Chess.com Holiday Puzzler 2023

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Answers accepted through Jan. 2, 2024. Only a member's first submission will be scored. Ties broken by earliest submission.

Use capital letters for proper nouns. For human chess players, use only first and last names in that order using plain letters only (no accent marks or titles) in American English. For engines, do not use version numbers.

Good luck on this year's quiz.

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1. What is your Chess.com username? *

2. With best play, what is the evaluation of this position with White to move?

White wins

Black wins

Draw

In these uncertain times, who can say?

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3. Which famous chess player was the prompt for the figure on the left in this AI-generated art?

4. The mother of Germany's top-rated chess player reportedly plays a musical instrument in an orchestra. How many strings does the instrument have?

5. Which grandmaster stated in an interview that after studying modern computer engines, he tries to push his h-pawn when it makes sense, but he doesn't really understand why it's so good?

6. Which grandmaster's name is an anagram of "Banjo Be Mink"?

7. Which chess master's hand is shown in the photo below?

8. Who played White in this brilliant 2023 chess game?

9. Who played Black in this 2023 blitz game?

10. Which grandmaster's name is an anagram of "A Bad Rook Inverts Doubt"?

11. Which American WGM attended the same high school as a professional baseball player who pitched a 1-2-3 ninth inning in a Major League Baseball game on July 4, 2023?

12. Which famous chess player was the prompt for this AI-generated artwork?

13. Which noted chess author played Black in this published position?

14. How many checkmates did the 2022 Indian national chess champion deliver in his first blindfold simultaneous exhibition?

15. With best play, what is the evaluation of this position with White to move?

White wins

Black wins

Draw

No Contest

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16. Which famous chess player was the prompt for this AI-generated artwork?

17. Which famous chess player declared that the meaning of life was in special and sparkling moments?

18. In which year did the world chess championship match require about 472 miles of one-way travel from city-to-city as the crow flies (according to the calculator on freemaptools.com)?

19. What is the name of the fictional world chess champion who solved crimes as a detective in a Canadian TV series?

20. Who is the highest-rated chess player born on the same day that a future New York Knicks point guard threw a 72-yard pass to defeat an in-state rival in a top-five college football game?

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