| 100% | KARPOV | 6 | Chess champion after Fischer |
| 50% | BOBBY | 5 | ___ Fischer, chess prodigy who was an American chess grandmaster and a world champion |
| 47% | TAL | 3 | Chess champion Mikhail |
| 47% | ANAND | 5 | Chess champion Viswanathan |
| 47% | FISCHER | 7 | Chess champion bobby |
| 46% | TAL | 3 | Chess champion of 1960 |
| 45% | TAL | 3 | Chess champion of 1960-61 |
| 44% | TAL | 3 | 1960 chess champion |
| 44% | TAL | 3 | Chess champion of the early 1960s |
| 43% | TAL | 3 | 1960 chess champion Mikhail |
| 43% | TAL | 3 | 1960s chess champion Mikhail |
| 43% | TAL | 3 | Former chess champion Mikhail |
| 43% | KARPOV | 6 | 1970s-'90s chess champion |
| 43% | SPASSKY | 7 | Russian chess champion Boris |
| 42% | BOBBY | 5 | Chess grandmaster Fischer |
| 42% | JOSE | 4 | 1920's chess champion Capablanca |
| 42% | TAL | 3 | 1960-61 world chess champion |
| 42% | TAL | 3 | 1960s world chess champion Mikhail ___ |
| 42% | EUWE | 4 | 1930s world chess champion Max |
| 42% | TAL | 3 | Former world chess champion Mikhail |
| 42% | KARPOV | 6 | World Chess champion, 1975-85 |
| 42% | TAL | 3 | Former world chess champion Mikhail ___ |
| 41% | TAL | 3 | Youngest world chess champion before Kasparov |
| 41% | ANAND | 5 | Vishy __, World Chess Champion before Carlsen |
| 41% | TAL | 3 | Former world chess champion from Russia |
| 41% | SPASSKY | 7 | Former Russian world chess champion: Boris __ |
| 41% | TAL | 3 | Mikhail —, 1960-61 world chess champion |
| 41% | DINGLIREN | 9 | Became World Chess Champion in 2023 |
| 41% | BORIS | 5 | World chess champion from 1969-72 |