1915 in chess - Quiz
  • 1. Who started the Marshall Chess Divan in 1915?
A) Frank Marshall
B) Edward Lasker
C) José Raúl Capablanca
D) Jackson Showalter
  • 2. Which player won the 1915 New York tournament held from 19 April to 7 May?
A) Edward Lasker
B) Oscar Chajes
C) José Raúl Capablanca
D) Frank Marshall
  • 3. Who won the 16th U.S. Open Chess Championship in 1915?
A) Jackson Showalter
B) Edward Lasker
C) Frank Marshall
D) Norman T. Whitaker
  • 4. In which city was the 16th U.S. Open Chess Championship held?
A) Vienna, Austria
B) Excelsior, Minnesota
C) New York, USA
D) London, England
  • 5. Who won the 7th Leopold Trebitsch Memorial Tournament in Vienna?
A) Arthur Kaufmann
B) Richard Réti
C) Georg Marco
D) Carl Schlechter
  • 6. Who won the Moscow tournament held in December 1915?
A) Peter Yurdansky
B) Alexander Alekhine
C) Vladimir Nenarokov
D) Nikolai Zubarev
  • 7. Which player won the 6th Danish Chess Championship in 1915?
A) Reginald Pryce Michell
B) G. J. van Gelder
C) Johannes Giersing
D) Max Marchand
  • 8. Which player defeated Siegbert Tarrasch in a 1915 match in Berlin?
A) Jan F. Esser
B) Gyula Breyer
C) John O'Hanlon
D) Jacques Mieses
  • 9. Who invented the first mechanical chess clock in 1883 and died in 1915?
A) Mattia Cavallotti
B) Eugene Cook
C) Thomas Bright Wilson
D) Isaac Rice
  • 10. Which famous chess gambit is named after Isaac Rice, who died in 1915?
A) Marshall Attack
B) Cavallotti Countergambit
C) Alekhine Defense
D) Rice Gambit
  • 11. In what city was Nicolaas Cortlever born in 1915?
A) Amsterdam
B) Reigate
C) Vilna
D) Marburg
  • 12. Who won the 25th London City championship in March 1915?
A) Sir George Thomas
B) Reginald Pryce Michell
C) Edward Guthlac Sergeant
D) Theodor Germann
  • 13. Which player dominated multiple tournaments held in Triberg in 1915?
A) Alexey Selezniev
B) Efim Bogoljubow
C) Ilya Rabinovich
D) Peter Romanovsky
  • 14. When did Eugene Cook, a prominent American chess composer, die?
A) 2 November
B) 19 March
C) 3 March
D) 21 February
  • 15. Where was René Letelier born?
A) Lviv
B) San Bernardo
C) Landskrona
D) Vilna
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