| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | NOT CHESS AGAIN! $200: When things are hopeless, rather than waiting for checkmate, it's considered polite to do this, like Richard Nixon resign |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | NOT CHESS AGAIN! $400: If one of these moves 2 squares rather than one, it may be captured "en passant", in passing a pawn |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | NOT CHESS AGAIN! $600: In a set of standard Staunton-style pieces, not bishops but these pieces are topped with crosses kings |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | NOT CHESS AGAIN! $800: White moves first & looks to increase his advantage; black replies & seeks to gain this, part of Wyoming's state nickname equality |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | NOT CHESS AGAIN! $1000: (Jennifer Shahade presents the clue.) 32 of the 34 games in the 1927 Capablanca-Alekhine world championship match began with this opening that was in the news again 93 years later thanks to the fictional Beth Harmon the Queen's Gambit |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | CHESS $400: The first "C" in ICCF; it stands for how moves are exchanged between players geographically apart correspondence |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | CHESS $800: The "Sicilian" one starts with a move by black on the queen's half of the board defense |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | CHESS $1200: It's the 8-letter term for the direction in which white has chosen to castle kingside |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | CHESS $1600: Bring your queen out fast against an inexperienced player & you can have this victory after just 2 moves a fool's mate |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | CHESS $2000: Even chess masters often begin a game with this familiar opening, named for a Spanish priest the Ruy Lopez |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | CHESS, MASTERS $400: (Jennifer Shahade delivers the clue.) In what became known as the "game of the century", in 1956 this then-little-known 13-year-old announced his presence with a spectacular queen sacrifice to defeat one of America's top masters (Bobby) Fischer |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | CHESS, MASTERS $800: (Jennifer Shahade delivers the clue.) Famed for works like "Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2", in the 1920s this great Dadaist all but abandoned art for chess, becoming a master & going on to play for France in four Chess Olympiads Duchamp |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | CHESS, MASTERS $1200: (Jennifer Shahade delivers the clue.) Many a seemingly hopeless position has been turned into a draw via this tactic, with the apparently winning side's king unable to escape repeated nagging attacks by an enemy piece perpetual check |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | CHESS, MASTERS $1600: (Jennifer Shahade delivers the clue.) 2023 saw the end of an era as this longtime world champion opted not to defend his title, even though he remained by far the world's top-rated player Carlsen |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | CHESS, MASTERS $2000: (Jennifer Shahade delivers the clue.) My book "Chess Queens" tells the story of the game's female pioneers, like this trio of stereotype-shattering sisters whose youngest, Judit, became both the world's youngest grandmaster & the first woman to be ranked among the world's top 10 players the Polgárs (the Polgár sisters) |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | CHESS PAINS $200: Alexander Alekhine was said to have resigned a game not by tipping this piece over but by hurling it across the room the king |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | CHESS PAINS $400: Alexandru Crisan was stripped of the coveted title international this after allegations he'd attained it by fixing games grandmaster |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | CHESS PAINS $600: In 2008 Ukrainian star Vassily Ivanchuk stormed out of a Chess Olympiad rather than submit to one of these tests a drug test |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | CHESS PAINS $800: It took a phone call from Henry Kissinger & a doubling of the prize fund to get this tempestuous American to play his Soviet foe in 1972 Bobby Fischer |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | CHESS PAINS $1000: His name signifies "newcomer", & this relative newcomer sparked accusations of cheating after a 2022 upset of champ Magnus Carlsen (Hans) Niemann |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | CHESS FOR CHAMPS $200: It's the only chess piece that can hop over an opposing piece when it moves a knight |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | CHESS FOR CHAMPS $400: In 2016 Timur Gareyev played a record 48 simultaneous games wearing one of these; he won 35, lost 6 & drew 7 a blindfold |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | CHESS FOR CHAMPS $600: The Ruy Lopez is also known as the Spanish Opening; the Giuoco Piano, as this one (not to be confused with the Sicilian Defense) the Italian Opening |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | CHESS FOR CHAMPS $800: In an anticlimax, a 1978 World Championship game was this kind of draw on the 124th move a stalemate |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | CHESS FOR CHAMPS $1000: In 1997 the chess world was shocked when world champ Garry Kasparov lost a match to this IBM computer program Deep Blue |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | NEW CHESS STRATAGEMS? $200: Not the Sicilian Defense but this legal one that may include the irresistible impulse test an insanity defense |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | NEW CHESS STRATAGEMS? $400: Not the Trompowsky but this 3-word attack that renders a computer no good to its legitimate user denial-of-service |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | NEW CHESS STRATAGEMS? $600: Not the Ruy Lopez, but the him, A.C. Slater on "Saved by the Bell" Mario Lopez |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | NEW CHESS STRATAGEMS? $800: Not a discovered check but this moment where you see whether you've got the stuff inside to meet a challenge a gut check |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | NEW CHESS STRATAGEMS? $1000: Not a knight fork, but this fork, named for the food it's used on spaghetti fork |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | CHESS TERMS $200: A person used by others as part of a scheme a pawn |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | CHESS TERMS $400: The first night of a play at a theater an opening |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | CHESS TERMS $600: A gregarious crow of Europe with black plumage a rook |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | CHESS TERMS $800: A title in kung fu, or a famous nickname in '70s hip-hop grandmaster |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | CHESS TERMS $1000: Genesis 31 says, "Then Jacob offered" this "upon the mount" a sacrifice |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | CHESS TALK $200: A player conceding defeat is said to do this, like someone quitting an office resigning |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | CHESS TALK $400: If this special move is done on the queenside, it's "long"; on the kingside, "short" castling |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | CHESS TALK $600: An attack that forces a piece to move & expose another piece behind it is called this, after a type of beam discovered in 1895 X-ray |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | CHESS TALK $800: The horizontal rows of squares on a chessboard are the ranks; the vertical ones are these files |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | CHESS TALK $1000: Only the humble pawn can make this special type of capture with a French name en passant |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | SAY YES TO THE CHESS $200: In standard western chess sets, this piece is topped with a cross a king |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | SAY YES TO THE CHESS $400: Chess games are typically divided into the opening, the middle game & this terminal phase the endgame |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | SAY YES TO THE CHESS $600: It's the number of white squares on a standard chessboard 32 |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | SAY YES TO THE CHESS $800: The queen's gambit is marked by white's second-move offer to sacrifice one of these, temporarily a pawn |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | SAY YES TO THE CHESS $1000: The "hypermodern" Reti opening begins with a move of this piece the white knight |
