| CAPABLANCA | Jose Raul -, 1921-27 World Chess Championship title holder (10) |
| THEYANKEES | Team with a record 27 World Series titles |
| FISCHER | World Chess Championship title-holder from 1972-75 (5,7) |
| BOBBY | World Chess Championship title-holder from 1972-75 (5,7) |
| PETROSIAN | Tigran ?, 1963-69 World Chess Championship title holder |
| KARPOV | Anatoly ?, 1993-99 FIDE World Chess Championship title holder |
| NIGELSHORT | English chess player who challenged Garry Kasparov for the World Chess Championship in 1993 |
| SCHUMACHER | Surname of the German former racing driver with seven World Drivers' Championship titles (10) |
| STEVEDAVIS | English snooker player who won six World Championship titles during the 1980s (5,5) |
| CHRISADAMS | Former England cricketer who captained Sussex to the 2003, 2006 and 2007 County Championship titles |
| LYON | French city that co-hosted the 1990 World Chess Championship |
| ICEL | Where Fischer played Spassky for the World Chess Championship (abbr.) |
| KASPAROV | Garry ___, 1985 winner of the World Chess Championship (8) |
| BOTVINNIK | Mikhail ___, winner of the World Chess Championship from 1948-57 (9) |
| EUWE | Max ___, winner of the World Chess Championship from 1935-37 (4) |
| ICELAND | Site for the 1972 Fischer-Spassky World Chess Championship |
| KRAMKIK | Vladimir, winner of the 2006 FIDE World Chess Championship (7) |
| KRAMNIK | Vladimir ___, winner of the 2006 FIDE World Chess Championship (7) |
| ANAND | Viswanathan ?, 2007-13 World Chess Championship winner (5) |
| SPASSKY | Russian who lost to Fischer in the 1972 World Chess Championship |
