Mirotvor Schwartz

CHESS PLAYERS NAMED “C” ON STAMPS

This is a part of my “Chess Players on Stamps” collection. It includes stamps and other philatelic materials depicting chess players whose last names start with “C”.

Samuel Robert Calthrop

(American Chess Congress 1857)

American Chess Congress: 1857 (9-16)

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Monica Calzetta Ruiz

Olympiad: Spain 1992 (41), 1994 (39), 1996 (36), 2000 (25), 2002 (27), 2004 (43), 2006 (28), 2008 (23), 2010 (39), 2012 (32), 2016 (45), 2018 (13) Interzonal Tournament: 1995 (39) European Team Championship: Spain 1997 (18), 1999 (9), 2001 (14), 2003 (21), 2005 (21), 2007 (14), 2009 (16), 2011 (11), 2015 (12), 2017 (6), 2019 (20) World Championship: 2000 (33-61) European Individual Championship: 2002 (51), 2005 (45) Men's International Tournament: Gibraltar 2010 (63-92), 2011 (72) FIDE Online Olympiad: Spain 2020 (17-20)

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Jose Raul Capablanca

(Match vs Juan Corzo 1901)

(San Sebastian International Tournament 1911)

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(St Petersburg International Tournament 1914)

(Simultaneous Exhibition 1921)

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(World Championship 1921)

(Moscow International Tournament 1925)

(Lake Hopatcong International Tournament 1926)

(New York International Tournament 1927)

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(World Championship 1927)

(Moscow International Tournament 1936)

(Olympiad 1939)

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Match: 1901 (beat Juan Corzo) International Tournament: San Sebastian 1911 (1), St Petersburg 1914 (2), London 1922 (1), New York 1924 (2), Moscow 1925 (3), Lake Hopatcong 1926 (1), New York 1927 (1), Bad Kissingen 1928 (2), Moscow 1936 (1), Nottingham 1936 (1-2), AVRO 1938 (4-7) World Championship: 1921 (beat Emanuel Lasker), 1927 (lost to Alexander Alekhine) Olympiad: Cuba 1939 (11, BB)

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Magnus Carlsen

(Linares International Tournament 2007) (Sao Paulo - Bilbao Masters 2011)

(Wijk aan Zee International Tournament 2009)

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(World Championship 2013)

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(World Championship 2014)

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(World Rapid and Blitz Championship 2015)

(World Championship 2016)

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(World Championship 2018)

(World Blitz Championship 2019)

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World (FIDE) Championship: 2004 (65-124) Olympiad: Norway 2004 (39), 2006 (31), 2008 (21), 2010 (51), 2014 (29), 2016 (5) World Cup: 2005 (10), 2007 (3-4), 2017 (17-32), 2021 (3) International Tournament: Linares 2007 (2-3), Wijk aan Zee 2009 (5), Sao Paulo - Bilbao 2011 (1) Candidates Tournament: 2007 (9-16), 2013 (1) European Team Championship: Norway 2007 (22), 2015 (21) World Championship: 2013 (beat Viswanathan Anand), 2014 (beat Viswanathan Anand), 2016 (beat Sergey Karjakin), 2018 (beat Fabiano Caruana) World Rapid Championship: 2015 (1) World Blitz Championship: 2015 (6), 2019 (1) FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament: 2019 (6)

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Fabiano Caruana

(Candidates Tournament 2016)

(Candidates Tournament 2018)

(World Championship 2018)

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European Team Championship: Italy 2007 (29), 2009 (32), 2011 (11), 2013 (12) Olympiad: Italy 2008 (41), 2010 (21), 2012 (15), 2014 (52), USA 2016 (1), 2018 (2) World Cup: 2009 (9-16), 2011 (17-32), 2013 (5-8), 2015 (9-16), 2017 (17-32), 2021 (33-64) International Tournament: Gibraltar 2011 (5) FIDE Grand Prix: 2012/13 (3), 2014/15 (1) Candidates Tournament: 2016 (2-3), 2018 (1), 2021 (3-4) World Championship: 2018 (lost to Magnus Carlsen) U.S. Championship: 2019 (2-3) FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament: 2019 (2)

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Maia Chiburdanidze

(World Championship 1978)

(World Championship 1984)

(Olympiad 2008)

