chess player - someone who plays the game of chess

Bobby Fischer, Robert James Fischer, Fischer - United States chess master; world champion from 1972 to 1975 (born in 1943)

Anatoli Karpov, Anatoli Yevgenevich Karpov, Karpov - Russian chess master who was world champion from 1975 until 1985 when he was defeated by Gary Kasparov (born in 1951)

Gary Kasparov, Gary Weinstein, Kasparov - Azerbaijani chess master who became world champion in 1985 by defeating Anatoli Karpov (born in 1963)

Korchnoi, Viktor Korchnoi, Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi - Russian chess master (born in 1931)

Boris Spassky, Boris Vasilevich Spassky, Spassky - Russian chess master who moved to Paris; world champion from 1969 to 1972 (born in 1937)