Chess Q&A

Hi,

I'm devoloping a basic program that can answer chess specific questions. It takes an user question, e.g. 'Who won against Howard Staunton in December 1843?' or 'Show me games between Magnus Carlsen and Viswanthan Anand' and returns an answer. For the first example it is 'Saint Amant', for the second it is a list with games between the two players.

Now I have to evaluate and test my program. Therefore, I collect questions I haven't asked before. That said, can anyone maybe post up to 10 questions? I would really appreciate it.

The questions should contain information PGN files can store, e.g. players (white and black), eco, opening name, moves, event, site, date, result or round.  Here are two more examples that work: 'Show me endgames with rook against rook and pawn.', 'How many times did Steinitz win against Lasker?'

And if anyone is interested, I can write a longer post how the system actually runs after the work is graded.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Best regards and thanks a lot

1. Has the Scandinavian defence ever been played in a world championship match?

2. What was the lifetime score between Nimzowitch and Tarrasch?

3. How many games did Frank Marshall win when employing the Marshall gambit?

4. Who has won the Linares tournament most often?

5. Did Emmanuel Lasker ever play Edward Lasker?

6. Did Tigran Petrosian lose a game in any Olympiad?

7. Which players have been stripped of their GM titles?

8. Who has participated in the most Candidates tournaments?

9. Who has the longest drawing streak of a GM player?

10. Show me games where Paul Morphy lost.

Hi,

here are some questions I thought of:

1. How often won Anatoly Karpov in the Caro-Kann with black?

2. Show me games with the Kalashnikov-Variation ELO >2300.

3. What ist the most played opening by José Raúl Capablanca?

4. What is the most played opening in the World Chess championship overall beginning after year 1948?

5. Which World Chess Championship had the most games ever played?

6. What is the most played move after 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 from year 1980 to today ELO >2500?

7. What are the most played first three moves Elo >2500 beginning in year 2000 to today?

8. How often played Carlsen e4 and how often he played d4?

9. Show me the shortest game of an World Chess Championship.

10. Show me games with the Caro-Kann Advance Variation black winning or Remis.

Best Wishes.

@Strangemover and @DerKaufmann That's perfect. Thanks! That are the questions I'm looking for.

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@Gramps4 Thanks for your input But your question is more 'chess.com' specific. That could be part of another interesting question answering system. Just now, I'm looking for more general questions like the ones by Strangemover and DerKaufmann.

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