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Interzonal Tournament: 1976 (2-3), 1993 (3) Candidates Tournament: 1977/78 (1), 1992/93 (3), 1994/95 (2), 1997 (3-4) World Championship: 1978 (beat Nona Gaprindashvili), 1981 (tied Nana Alexandria), 1984 (beat Irina Levitina), 1986 (beat Elena Akhmilovskaya), 1988 (beat Nana Ioseliani), 1991 (lost to Xie Jun), 2000 (17- 32), 2001 (3-4), 2004 (3-4), 2006 (5-8), 2010 (17-32) Olympiad: USSR 1978 (1, BB), 1980 (1, BB), 1982 (1), 1984 (1), 1986 (1), 1988 (2), 1990 (2), Georgia 1992 (1, BP, BB), 1994 (1), 1996 (1), 1998 (3), 2000 (2), 2002 (4), 2004 (4), 2008 (1, BB) World Blitz Championship: 1992 (?) World Rapid Championship: 1992 (3) European Team Championship: Georgia 1997 (1, BP, BB), 2005 (2, BP), 2007 (5) Men's World Team Championship: Georgia (women) 1997 (10) Men's World (FIDE) Championship: 1999 (65-98) European Individual Championship: 2000 (3-4) Rapid Team Match: Europe 2001 (beat Asia) World Team Championship: Georgia 2007 (4), 2009 (4) FIDE Grand Prix: 2009-11 (12)

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Mikhail Chigorin

(Telegraph Match 1890/91)

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World Championship: 1889 (lost to Wilhelm Steinitz), 1892 (lost to Wilhelm Steinitz) American Chess Congress: 1889 (1-2) Match: 1890 (tied Isidor Gunsberg) Telegraph Match: 1890/91 (beat Wilhelm Steinitz) International Tournament: Hastings 1895 (2), St Petersburg 1895/96 (4), Nuremberg 1896 (9-10), Budapest 1896 (1), Berlin 1897 (10), London 1899 (7), Paris 1900 (6), Monte Carlo 1902 (8), Ostend 1905 (13), Barmen 1905 (7-10), Ostend 1906 (21-22), Carlsbad 1907 (16-18) German Chess Congress: 1898 (2-4)

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Viktorija Cmilyte

Olympiad: Lithuania 1996 (17), 1998 (37), 2000 (30, BB), 2004 (13, BB), 2006 (23), 2008 (51), 2012 (44), 2016 (12) World U-14 Championship: 1996 (15) European Team Championship: Lithuania 1997 (7), 1999 (22), 2007 (21), 2013 (8, BB) World Championship: 2000 (9-16), 2004 (5-8), 2006 (3-4), 2008 (17-30), 2010 (9-16), 2012 (17-32), 2015 (9-16) European Individual Championship: 2005 (20) Men's International Tournament: Gibraltar 2006 (24-34), 2010 (21-40), 2011 (44) Men's European Team Championship: Lithuania 2009 (31) Men's Olympiad: Lithuania 2010 (35) FIDE Grand Prix: 2011/12 (7), 2013/14 (18)

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Jorge Cori

(Olympiad 2018)

International Tournament: Gibraltar 2010 (63-92) Olympiad: Peru 2010 (44), 2014 (19), 2016 (10), 2018 (49, BB) World Cup: 2011 (65-126), 2013 (65-127), 2017 (33-64), 2019 (65-128), 2021 (33-64) World U-18 Championship: 2012 (3) FIDE Online Olympiad: Peru 2020 (13-16)

Juan Corzo

(Match vs Jose Raul Capablanca 1901)

Match: 1901 (lost to Jose Raul Capablanca)

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Pia Cramling

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Olympiad: Sweden 1978 (9), 1982 (7), 1984 (15, BB), 1988 (24, BB), 2004 (15), 2008 (38), 2014 (28), 2016 (23) Interzonal Tournament: 1985 (3), 1993 (6) Candidates Tournament: 1986 (4-5), 1994/95 (3), 1997 (8) Men's European Team Championship: Sweden 1989 (14), 1992 (5), 1997 (17) Men's Olympiad: Sweden 1990 (11), 1992 (18), 1996 (11), 2000 (42) Men's International Tournament: Sevilla Open 1992 (8), Pamplona 1996/97 (5-6), Gibraltar 2006 (24-34), 2010 (21-40), 2011 (90) World Championship: 2000 (17-32), 2004 (9-16), 2006 (17-32), 2008 (3-4), 2010 (33-62), 2012 (17-32), 2015 (3-4), 2017 (9-16) European Team Championship: Sweden 2005 (17), 2019 (26) FIDE Grand Prix: 2009-11 (10), 2015/16 (17), 2019-21 (15) World Blitz Championship: 2014 (13) Men's FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament: 2019 (134) FIDE Online Olympiad: Sweden 2020 (46-50) World Cup: 2021 (17-32)

Chess Players on Stamps

Players Named "B" Players Named "D"

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