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Monday, July 2nd, 2012

Sports and Chess


Here is a partial list of sports and those that play chess and a sport.

Badminton
Chess players who play badminton: Sir George Thomas (21 British badminton titles)

Baseball
Baseball players who play chess: Barry Bonds, Jim Bouton, Henry Chadwick (father of baseball), Don Drysdale, Ron Guidry, Roy Halliday, Derek Jeter, Dale Murphy, Hunter Pence

Chess players who played baseball: Jose Capablanca, Jackson Showalter

Basketball
Basketball players who play chess: Danny Ainge, Dick Barnett, Chris Bosh, Kobe Bryant, Maurice Carter, Bill Cartwright, Wilt Chamberlain, Lester Conner, Jason Forte, Elvin Hayes, Larry Johnson, Magic Johnson, Mark Madsen, Jim O’Brien (coach), Bill Robinzine, Steve Smith, Latrell Sprewell, Gary Trent, Bill Walton, Jason Williams, Jay Williams

Billiards
Chess players who play billiards: Jose Capablanca

Bowling
Chess players who bowl: Levon Aronian, Evgeny Bareev, Bobby Fischer, Alexander Grischuk, Peter Leko

Boxing
Boxers who play chess: Shannon Briggs, Frank Bruno, Vitaly Klitschko, Vladimar Klitschko, Lennox Lewis, Manny Pacquiao, Terry Marsh, Adrian Teodorescu, Gene Tunney

Chess players who are boxers: Arnold Denker, Max Euwe, Anna Hahn (kick-boxing)

Cricket
Cricket players who play chess: Andrew Flintoff, Mike Gatting, William Grace

Chess players who play cricket: Peter Svidler

Football (American)

Football players who play chess: Shaun Alexander, LaVar Arrington, Mike Barrow, Jim Brown, Priest Holmes, Curtis Martin, Al Means, Brandon Short, Kellen Winslow

Chess players who play football: Robert Hess

Golf
Golfers who play chess: Severiano Ballesteros, Ben Hogan, Bobby Jones, Phil Mickelson (he spent the morning playing chess the day he won the 2010 Masters Open), Tiger Woods

Chess players who play golf: Jose Capablanca, Emanuel Lasker

Hockey
Hockey players who play chess: Anson Carter, Dominic Hasek, Borje Salming

Martial arts:
Chess players who do martial arts: Josh Waitzkin (Tai Chi)

Rowing
Marnie McBean

Soccer (football)

Soccer players who play chess: Ossie Ardiles, Sol Campbell, Denis Irwin, Lukas Podolski, Charles Watson, Zlatko Zahovic

Chess players who play soccer: Simen Agdestein, Magnus Carlsen, David Howell, Vassily Ivanchuk, Vlastimil Jansa, Garry Kasparov, Peter Leko, Ljubomir Ljubojevic, Topalov

Swimming
Chess players who are swimmers: Larry Christiansen, Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik

Table Tennis
Chess players who play table tennis: Magnus Carlsen, Bobby Fischer, Paul Keres

Tennis
Tennis players who play chess: Boris Becker, Bob Bryan, Mike Bryan, Patrick Cash, Michael Chang, Elena Dementieva, Roger Federer, Ivan Lendl, John McEnroe, Max Mirnyi, Greg Rusedski,

Chess players who play tennis: Elena Akhmilovskaya, Vishy Anand, Walter Browne, Robert Byrne, Jose Capablanca, Magnus Carlsen, Bobby Fischer, Vlastimil Hort, Anatoly Karpov, Lubosh Kavalek, Paul Keres, Vladimir Kramnik, Lajos Portisch, Yasser Seirawan, Boris Spassky, Sir George Thopmas, Bill Wall

Wrestling
Wrestlers who play chess: F.O. Egger, Max Krauser, Kola Kwariani

– Bill Wall

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