Can You Solve Our 2023 Holiday Puzzler?
Your favorite annual chess quiz tradition is back for the 2023 holidays . Play the puzzler by clicking here, scrolling down to the bottom of the page, or going here. Enjoy this year's quiz, and see if you can win one of our prizes for a top score!
Update, January 3, with answers and winners:
Rules:
- All ties will be resolved by the earliest received submission, so send in your answers as soon as you know them. But try to be as accurate as possible—it usually takes close to a perfect score to win.
- Answers will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on Tuesday, January 2, 2024. Note that only a member's first submission will be considered.
- Spelling counts. The quiz is scored automatically by Google Forms, so make sure you spell your responses correctly. For player names, write the first and last name in American English only, and in that order. For proper nouns such as names, use a capital letter as the first letter of each word. Do not use any accent marks or titles (GM, IM, etc.).
- You are allowed to use any resources at your disposal to get the answers: engines, web searches, comment sections, phone-a-friend, etc.
- Provide your valid Chess.com username and an e-mail for your answer receipt in the form.
Prizes:
- 1st-3rd place: One year of Chess.com Diamond membership
- 4th-10th place: One year of Chess.com Platinum membership
- 11th-20th place: One year of Chess.com Gold membership
The Puzzler:
(Mobile users: If you are having trouble filling out the embedded form below, you can complete the form here.)
2. Draw
3. Fabiano Caruana
4. 4
5. Hikaru Nakamura
6. Benjamin Bok
7. Michael Adams
8. Torch
9. Magnus Carlsen
10. Nodirbek Abdusattorov
11. Jennifer Yu
12. Anatoly Karpov
13. Jeremy Silman
14. 3
15. White wins
16. Alexandra Kosteniuk
17. Ding Liren
18. 1894
19. Arkady Balagan
20. Wesley So
