Daily Quiz | On the game of Chess
World Chess champion Garri Kasparov (right) ponders on his next move against Deep Thought, a chess computer operated by Feng-Hsiung Hsu, during their match in New York in 1988. Deep thought is capable of analysing 700,000 positions per second and five to 20 moves ahead by each side, as well as discerning each move’s implications
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India had hosted an earlier version of the tournament in 2002. Who won the tournament?
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A game of Chess ends with a result when one player ‘checkmates’ the other. The word checkmate was derived from the Persian word Shah mat. What does this mean?
Answer : The King is helpless/dead
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Who was the first official world champion of the game?
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What is the name of the rating system that measure’s a player’s prowess in the game?
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How many moves was the longest [known] chess game in history?
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Who was the first grandmaster to be beaten by a computer, in 1988. Name the computer that had beaten him.
Answer : Garri Kasparov, Deep thought
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Published – July 22, 2025 05:00 pm IST
