Egor Chukaev

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Egor Chukaev (6 May 1917 – 1978) was a chess player who moved from the Soviet Union to Lithuania after World War II and lived in Kaunas. He earned the title Master of Sports of the USSR in Chess in 1961. Chukaev won the Lithuanian Chess Championship in 1971 and shared first place in 1953 and 1955 (with Ratmir Kholmov) and in 1973 (with Algimantas Butnorius). He also won silver medals in 1948, 1952, 1956, 1958 and 1974, and bronze medals in 1954 and 1963 at the Lithuanian Championship. He played for Soviet teams in the USSR Team Chess Championships (1955, 1958) and in the Spartakiads (1959, 1963, 1975). His wife, Klavdiya Chukaeva (born 1925), was a chess player who won the Lithuanian Women's Championship four times.