| BOTVINNIK | Mikhail ********* , chess grandmaster who was the sixth World Chess Champion (9) |
| KARPOV | Anatoly ___, Russian chess grandmaster who was the 12th official world champion from 1975 to 1985 (6) |
| RONNIEOSULLIVAN | Snooker player who claimed his sixth World Championship in 2020 |
| FISCHER | Grandmaster who was the only US-born player to become World Chess Champion, Bobby ... |
| PETROSIAN | Tigran ___, chess grandmaster who was World Champion from 1963 to 1969 |
| SPASSKY | Boris -; Russian chess grandmaster who was world champion from 1969-72 (7) |
| CARLSEN | Norwegian chess grandmaster who retained the title of World Chess Champion on his birthday in November this year (7) |
| LIREN | Chess grandmaster who became the first Chinese world champion on April 30 2023 (4,5) |
| DING | Chess grandmaster who became the first Chinese world champion on April 30 2023 (4,5) |
| WONDERBOY | ____: How Magnus Carlsen Became the Youngest Chess Grandmaster in the World - 2007 book title |
| MAGNUSCARLSEN | Norwegian chess grandmaster who successfully defended his world title in December 2021 (6,7) |
| GUKESHDOMMARAJU | Grandmaster who became the youngest-ever World Chess Champion in December 2024 |
| BOBBYFISCHER | American Grandmaster who beat Boris Spassky in Reykjavik in 1972 to become the 11th World Chess Champion |
| ANAND | Viswanathan who was the first chess grandmaster from India |
| KASPAROV | Garry ---, Russian chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion (8) |
| WORLD | Bobby Fischer Against The ___ documentary feature film on the chess Grandmaster |
| ESTONIA | Bordered to the south by Latvia, the birth country of former chess grandmaster Paul Keres and Skype co-developer Jaan Tallinn (7) |
| NIGELSHORT | British chess grandmaster born in 1965 and vicepresident of FIDE, chess's world governing body (5,5) |
| KORCHNOI | Russian chess grandmaster dubbed Viktor the Terrible (8) |
| LUZHIN | The ___ Defence romantic film about a chess grandmaster starring John Turturro |
