Chess Openings Quiz | Best Chess Opening



1)	How much time do you spend each week studying chess?
		less than an hour
		one to three hours
		More than three hours
2)	Which is the most important part of the game to study first?
		The Opening
		The Middlegame
		The Endings
		Tactics
		Psychology
3)	Which Black defense to 1.e4 should you play?
		The Sicilian Defense (Bobby Fischer's favorite)
		The French Defense (the most solid)
		Alekhine's Defense (the most tactical)
		The Open Game (1.e4 e5 and the most popular among modern masters)
		It depends
4)	How often do grandmasters change their openings?
		Never - grandmasters study only one set of openings for life.
		Every 10 years or so
		Every six months or so
		Each time they play the White pieces, to keep their opponents guessing
5)	In the New York Times, what did grandmaster and author Andy Soltis have to say on the topic of memorizing openings?
		"...depending on which opening you want to play, memorization can be very valuable. Masters memorize all the time - then tell you not to do it."
		"...and every teacher worth his salt knows that memorizing openings is largely a waste of the student's time."
		"...it's a shame that weaker players routinely beat better players by memorizing openings."
6)	How often do chess masters win in the opening moves?
		More than 55 percent of games are won (lost) in the opening.
		About 10 percent are won (lost) in the opening.
		It's rare that a master wins or loses against other masters in the opening moves.
7)	What happens to the strength of a chess playing computer program when it is forced to play without its opening book?
		The program plays at about the same strength but with strange opening moves.
		The program plays a stronger, more tactically sharp style.
		The program plays a significantly weaker game overall.
8)	When did masters begin using Bookup (now Chess Openings Wizard) to prepare their openings?
		In 2000, the year Bookup 2000 arrived
		In 1995, the year of Windows 95
		In 1990, the year of the Turbo/Borland Pascal compiler
		In 1984, the year the Macintosh arrived