Egor Chukaev (; ; 6 May 1917 – 1978) was a Lithuanian

chess Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arran ...

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

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. He lived in

Kaunas Kaunas (; ) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius, the fourth largest List of cities in the Baltic states by population, city in the Baltic States and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaun ...

. 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 Ratmir Dmitrievich Kholmov ( Russian: Ратмир Дмитриевич Холмов) (13 May 1925 in Shenkursk – 18 February 2006 in Moscow) was a Russian chess Grandmaster. He won many international tournaments in Eastern Europe during his ...

), 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 Peoples of the USSR (, Spartakiada narodov SSSR; ; ) were mass multi-event competitions in the Soviet Union in 1956–1991, descendants of the 1928 All-Union Spartakiad that took place in Moscow. The competitions were designed t ...

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 Chess players from Kaunas {{Lithuania-chess-bio-stub