Chess.com Holiday Puzzler 2020

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Answers accepted through Jan. 4, 2021. Only a member's first submission will be scored. Ties broken by earliest submission.

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Good luck on this year's quiz.

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1. What is your Chess.com username? *

2. Fill in the blank to complete the quote: A famous mathematician once said, "chess is the ____ of the mind."

3. Which world chess champion was born on the date furthest from Christmas (in either direction) on the calendar?

4. Who played Black below in one of the most widely viewed chess games of the year?

5. An international master once said that convincing players a certain opening is unsound is like convincing a child there is no Santa Claus. What was the opening?

6. Who played White in this 2020 chess game below?

7. The movement of which chess piece on a 16,900-square board is depicted in the illustration below?

8. In what year was a chess grandmaster born who once said he cannot stand winning positions?

9. Which famous chess player's shoes are shown in the below photograph?

10. Which chess character's name is an anagram of "ovals by vigor"?

11. Who played Black in this 2020 chess game below?

12. Which year's world chess championship was played in a venue that was said to have looked as if it had giant white bats on the ceiling?

13. Which famous chess player's hand is shown in the below photo?

14. What is the Chebyshev distance between the squares a8 and g1 on a normal chessboard?

15. Which famous chess player's name is an anagram of "nauseous pill"?

16. What is the evaluation of the position below with correct play and Black to move?

17. Who played Black in this 2020 chess game below?

18. Which famous chess player's elbow is shown in the photograph below?

19. Which chess player took the photograph below of these green curtains?

20. How many days old was the oldest world chess champion on the day he played his last game as the reigning world chess champion?

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