Sports and Chess

 

Badminton

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

 

Baseball

Baseball players who play chess: Barry Bonds, Don Drysdale, Ron Guidry, Derek Jeter, Dale Murphy, Hunter Pence

 

Chess players who play baseball: Jackson Showalter

 

Basketball

Basketball players who play chess: Danny Ainge, Dick Barnett, Kobe Bryant, Maurice Carter, Bill Cartwright, Wilt Chamberlain, Jason Forte, Larry Johnson, Magic Johnson, Mark Madsen, Bill Robinzine, Steve Smith, Latrell Sprewell, Gary Trent, Bill Walton, Jason Williams, Jay Williams

 

Bowling

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

 

Boxing

Boxers who play chess: Shannon Briggs, Frank Bruno, Vitaly Klitschko, Vladimar Klitschko, Lennox Lewis, Terry Marsh, 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

 

Football

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, Tiger Woods

 

Chess players who ply golf: Jose Capablanca, Emanuel Lasker

 

Hockey

Hockey players who play chess: Anson Carter, Dominic Haske

 

Martial arts:

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

 

Soccer

Soccer players who play chess: Ossie Ardiles, Lukas Podolski, Zlatko Zahovic

 

Chess players who play soccer: Jacob Aagaard, Magnus Carlsen, David Howell, Vassily Ivanchuk, Garry Kasparov, Topalov

 

Swimming

Chess players who are swimmers: Larry Christiansen, Garry Kasparov

 

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, Bobby Fischer, Vlastimil Hort, Anatoly Karpov, Lubosh Kavalek, Paul Keres, Lajos Portisch, Yasser Seirawan, Boris Spassky, Sir George Thopmas, Bill Wall

 

Wrestling

Wrestlers who play chess: Kola Kwariani