Statistics for Chess Trivia

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Type of Answer	Hint	Answer	% Correct
Piece	Moves in an "L" Shape	Knight	99%
Term	Rook moves adjacent to King, King teleports to the other side of the Rook	Castle	89%
Term	Player has no legal moves upon their turn	Stalemate	89%
Person	Current World Champion	Magnus Carlsen	88%
Term	Pawn captures diagonally to a square that an opposing pawn has just moved past	En Passant	84%
Country	Where Chess originated	India	81%
Person	Only U.S World Champion	Bobby Fischer	79%
Term	Opening sacrifice to gain a later advantage	Gambit	79%
Term	Word for giving up	Resignation	76%
Engine	Computer which defeated Kasparov in 1997	Deep Blue	74%
Number	Minimum number of moves to checkmate	Two	73%
Country	Former Country which dominated the world chess championships for over 30 years	Soviet Union	71%
Person	The "Magician From Riga"	Mikhail Tal	51%
Engine	Recently defeated Stockfish 290 wins- 24 losses	Alpha Zero	49%
Person	World champion 3 separate times	Mikhail Botvinnik	32%