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Chess (Sports) (Part-I)

📆 April 21, 2025

Total Questions: 15

1. India's first female chess grandmaster is_________. [S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-I) 15.02.2017 (Shift-I)]

Correct Answer: (a) S. Vijayalakshmi
Solution:India's first female chess grandmaster is S Vijayalakshmi. Vijayalakshmi received the title of International Women's Master in the year 1996 and Women's Grandmaster in the year 2001.

2. Tania Sachdev is associated with which of the following sports? [S.S.C. Online Stenographer 13.09.2017 (Shift-II)]

Correct Answer: (c) Chess
Solution:Tania Sachdev is an Indian chess player, who holds the FIDE titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster. She is also a chess presenter and commentator.

3. Which among the following games was very popular in ancient India? [S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-I) 30.01.2017 (Shift-II)]

Correct Answer: (a) Chess
Solution:One of the most ancient games that originated in India, Chess was initially called 'Ashtapada'. The game then came to be called as 'Chaturanga' during the rule of the Gupta Empire. Persians who travelled to ancient India had picked up the game and named it 'Shatranj'.

4. Who among the following became the youngest player to defeat world number one chess champion, Magnus Carlsen, of Norway in an online chess tournament in February 2021? [S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-I) 03.06.2022 (Shift-II)]

Correct Answer: (b) Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa
Solution:Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa became the youngest player to defeat Norway's world number one chess champion, Magnus Carlsen, in an online chess tournament in February 2021.

5. Which Indian chess player won the Cairns Cup chess tournament 2020? [S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-I) 11.08.2021 (Shift-I)]

Correct Answer: (c) Koneru Humpy
Solution:India's Koneru Humpy wins the Cairns Cup chess tournament held at St. Louis, US (United States). She won the title after finishing 6 points off 9 rounds. Reigning world champion Ju Wenjun finished with 5.5 points and secured 2nd place.

6. Who won the Chess.com's 2020 Junior Speed Online Chess Championship after beating Russia's Alexey Sarana? [S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-I) 6.08.2021 (Shift-III)]

Correct Answer: (a) Nihal Sarin
Solution:Nihal Sarin won Chess.com's 2020 Junior Speed Online Chess Championship after beating Russia's Alexey Sarana. He is only the third grandmaster from Kerala after GN Gopal and SL Narayanan.

7. Which country apart from India was declared a winner at the 2020 Online FIDE Chess Olympiad? [S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-I) 6.08.2021 (Shift-III) S.S.C. Online CGL (T-I) 16.08.2021 (Shift-I)]

Correct Answer: (a) Russia
Solution:Russia was initially declared winners after two Indian players, Nihal Sarin and Divya Deshmukh, lost out on time in the final after suffering a disconnection with the server. India had appealed against the controversial decision. However, the international chess federation Fide's president Arkady Dvorkovich decided to award the gold medal to both teams. This was the first time Fide was holding the Olympiad in an online format. India had reached the finals of the FIDE Chess Olympiad for the first time.

8. In which of the following countries was the 95th edition of the prestigious Hastings International Chess Congress held? [S.S.C. Online Graduate Level (T-I) 3.03.2020 (Shift-II)]

Correct Answer: (d) England
Solution:The Hastings International Chess Congress is an annual chess tournament which takes place in Hastings, England. India's P. Magesh Chandran wins the title in the 95th edition of the prestigious Hastings International Chess Congress. The tournament was held from 28th December 2019 to 5th January 2020.

9. To which sport the words 'Wazir', 'knight', 'king' and 'queen' are related? [S.S.C. Online MTS (T-I) 19.08.2019 (Shift-II)]

Correct Answer: (c) Chess
Solution:A chess piece, or chessman, is any of the six different types of movable objects used on a chessboard to play the game of chess. It consists of 1 king, 1 queen, 2 rooks, 2 bishops, 2 knights, and 8 pawns on both sides of the chess board.

10. R. Pragnananda is related to which sport? [S.S.C. Online MTS (T-I) 5.08.2019 (Shift-II)]

Correct Answer: (d) Chess
Solution:Rameshbabu "Pragg" Praggnanandhaa (born 10 August 2005) is an Indian chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he earned the international master title at the age of 10, the youngest at the time to do so, and the grandmaster title at age 12, the second-youngest at the time to do so.
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