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Check (chess)
Check (chess): the state in which a king is attacked by an enemy piece, per FIDE Law 3.9. Answered by moving, blocking, or capturing; unanswerable check is checkmate, notation +.
Checkers
Checkers, also called draughts, is a two-player board game in which players move and capture discs by jumping; American checkers was solved in 2007 as a draw.
Checkmate
Checkmate (Persian shah mat) is the chess position where a king is in check with no legal escape by capture, block, or king move; it wins the game instantly, unlike stalemate, which is a draw.
Checkmate pattern
Checkmate pattern: recurring chess piece arrangements that trap the king, such as the back-rank, smothered, Anastasia's, and two-rook mates; studied via network science on millions of Lichess games and drilled through themed puzzle training.
Ched Evans
Ched Evans (Chedwyn Michael Evans), born 1988, is a Welsh professional footballer, a striker who played for Manchester City and Sheffield United among other English clubs.
Cheerleader Melissa
Cheerleader Melissa (Melissa Marie Anderson, born 1982), also Raisha Saeed, Alissa Flash, and Mariposa, is an American professional wrestler, two-time SHIMMER Champion, PWI Female 50 No. 1 in 2013, and 2023 Indie Hall of Fame inductee.
Cheerleading
Cheerleading, or cheer, is a team activity of stunts, tumbling, and routines, begun at the University of Minnesota in 1898. IOC-recognized via the ICU in 2021; low injury rate but high severity; not an NCAA sport.
Cheick Kongo
Cheick Kongo is a French heavyweight mixed martial artist who fought in the UFC from 2006 to 2013 and later Bellator, where he won eight straight.
Cheick Sallah Cisse
Cheick Sallah Cissé (born 1993, Bouaké) is an Ivorian taekwondo athlete, Rio 2016 Olympic welterweight champion (Côte d'Ivoire's first Olympic gold), 2023 world champion at +87 kg, Paris 2024 bronze medalist, retired October 2026.
Cheick Tioté
Cheick Tioté (1986-2017), Ivorian defensive midfielder; 150+ Newcastle United appearances, 52 Ivory Coast caps, 2015 Africa Cup of Nations winner; died aged 30 collapsing in training with Beijing Enterprises in China.
Cheikhou Kouyaté
Cheikhou Kouyaté (born 1989, Dakar) is a retired Senegalese defensive midfielder; Anderlecht, West Ham, Crystal Palace, Nottingham Forest, Amed SK; 92 Senegal caps, AFCON 2021 winner; retired 25 May 2026.
Chelsea F.C.
Chelsea F.C., founded 10 March 1905, is a west London Premier League club at Stamford Bridge (capacity 40,341). Two-time Champions League winner (2011/12, 2020/21); owned by Clearlake Capital since 2022 after the Abramovich sale.
Chelsea F.C. Women
Chelsea F.C. Women, Chelsea FC's women's team in the Women's Super League, founded 1992, WSL founder member 2011 with eight league titles, 2021 Champions League finalists, and Europe's second-highest women's club revenue at €25.4m.
Chelsea F.C.–Liverpool F.C. rivalry
Chelsea–Liverpool rivalry: an English football feud ignited from 2005 by Champions League semi-finals, the Mourinho–Benítez feud, cup finals at Wembley, and contrasting club cultures and histories.
Chelsea Gray
Chelsea Gray (Chelsea Nichelle Gray), "Point Gawd," American WNBA guard (Las Vegas Aces) born 1992 in Hayward, California; Duke alum, 4x WNBA champion, 2022 Finals MVP, and two-time Olympic gold medalist (Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024).
Chelsea Green
Chelsea Green, Canadian professional wrestler from Victoria, British Columbia, in WWE; former TNA Knockouts Champion as Laurel Van Ness, first WWE Women's United States Champion, and WWE Women's Champion after SummerSlam 2026.
Chelsea Headhunters
Chelsea Headhunters, hooligan firm of Chelsea F.C., London; emerged from the Shed End Shed Boys by the mid-1980s, known for military-like structure, racism, and Combat 18 far-right links.
Chelsea Hodges
Chelsea Hodges, Australian breaststroke swimmer born 2001, Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medallist in the 4x100m medley relay, 2022 Commonwealth Games gold and double bronze, short course 4x50m medley relay world record holder, retired May 2024.
Chelsea rent boy
Chelsea rent boy: homophobic football chant aimed at Chelsea FC players and fans, rooted in 1960s Earl's Court slang for a male prostitute; CPS hate crime since 2022, FA chargeable offence since 2023.
Cheltenham Festival
Cheltenham Festival, the four-day National Hunt jump racing meeting each March at Prestbury Park, Gloucestershire; 28 races including the Gold Cup (first run 1924) and Champion Hurdle (1927); over 200,000 attendees and £274 million economic impact (2022).
Cheltenham Gold Cup
Cheltenham Gold Cup: Grade 1 weight-for-age steeplechase at Cheltenham, first run 12 March 1924, won by Red Splash; also a 1819 Cleeve Hill flat race. Run 3m2½f, 22 fences, New Course; Golden Miller won five straight 1932-36.
Cheltenham Town F.C.
Cheltenham Town F.C., the Robins, an English football club founded 1887 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, playing at Whaddon Road (EV Charger Points Stadium, 7,066 capacity); League Two members, League Two champions 2020-21, owned by Mike Garlick with the Robins Trust holding about 15%.
Chema Andrés
Chema Andrés (José María Andrés Baixauli, born 2005, Valencia) is a Spanish defensive midfielder, ex-Real Madrid academy, who played for VfB Stuttgart and joined Brighton & Hove Albion in 2026; Spain U-19 and U-21 international.
Chemmy Alcott
Chemmy Alcott (Chimene Mary Alcott-Crawford, born 1982, Hove) is a British former alpine ski racer, four-time Winter Olympian 2002-2014, first Briton to win a World Cup run, now BBC Ski Sunday presenter.
Chen Aisen
Chen Aisen (陈艾森), Chinese diver born 1995 in Guangzhou, double 2016 Olympic 10m platform champion (individual and synchronized with Lin Yue), 2020 silver with Cao Yuan, three-time world synchro champion.
Chen Ding
Chen Ding (陈定), born 1992 in Dali, Yunnan, is a Chinese race walker, 2012 Olympic 20 km champion in Olympic record 1:18:46, youngest ever race walk Olympic champion, and 2013 world 20 km titleholder.
Chen Hua
Chen Hua (陈桦, born 1982) is a Chinese former long-distance freestyle swimmer from Hangzhou who set a short-course world record in the 800 m freestyle.
Chen Huijia
Chen Huijia (陈慧佳, born 1990, Wenzhou) is a Chinese breaststroke swimmer who won the 2009 Rome World Championships 4x100 m medley relay in world-record 3:52.19 and took 2010 Asian Games relay gold.
Chen Jing (olympedia 778)
Chen Jing (陈静, born 1968, Wuhan) is a table tennis player, the only Olympian medaling for both China (1988 singles gold) and Chinese Taipei (1996 silver, 2000 bronze).
Chen Long (谌龙)
Chen Long (谌龙), born 1989, Chinese men's singles badminton player; Olympic bronze 2012, gold 2016, silver 2020; world champion 2014 and 2015; retired after 2021, now coaches China juniors.