the other questions so I just comment on that. 😉
Greetings
Jochen
About trivia quiz question 4, I think Negi , the Indian prodigy, had made the record.
qq1 and qq5 are a mystery to me. Just shows how poor my knowledge is when it comes to women 🙂
Best wishes
A. Weiler
5) Chessmetrics has Vera Menchik as Nr. 52 in May 1929, but this is of course no official list:
http://db.chessmetrics.com/CM2/PlayerProfile.asp?Params=199510SSSSS3S084775000000111000000000018810100
Chiburdanidze may have been in official top 100 around 1985/1986.
1.
Twelve
2.
Lasker 27 years
3.
Polish/Oraungutan/Sokolsky
4.
Sergei Karjarkin
5.
One