| KASPAROV | Garry --, former World Chess Champion (8) |
| SCHOFIELD | Garry ......... , former Great Britain and Leeds Rhinos player (9) |
| LATVIANS | Former world chess champion Mikhail Tal, and others |
| EMANUEL | Former World Chess Champion ___ Lasker |
| KARPOV | Former world chess champion Anatoly |
| TAL | Former world chess champion is totally centered |
| ANAND | Indian Grandmaster and former world chess champion, Vishy ..... (5) |
| SPASSKY | Boris -, former world chess champion (7) |
| BORISSPASSKY | The oldest living former world chess champion |
| ALEKHINE | Born in 1892, the fourth pre-FIDE world chess champion (8) |
| DEEPBLUE | IBM supercomputer that played a match with world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997 |
| ANATOLYKARPOV | The undisputed World Chess Champion 1975?85 and FIDE World Chess Champion 1993?99 |
| CARLSEN | Norwegian chess grandmaster who retained the title of World Chess Champion on his birthday in November this year (7) |
| DEEP | And 5 IBM supercomputer that played a match with world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997 (4,4) |
| BLUE | IBM supercomputer that played a match with world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997 (4,4) |
| BOTVINNIK | Mikhail ********* , chess grandmaster who was the sixth World Chess Champion (9) |
| ANATOLY | Ten-year World Chess Champion whose streak was ended by fellow Russian Garry Kasparov in 1985 (7,6) |
| EUWE | '30s world chess champion Max |
| GARRY | Youngest world chess champion in history, Russian ... Kasparov |
| FISCHER | World chess champion from 1972 until 1975 (7) |
