This quiz will test your knowledge of both chess and backgammon terms, the two most popular skill games. Passionate players worldwide are sure to take up the challenge to increase their vocabulary for both chess and backgammon.
These 2 short backgammon and chess quiz will tease your brain with a total of 6 questions and answers.
Let’s check it out mate and see if you hit all the blots.

1) What does it mean to be cramped in chess terms?
A. A piece having limited movement.
B. A piece is surrounded by opposing pieces
C. A piece is stuck in a corner because of friendly pieces

2) What is a Decoy in chess players’ terms?
A. Move that delivers the King two spaces towards a Rook, and puts that Rook on the other side of the King.
B. Movement of a pawn to protect a more powerful piece
C. Strategy to tempt an opposing player’s chess piece to an undesirable square.

3) What does a Royal Fork refer to in chess terms?
A. Piece caught between the king and queen.
B. A pawn that has been promoted to a Queen.
C. Pawn in front of either the King or the Queen.

Chess Quiz Answers. Are you King or Queen of the chessboard?
1) A. Cramped: having limited movement.
2) C. Decoy: strategy to tempt an opposing player’s chess piece to an undesirable square.
3) A. Royal Fork: piece caught between the king and queen.

Other chess lingo at gamerisms includes Poisoned Pawn, Smothered Mate, Double Attack, Quiet Move, Kick and Fortress.
Along with a 10 question/answer Chess Quiz, there is a 3-part Chess Glossary
at gamerisms.

1) What does the backgammon game term Air Ball mean?
A. Rolling the dice outside the board, thus forfeiting the roll.
B. Rolling a two and a three. Michael “Air” Jordan’s jersey number was twenty-three.
C. A roll that gives no advantage.

2) What do backgammon players’ mean by Crunch?
A. Holding six points in a row so that an opponent is stuck behind it.
B. Player’s position whereby a prime must be broken up as the only play.
C. Leaving a blot when hitting an opponent’s blot.

3) What do the backgammon terms of Beaver/Binache mean?
A. Strategy of establishing primes in the opponent’s home board.
B. Any point with 6 or more checkers on it.
C. One player doubles, and his opponent immediately redoubles.

Backgammon Quiz Answers. Did you hit all your blots?
1) C. Air Ball: a roll that gives no advantage.
2) B. Crunch: player’s position whereby a prime must be broken up as the only play.
3) C. Beaver/Binache: one player doubles, and his opponent