| #7715, aired 2018-03-09 | CHESS PIECES IN DISGUISE $200: Let's sea... it precedes clam, crab & mackerel king |
| #7715, aired 2018-03-09 | CHESS PIECES IN DISGUISE $400: An item deposited as security is in this pawn |
| #7715, aired 2018-03-09 | CHESS PIECES IN DISGUISE $600: Singer Gladys or Hoops coach Bob a Knight |
| #7715, aired 2018-03-09 | CHESS PIECES IN DISGUISE $800: To swindle someone rook |
| #7715, aired 2018-03-09 | CHESS PIECES IN DISGUISE $1000: Author of "The Roman Hat Mystery" Ellery Queen |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | LET'S PLAY CHESS $200: It's the only piece that can be promoted to one of greater value a pawn |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | LET'S PLAY CHESS $400: If an identical position occurs 3 times in a game, a player may claim this result, then go kiss his sister a draw |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | LET'S PLAY CHESS $600: A tactic via which one piece attacks 2 opposing ones is called this, like a common dining utensil a fork |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | LET'S PLAY CHESS $800: Trading a knight or bishop for one of these more valuable pieces is known as winning the exchange a rook |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | LET'S PLAY CHESS $1000: Descriptive notation like P-Q4 has been largely replaced by this "mathematical" kind, which would say simply d4 an algebraic term |
| #7579, aired 2017-07-20 | HISTORICAL CHESS PIECES $200: 14th c. knight Sir John Hawkwood served England, Florence, Pisa & Milan as this type of paid soldier a mercenary |
| #7579, aired 2017-07-20 | HISTORICAL CHESS PIECES $400: A 2007 biography of this young French warrior & saint calls her a pawn, ultimately sacrificed Joan of Arc |
| #7579, aired 2017-07-20 | HISTORICAL CHESS PIECES $600: Don Juan Enguera, bishop of Vich, was a "grand" this, holding the line against heresy in Spain a Grand Inquisitor |
| #7579, aired 2017-07-20 | HISTORICAL CHESS PIECES $800: This learned 17th century Swedish queen was known as "The Minerva of the North" Christina |
| #7579, aired 2017-07-20 | HISTORICAL CHESS PIECES $1000: This English king's greatest achievement was Westminster Abbey, consecrated in 1065 just days before his death Edward the Confessor |
| #7166, aired 2015-11-09 | CHESS CHAMPS $200: World champion Viswanathan Anand was born in this country India |
| #7166, aired 2015-11-09 | CHESS CHAMPS $400: World champ Mikhail Botvininnik practiced concentration by having this blown in his face cigarette smoke |
| #7166, aired 2015-11-09 | CHESS CHAMPS $600: In 1978 Nona Gaprindashvili became the first woman to be awarded this title grandmaster |
| #7166, aired 2015-11-09 | CHESS CHAMPS $800: He resigned for good in 2008 in Iceland, where he'd beaten Boris Spassky in 1972 (Bobby) Fischer |
| #7166, aired 2015-11-09 | CHESS CHAMPS $1000: World champ from 1985 to 2000, this Russian modestly titled his series of books on other champs "My Great Predecessors" (Garry) Kasparov |
| #7120, aired 2015-07-24 | NOT CHESS AGAIN! $200: In doing this, a player moves a rook either 2 squares to the left or 3 to the right castling |
| #7120, aired 2015-07-24 | NOT CHESS AGAIN! $400: If one of these moves 2 squares rather than one, it may be captured "en passant", in passing a pawn |
| #7120, aired 2015-07-24 | NOT CHESS AGAIN! $800: White moves first & looks to increase his advantage; black replies & seeks to gain this, part of Wyoming's state nickname equality |
| #7120, aired 2015-07-24 | NOT CHESS AGAIN! $1,000 (Daily Double): In a set of standard Staunton-style pieces, not bishops but these pieces are topped with crosses kings |
| #7120, aired 2015-07-24 | NOT CHESS AGAIN! $1000: If a game opens d4 d5 c4 you're playing the queen's this, you schemer you a gambit |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | CHESS DRAMA $200: In the 2006 World title match, the challenger accused the champ of consulting a computer during visits to this room the bathroom |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | CHESS DRAMA $400: Aron Nimzovich once jumped on a table & screamed, "Why must I lose to this idiot!"--how like a GM, one of these a grandmaster |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | CHESS DRAMA $600: Some of our champions know how this champion felt when he lost a 1997 match to IBM's Deep Blue computer Kasparov |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | CHESS DRAMA $800: A 1978 match saw claims that this type of 16-letter "beyond the mind" expert was using telepathy to confuse 1 player a parapsychologist |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | CHESS DRAMA $1000: Cosmo selected this 22-year-old Norwegian, the new world champ, as one of its Sexiest Men of 2013 Magnus Carlsen |
