Continental team championships
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1. Which of the following teams has never competed in the Pan-American Team Chess Championship?
Netherlands Antilles
Bolivia
Surinam
Ecuador
Spain
2.
Which English player defeated Karpov with Black after 1.e4 a6!? at the 1980 European Team Championship?
John D. Nunn
Tony Miles
Michael Basman
Michael Stean
Jonathan Speelman
3.
Legendary Filipino GM Eugenio Torre lost only one of his 43 Asian Team Championship games (1977–1993). Who handed him that loss?
Ian Rogers
Utut Adianto
Qi Jingxuan
Liew Chee Meng
Manuel Aaron
4.
The 1957-1983 European championship final were preceded by preliminary groups. Which is the only team ever to win all of its preliminary group matches and fail to qualify having inferior game point record?
Hungary in 1961
Czechoslovakia in 1970
Yugoslavia in 1977
West Germany in 1980
Bulgaria in 1983
5.
One Asian Team Championship was among the tightest ever at this level: the top six teams finished within one point. Which edition was it?
1977
1983
1991
1999
2003
6.
Which country finished a surprise fourth at the 1973 European Team Chess Championship in Bath?
Spain
Switzerland
East Germany
Sweden
Poland
7.
Which African team finished last at the 2003 women’s continental team event, was nevertheless invited to the Women’s World Team Championship, and then scored 0/36?
Eritrea
Algeria
Botswana
Egypt
Nigeria
8.
How many games did Tigran Petrosian lose across all eight of his European Team Championship appearances (1957–1983)?
none!
1
2
3
4
9. Which European country participated in all seven out of eight European Team Championship preliminary stages (1957–1983) and never qualified for the Finals?
Ireland
Switzerland
Austria
Netherlands
Bulgaria
10.
A move from one game at Haifa 1989 was named one of the “110 most fantastic moves ever played”. Who was X in “Greenfeld–X”?
K.Mokrý
R.Vaganian
F.Hellers
J.Polgár
F.Gheorghiu
11.
Argentina won the inaugural Pan-American Team Chess Championship in 1971 with a dazzling 25.5/28. Which two players scored a perfect 100%?
Najdorf & Sanguinetti
Sanguinetti & Panno
Panno & Schweber
Quinteros & Schweber
Panno & Quinteros
12.
Which of the following teams has never won the Asian Team Chess Championship, despite finishing on the podium as many as seven times?
India
China
Uzbekistan
Kazakhstan
Indonesia
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