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Chess World Cup 2021
2021 FIDE World Cup, Sochi knockout chess tournament won by Jan-Krzysztof Duda, who beat Karjakin 1.5-0.5 in the final and Carlsen in the semifinal; Kosteniuk won the first Women's World Cup.
Chess World Cup 2023
FIDE World Cup 2023, tenth edition, Baku, Azerbaijan, July-August 2023; 206-player Open and 103-player Women's knockout; Carlsen beat Praggnanandhaa for his first title; Goryachkina won the Women's Cup; top three qualified for Candidates 2024.
Chess World Cup 2025
FIDE World Cup 2025: 206-player knockout in Goa, India, 30 October–27 November 2025. Won by 19-year-old Uzbek GM Javokhir Sindarov, youngest ever champion, beating Wei Yi in tiebreaks; top three qualified for the 2026 Candidates.
Chess.com
Chess.com: the world's largest online chess platform, founded 2005 by Erik Allebest and Jay Severson, relaunched 2007; freemium play, puzzles, lessons, fair-play detection; ~250 million registered users.
Chessboard
A chessboard is the square playing surface for chess, consisting of 64 alternately light and dark squares in an 8 × 8 grid with coordinate notation.
Chester Bowman
Chester A. "Chet" Bowman (1901-1936), American sprinter from West Long Branch, NJ; fourth in the 100 m at the 1924 Paris Olympics, 9.6 100-yard world-record equaler, and Newark AC relay world record holder.
Chester F.C.
Chester F.C., also known as Chester Football Club, is a supporter-owned football club in Chester, England, formed by fans in 2010 after Chester City's liquidation, playing at the Deva Stadium.
Chesterfield F.C.
Chesterfield F.C., the Spireites, a Derbyshire football club founded in 1866, playing at the 10,200-capacity SMH Group Stadium since 2010; famous for the 1997 FA Cup 'goal that never was' and 2023-24 National League title.
Chet Holmgren
Chet Holmgren, Oklahoma City Thunder center-forward, Gonzaga one-and-done drafted second overall in 2022; 7'1" rim-protecting stretch big, 2025 NBA champion, five-year max extension near $240 million.
Chet Jastremski
Chet Jastremski (1941–2014) was an American breaststroke swimmer from Toledo, Ohio who set nine world records and won 200-meter breaststroke bronze at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
Chetan Sharma (चेतन शर्मा)
Chetan Sharma (चेतन शर्मा), born 1966, Indian fast bowler; first World Cup hat-trick (1987) and first Indian ten-wicket Test haul in England (1986); later BCCI chief selector 2020-2023, resigning after a sting operation.
Cheteshwar Pujara
Cheteshwar Pujara, India's Test number 3 from 2010 to 2023, known as India's modern-day wall. Played 103 Tests, 7,195 runs at 43.60, 19 centuries; retired from all Indian cricket on 24 August 2025.
Cheveyo Balentien
Cheveyo (Dayshaun) Balentien, born 2006 in Almere, is a Dutch-born winger and forward for AC Milan and Milan Futuro; ADO Den Haag youth product, Serie A debut August 2025, Surinamese-Dutch.
Cheveyo Tsawa
Cheveyo Tsawa (born 2006) is a Swiss central midfielder who came through FC Zürich, broke into its first team at 17, and joined Club Brugge in July 2026; he also plays for Switzerland's U21 team.
Cheyenne Woods
Cheyenne Woods, American professional golfer and Golf Channel broadcaster, niece of Tiger Woods; 2014 Volvik RACV Ladies Masters winner, 2011 ACC individual champion at Wake Forest, and LPGA Tour player 2016-2021.
Chi Cheng
Chi Cheng (紀政, born 1944 in Hsinchu, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese sprinter and hurdler who won bronze in the 80 meter hurdles at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.
Chi Lieh Yung
Chi Lieh Yung (戚烈雲), born 1934, Hong Kong-born Chinese breaststroke swimmer who set the men's 100 m breaststroke world record at 1:11.6 on May 1, 1957, the first FINA-recognized Chinese swimming world record; ISHOF Pioneer Swimmer 2013.
Chi-Chi Rodríguez
Juan Antonio "Chi Chi" Rodríguez (1935–2024), Puerto Rican golfer; 8 PGA Tour wins, 22 senior titles, 1992 World Golf Hall of Fame, Bob Jones Award 1989, famous sword dance, Youth Foundation founder.
Chiaka Ogbogu
Chiaka Sylvia Ogbogu (born 1995, Newark, New Jersey) is an American middle blocker, Texas standout, Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold and Paris 2024 silver medalist, and Best Middle Blocker at Paris 2024.
Chiana wa Kunja
Chiana wa Kunja (Chiana), a four-row mancala-style sowing game of the Nyanja people of East Africa, played by children; counters move as one grouped series, and capturing all enemy counters wins.
Chiara Bättig
Chiara Bättig (born 2010) is a Swiss racing driver, Red Bull Junior Team member and three-time Swiss karting champion; in 2026 she became the first F1 Academy Wild Card driver to take pole and a podium at Silverstone.
Chiara Betti
Chiara Betti (born 2002, Trento) is an Italian short track speed skater of Fiamme Gialle; at Milano Cortina 2026 she won Olympic gold in the mixed relay and silver in the women's relay, with world and European relay medals.
Chiara Cainero
Chiara Cainero, Italian skeet shooter born 1978 in Udine; Olympic gold Beijing 2008, silver Rio 2016, five Olympics, six European titles, Carabinieri athlete.
Chiara Consonni
Chiara Consonni (born 1999, Ponte San Pietro, Italy) is an Italian road and track cyclist; Olympic Madison gold medalist at Paris 2024 with Vittoria Guazzini, world team pursuit champion 2022, Canyon-SRAM sprinter, sister of Simone Consonni.
Chiara Leone
Chiara Leone (born 1998) is a Swiss rifle shooter from Rheinfelden, Aargau, who won Olympic gold in women's 50 m rifle three positions at Paris 2024, plus world (Baku 2023) and European (Osijek 2024) titles.
Chibi-Robo!
Chibi-Robo! (ちびロボ！), aka Plug Into Adventure!, is Skip Ltd./Nintendo's 2005-2006 GameCube adventure about a 4-inch robot helping the Sanderson family, with battery, happy points, and utilibot mechanics.
Chibuike Nwaiwu
Chibuike Godfrey Nwaiwu is a Nigerian footballer, born in 2003 in Port Harcourt, who plays as a center-back for Turkish club Trabzonspor and the Nigeria national team.
Chica Beach
Chica Beach is a name shared by several beaches: Boca Chica Beach (also mapped as Chica Beach) at the southern tip of Texas near SpaceX Starbase, and small Playa Chica beaches in Cádiz, Murcia, Tenerife, and Gran Canaria, Spain.
Chicago Bears
Chicago Bears, NFL charter franchise founded 1920 as the Decatur Staleys, renamed Chicago Bears in 1922; nine championships including Super Bowl XX, home Soldier Field since 1971, owned by the Halas-McCaskey family.
Chicago Bears Stadium
Chicago Bears Stadium: the NFL team's quest to replace Soldier Field, its home since 1971, with a new fixed-roof venue; sites pursued in Arlington Heights, on Chicago's lakefront, and in Hammond, Indiana, where the board advanced the project in June 2026.