Valery Chekhov
Valery Alexandrovich Chekhov is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Junior Chess Champion. In the mid-1980s, Chekhov and his wife were living in DDR and delivering chess training to the DDR-based Soviet military personnel.
He was awarded the International Master title in 1975 and became a Grandmaster in 1984. He was first or tied for first at Lvov 1983, Irkutsk 1983, Barcelona 1984, Dresden 1985, and the Berlin Open 1986.