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Chess

Twelve questions for Christmas

16 December 2023

9:00 AM

16 December 2023

9:00 AM

1 One top player, besides admiring his trainer’s creativity, noted that they had a shared appreciation of 1980s music. Who was the player and his trainer?

2 How to Win at Chess is a new book for novice players, which became a New York Times bestseller. Which popular YouTuber wrote it?

3 One episode of the TV spy drama series Slow Horses made reference to a chess game played in 1851.

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