My six-year-old son learned to play chess on his own from a web site, so we played our first game the other day! I spotted him a queen, but not surprisingly, it wasn't anywhere near enough. Hopefully, the handicap will shrink rapidly over the next few years until I start begging for mercy...

Rules of Chess Questions

• Q1) How many squares are on a chessboard?
• Q2) What is the most numerous chess piece?
• Q3) What is the only piece that can jump over another piece?
• Q4) What is the only maneuver in chess where you move two of your pieces at the same time?
• Q5) What is the only piece that captures in a different direction than it moves?
• Q6) What piece combines the power of a bishop and a rook?
• Q7) What special maneuver allows you to capture a piece on a square that it doesn't sit on?
• Q8) What can a pawn be promoted to when it reaches the eighth rank?
• Q9) What is the standard chess notation for castling with the king's rook?
• Q10) What is the result of the game if a player has no legal moves?
• Q11) How many times does the same position with the same player to move have to occur for a player to claim a draw?
• Q12) After how many moves by each side without a capture or pawn move can a player claim a draw?

Score yourself at home: 1 point for each correct category answer and 4 points for solving the quilt (see title clue). Complete rules can be found with the first quilt.

Category Questions:

History & Government	What legal term refers to a resident of a state who is not a national or citizen of that state?
Entertainment & Food	Who was the Lone Ranger's Indian sidekick?
Math & Science	What is the result of the corrosion of iron, by way of oxidation, in the presence of water?
Sports & Games	Which type of figure skating jump takes off from the forward outside edge and lands on the back outside edge of the opposite foot?
Geography & Nature	What is the most populous city in Indonesia?
Literature & Arts	Who is the narrator in Lord Jim, Youth, Heart of Darkness, and Chance?

Category Answers:

Literature & Arts	DOGPATCH	Al Capp drew the hillbilly comic strip from 1934 to 1977.
History & Government	GINSBURG	Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was born as Joan Ruth Bader in Brooklyn, New York in 1933.
Math & Science	ALVEOLI	They also take carbon dioxide out of the blood.
Entertainment & Food	THOMAS	Santa Monica High School graduate Heather Thomas was voted "Favorite Female Newcomer" by US magazine readers in 1982.
Sports & Games	MCENROE	John McEnroe beat his younger sibling Patrick 3-6, 6-2, 6-4. Patrick replaced John as captain of the U.S. Davis Cup team in 2000.
Geography & Nature	RWANDA	The country gained its independence from Belgium on July 1, 1962.

Quiz Quilt Answer: ABOARD (Fifth letters)

A stowaway "aboard" a pirate ship might be asked to walk "a board" called the plank.

c) Knute Rockne

His Notre Dame teams won 88.1% of their games and captured six national titles during his thirteen seasons.

Which college football coach had the highest career winning percentage?

a) Barry Switzer
b) Frank Leahy
c) Knute Rockne
d) Tom Osborne