| #6556, aired 2013-03-04 | CHESS? YES! $200: This piece that starts off in the corner is generally worth about 5 pawns a rook |
| #6556, aired 2013-03-04 | CHESS? YES! $400: To earn this title, a player must attain a minimum of 2500 rating points Grandmaster |
| #6556, aired 2013-03-04 | CHESS? YES! $600: To fianchetto one of these pieces is to move it onto one of the board's long diagonals a bishop |
| #6556, aired 2013-03-04 | CHESS? YES! $800: A game in which each player is allotted 5 minutes or less is called this type, German for "lightning" blitz |
| #6556, aired 2013-03-04 | CHESS? YES! $1000: One of black's most popular defenses is called this, a term for a person from a Mediterranean island Sicilian |
| #6326, aired 2012-03-05 | CHESS ME, YOU FOOL! $200: It's the number of white squares on a standard chessboard 32 |
| #6326, aired 2012-03-05 | CHESS ME, YOU FOOL! $400: If you place this piece in the center of the board, it can control a maximum of 27 squares (hint: that's a lot) the queen |
| #6326, aired 2012-03-05 | CHESS ME, YOU FOOL! $600: To give unwanted advice about another player's game is to do this, a Yiddish term for offering intrusive commentary kibbitz |
| #6326, aired 2012-03-05 | CHESS ME, YOU FOOL! $800: It's the only move in which 2 pieces, the king & the rook, are moved simultaneously castling |
| #6326, aired 2012-03-05 | CHESS ME, YOU FOOL! $1000: It's an opening strategy in which one player sacrifices a pawn or piece in order to gain a positional advantage the opening gambit |
| #5978, aired 2010-09-15 | CHESS PIECES $200: The chess piece that there are the most of the pawns |
| #5978, aired 2010-09-15 | CHESS PIECES $400: The 2 chess pieces of which each side has only one the king & queen |
| #5978, aired 2010-09-15 | CHESS PIECES $600: The piece that shares its name with a job in the Catholic church the bishop |
| #5978, aired 2010-09-15 | CHESS PIECES $800: The one that shares its name with a crow relative a rook |
| #5978, aired 2010-09-15 | CHESS PIECES $1000: The only piece in the back row that can start a game a knight |
| #5936, aired 2010-06-07 | CHESS $400: It's the traditional non-verbal way to signal that you resign turning over your king |
| #5936, aired 2010-06-07 | CHESS $800: These have the same value as bishops, but you can force mate with only a king & 2 bishops, not with a king & 2 these knights |
| #5936, aired 2010-06-07 | CHESS $1200: Losing a bishop but capturing a rook is called "winning" this type of trade, also a term for a swap of hostages an exchange |
| #5936, aired 2010-06-07 | CHESS $1600: The departure of both queens is the traditional point at which this final phase of the battle begins the endgame |
| #5936, aired 2010-06-07 | CHESS $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows off his moves on the monitor.) In this classic chess opening, after white plays e4, to fight for the center, black plays c5 in this 8-letter defense named for a Mediterranean island the Sicilian defense |
| #5802, aired 2009-12-01 | CHESS $200: World champ Garry Kasparov lost a 1997 match to a computer program from this company IBM |
| #5802, aired 2009-12-01 | CHESS $400: Like the knight, this chess piece is worth about 3 pawns a bishop |
| #5802, aired 2009-12-01 | CHESS $600: This late champ patented a now-standard chess clock that gives a player added time after each move Bobby Fischer |
| #5802, aired 2009-12-01 | CHESS $800: Viswanathan Anand won a 2007 supertournament, making him the first world champ from this country India |
| #5802, aired 2009-12-01 | CHESS $1000: You can always learn a few moves in this square's park at 5th Ave. & 4th St. in Greenwich Village Washington Square Park |
| #5781, aired 2009-11-02 | ALSO A CHESS PIECE $400: To leave something as a guarantee in return for money pawn |
| #5781, aired 2009-11-02 | ALSO A CHESS PIECE $1200: 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu was this in Johannesburg a bishop |
