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- Valery Chekhov (born 1955)
- Vitaly Chekhover (1908–1965)
- Alexander Cherepkov (born 1920)
- Irving Chernev (1900–1981)
- Alexander Chernin (born 1960)
- Konstantin Chernyshov (born 1967)
- Maia Chiburdanidze (born 1961)
- Mikhail Chigorin (1850–1908)
- Vladimir Chuchelov (born 1969)
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