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Top Grandmaster Gawain Jones has kindly given up his time to answer some questions for the Yorkshire Chess Association website! It's well worth a read... Interview with Gawain Jones

There is also a quiz for anyone who is interested, currently only 1 player has managed to get 100%, a certain IM (not mentioning any names) failed to achieve top marks but only because he couldn't name who the youngest ever grandmaster was! Check it out - General Knowledge Chess Quiz

Fantastic response for the Yorkshire Chess Quiz - we've now had over 100 people try it out so far... Still only one with 100% (see home page for leaders).

It seems nobody knows who is the women's world champion! Tut tut

I was quite pleased with how I did in that quiz, although I did have to guess two of the pictures.

Joey Stewart wrote:I was quite pleased with how I did in that quiz, although I did have to guess two of the pictures.

Nice Quiz Matthew, Joey did you beat 48/55? I also had to guess on a picture of Peter Cloudsdale (correctly I may add), thought I might have had to claim a 10.2 as I was getting short on time! In one of the diagrams instinctively went for the correct Rh7 then convinced myself to choose Nd6? bit like my OTB play

Excellent quiz. I only got 47, but I did know who the Womens' World Champion is.

What a good quiz - scored 53. Failed miserably to get Karjakin as youngest GM - not sure what the other missing one was.

I got 51, so apparently four marks were up for grabs in recognising Peter Cloudsdale. Well, I don't know, who's he?

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Perhaps I only got 1 wrong then - that suggests Jonathan that you got another one wrong as well as the famous Mr Cloudsdale. The only reason I got him was that I knew he wasn't the others!

There could also be degrees of wrongness? Maybe you get some points for recognising the second youngest GM for example.

pretty sure that I just got Mr Cloudsdale wrong.

oh, he's President of the YCA! A "general knowledge" question?! ...

I guessed peter clousdale right, well a semi guess since I knew two of the other people on the list, and managed to guess another of the obscure pictures right so ended up getting 55/55 which I was quite pleased with.

You should warn people it is timed. I went to get a drink (honest!) and it timed me out.

Nice quiz. Like others, I had to guess on the Peter Cloudsdale picture, but managed to get 100%.