| #5781, aired 2009-11-02 | ALSO A CHESS PIECE $1600: A black bird a rook |
| #5781, aired 2009-11-02 | ALSO A CHESS PIECE $2000: A paladin a knight |
| #5781, aired 2009-11-02 | ALSO A CHESS PIECE $5,000 (Daily Double): 2 historical books in the Old Testament Kings |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | LET'S TALK CHESS, CHAMPS $400: Even with two extra pawns, white can't force a win here, because these pieces can travel only on opposite-colored squares the bishops |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | LET'S TALK CHESS, CHAMPS $800: Literally "in passing", it's the 2-word term for how a pawn can capture another pawn that's moved past it en passant |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | LET'S TALK CHESS, CHAMPS $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew demonstrates with a chessboard.) White should have an easy win here, but he blows it by moving his queen to the D6 square, leading to this drawn outcome a stalemate |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | LET'S TALK CHESS, CHAMPS $1600: Initiated by the moves E4 E6, this defense got its name from its use by a Paris team in an 1834 match with London the French defense |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | LET'S TALK CHESS, CHAMPS $2000: (Jon of the Clue Crew demonstrates with a chessboard.) White can't move his knight, because doing so would expose his king; the knight's said to be stuck to the king with this tactic, named for a pointy little object pinned |
| #5449, aired 2008-04-24 | A GAME OF CHESS $200: If you pawn your chess set, the shop will check to make sure there are this many pawns in it 16 |
| #5449, aired 2008-04-24 | A GAME OF CHESS $400: In castling, you move the king & this piece (aka a castle) simultaneously the rook |
| #5449, aired 2008-04-24 | A GAME OF CHESS $600: It's the only chess piece that can jump over others the knight |
| #5449, aired 2008-04-24 | A GAME OF CHESS $800: The 17th letter of the English alphabet, in chess notation it stands for the most powerful piece on the board Q |
| #5449, aired 2008-04-24 | A GAME OF CHESS $1000: The final stage, with most of the pieces off the board, it's also a Samuel Beckett play title the endgame |
| #5241, aired 2007-05-28 | CHESS NUTS $200: Careful! In tournament play, once you do this, you have to move the piece touch it |
| #5241, aired 2007-05-28 | CHESS NUTS $600: In the Looking-Glass world, this author used chess pieces to represent members of royalty Lewis Carroll |
| #5241, aired 2007-05-28 | CHESS NUTS $800: The 2 main "mates" that end a chess game; one's a win, the other a draw checkmate & stalemate |
| #5241, aired 2007-05-28 | CHESS NUTS $1000: A Grandmaster should plan a "grand" this, the first phase of a chess game an opening |
| #5241, aired 2007-05-28 | CHESS NUTS $2,000 (Daily Double): It's the playing unit that's most often sacrificed in a gambit a pawn |
| #4892, aired 2005-12-13 | CHESS PAINS $400: In the endgame, 2 opposing ones of these pieces that always move on the same color often leads to a draw bishops |
| #4892, aired 2005-12-13 | CHESS PAINS $800: In the newspaper, your dumb move that lost a knight would be followed by this symbol, maybe 2 of them question marks |
| #4892, aired 2005-12-13 | CHESS PAINS $1200: A guy looking over a game making annoying suggestions is doing this, from a Yiddish word kibitz |
| #4892, aired 2005-12-13 | CHESS PAINS $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew plays chess with Cheryl.) By moving my rook, I've given my opponent the nasty shock of discovered this check |
| #4892, aired 2005-12-13 | CHESS PAINS $2000: In tournament play, a fallen flag means you've lost because this has happened ran out of time |
| #4761, aired 2005-04-25 | CHESS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue while demonstrating such a move with Cheryl at a chessboard.) The knight is well suited to this maneuver, that threatens two pieces at one time; it shares its name with a piece of tableware fork |
| #4761, aired 2005-04-25 | CHESS $800: The "Sicilian" one starts with a move by black on the queen's half of the board a defense |
| #4761, aired 2005-04-25 | CHESS $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue while demonstrating in a chess game with Sarah.) It's the 8-letter term for the direction in which I've chosen to castle kingside |
