Egor Chukaev (russian: Егор Сергеевич Чукаев; lt, Jegor Čiukajevas; 6 May 1917 – 1978) was a Lithuanian

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

player who won

Lithuanian Chess Championship The first unofficial Lithuanian Chess Championship was held in Kaunas (Temporary capital of Lithuania) in 1921. The Champion's title was granted after victorious or drawn match between previous champion and challenger, mostly a winner of Championshi ...

(1971).

Biography

Chukaev emigrated to Lithuania after

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

. He lived in

Kaunas Kaunas (; ; also see other names) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the largest city and the centre of a county in the Duchy of Trakai ...

. Chukaev was awarded the Master of Sports of the USSR in Chess (1961). He won the

in 1971 and also shared 1st—2nd place three times: in 1953 and 1955 (with Ratmir Kholmov), and 1973 (with

Algimantas Butnorius Algimantas Butnorius (20 February 1946 – 30 October 2017) was a Lithuanian chess grandmaster and world seniors champion in 2007. From 2014 he represented Monaco. Chess career He won the Lithuanian Chess Championship on ten occasions: in 1967 ...

). Also he was silver medalist of the Lithuanian Chess Championship: 1948, 1952, 1956, 1958, and 1974, and bronze medalist in 1954, 1963. Chukaev was a multiple participant in the USSR Team Chess Championships (1955, 1958) and the

Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR The Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR (russian: Спартакиада народов СССР, Spartakiada narodov SSSR) was a mass multi-sport event in the Soviet Union which lasted from 1956–1991. The competition was a descendant of the in ...

Team Chess Tournaments (1959, 1963, 1975).OlimpBase :: Soviet Team Chess Championship :: Jegor Čiukajevas
/ref> His wife, Klavdiya Chukaeva (1925 — ?), was also a chess player who won the Lithuanian Women's Chess Championships four times.

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* * 1917 births 1978 deaths Lithuanian chess players Soviet chess players {{Lithuania-chess-bio-stub