| Tennis champion Martina |
| Midwest university with 23 team wrestling championships |
| Five-time world champion figure skater Carol |
| Goya's duchess |
| Boxing champion Laila |
| Infamous "Jeopardy!" champion Arthur |
| A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing" comedian Philips |
| Final chess stage |
| Chess defeats |
| American world heavyweight champion boxer (and grill promoter), b. 1949 |
| One-time tennis champion. |
| Four-time Indianapolis 500 champion |
| Girl who meets the Duchess |
| Chess problems having two solutions |
| Finale of a 151-move chess game |
| American-born chess master who was the World Champion from 1972 to 1975: 2 wds. |
| Chess champion Capablanca |
| Former world heavyweight boxing champion who endorsed a line in Russell Hobbs grills |
| A.L. home-run champion: 1984 |
| Seven-time American champion of the Tour de France who most recently won in 2005 ... but whose titles were revoked: 2 wds. |
| Action in a chess match |
| Chess pieces, informally |
| Actress who was the voice of Duchess in "The Aristocats |
| He defeated Connors for the 1975 Wimbledon championship |
| Impossible chess ending with a king and knight versus a lone king |
| Duchess in "Henry VI, Part II |
| Duchess of ___ (Goya model) |
| Skater Ohno who was once also a state swimming champion |
| Activist-chess star Kasparov |
| A Wimbledon champion: 1981 |