| BOTVINNIK | Mikhail, world chess champion 1948-57 (9) |
| CAPTAINCY | Position George Young held from 1948-57 (9) |
| PETROSIAN | Tigran, world chess champion between 1963 and 1969 (9) |
| REYKJAVIK | In 1972, Boris Spassky lost his world chess champion's crown to Bobby Fischer in this city |
| LOUIS | P .M. 1948-57: ___ St. Laurent |
| ANATOLYKARPOV | The undisputed World Chess Champion 1975?85 and FIDE World Chess Champion 1993?99 |
| LATVIANS | Former world chess champion Mikhail Tal, and others |
| TAL | World chess champion Mikhail |
| ALEKHINE | Alexander ---, Franco-Russian world chess champion during the Second World War |
| KASPAROV | Garry ---, Russian chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion (8) |
| CARLSEN | Norwegian chess grandmaster who retained the title of World Chess Champion on his birthday in November this year (7) |
| SPASSKY | Tenth official World Chess Champion (1969-72), fictionalised as Anatoly Sergievsky in 1986 Andersson, Ulvaeus and Rice musical Chess (5,7) |
| KARPOV | Anatoly, Soviet-born chess grandmaster who was World Chess Champion from 1975 to 1985 (6) |
| EUWE | '30s world chess champion Max |
| EMANUEL | Former World Chess Champion ___ Lasker |
| GARRY | Youngest world chess champion in history, Russian ... Kasparov |
| ANAND | Vishy ___, World Chess Champion before Carlsen |
| FISCHER | World chess champion from 1972 until 1975 (7) |
| BORISSPASSKY | The oldest living former world chess champion |
| BORIS | World chess champion from 1969-72 (5,7) |