| #4761, aired 2005-04-25 | CHESS $1600: Bring your queen out fast & you can have this victory after just 2 moves fool's mate |
| #4761, aired 2005-04-25 | CHESS $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue while at a chessboard with Cheryl.) Even chess masters often begin a game with this familiar opening named for a Spanish priest Ruy Lopez |
| #4439, aired 2003-12-18 | OOOH...CHESS $600: In German this piece is a springer; in French, cavalier knight |
| #4439, aired 2003-12-18 | OOOH...CHESS $800: When it moves this piece will always wind up on the same color square that it began the game on bishop |
| #4439, aired 2003-12-18 | OOOH...CHESS $1000: Invented in the 1500s to speed up the game, this manuever involves 2 pieces of the same color castling |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | A GAME OF CHESS $400: It's customary but not obligatory to declare when you have your foe in this, which can occur several times in a game check |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | A GAME OF CHESS $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands on a gigantic chessboard at a beach.) A recommended opening move is "'P'-ing to K-4", which is short for this pawn to king 4 |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | A GAME OF CHESS $1200: In castling, you put one of these, also called castles, in a stronger attacking position a rook |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | A GAME OF CHESS $1600: (Cheryl is on the beach chessboard again.) When setting up to start a chess game, remember the rule: Queen on this her own color |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | A GAME OF CHESS $2000: The final stage, with most of the pieces off the board, it's also a Samuel Beckett play title "Endgame" |
| #3959, aired 2001-11-15 | CHESS NUTS $200: It's the only chess piece that can jump over others a knight |
| #3959, aired 2001-11-15 | CHESS NUTS $600: The 17th letter of the English alphabet, in chess notation it stands for the most powerful piece on the board Q (for queen) |
| #3959, aired 2001-11-15 | CHESS NUTS $1000: In 1985 he became the youngest world chess champion when he defeated another Soviet player, Anatoly Karpov Garry Kasparov |
| #3959, aired 2001-11-15 | CHESS NUTS $2,000 (Daily Double): If you pawn your chess set, the shop will check to make sure there are this many pawns in it 16 |
| #3628, aired 2000-05-17 | CHESS NUTS $100: Neither player wins with this kind of "mate" Stalemate |
| #3628, aired 2000-05-17 | CHESS NUTS $200: The only chess move in which a player may move 2 of his own pieces at the same time Castling |
| #3628, aired 2000-05-17 | CHESS NUTS $300: In chess notation, QR stands for this Queen side rook |
| #3628, aired 2000-05-17 | CHESS NUTS $400: A special way a pawn may capture, it's French for "in passing" En passant |
| #3628, aired 2000-05-17 | CHESS NUTS $500: Bobby Fischer beat this man in Iceland in 1972 to take the world chess title Boris Spassky |
| #3421, aired 1999-06-21 | CHESS MANIA $100: Before becoming a legend, this star of "The Maltese Falcon" hustled strangers at chess in NYC Humphrey Bogart |
| #3421, aired 1999-06-21 | CHESS MANIA $200: In some Asian countries the chess piece we call a bishop shares its name with this desert animal a camel |
| #3421, aired 1999-06-21 | CHESS MANIA $300: In 1997, at the age of 14 years, 2 months, France's Etienne Bacrot became the youngest one of these ever grandmaster |
| #3421, aired 1999-06-21 | CHESS MANIA $400: As late as the 16th century this special move involving the king was 2 turns, not just 1 castling |
| #3421, aired 1999-06-21 | CHESS MANIA $500: In the U.S. Chess Open at Columbus, Ohio in 1977, one of these named "Sneaky Pete" played a computer |
| #3032, aired 1997-11-04 | THE CHESS CLUB $200: Traditionally, to resign a player tips over this piece king |
| #3032, aired 1997-11-04 | THE CHESS CLUB $400: The number of files on the board, it's the same as the number of ranks 8 |
| #3032, aired 1997-11-04 | THE CHESS CLUB $600: In chess, notation "x" means your piece has been captured & "ch" means you're in this check |
| #3032, aired 1997-11-04 | THE CHESS CLUB $800: It's the only piece that can't move to an adjacent square the knight |
| #3032, aired 1997-11-04 | THE CHESS CLUB $1000: In a Lewis Carroll book, Alice begins as one of these white pieces but later becomes a queen a pawn |
