He was the US Amateur Champion in 1959, as well as state champion for Virginia in 1942 through 1948 and for Maryland in 1963, 1969 and 1976. He also wrote columns for Chess Life. When he won the title in 1963, his son also took the state's Junior title.
In 1991, Chauvenet won the National Deaf Championship in Austin, Texas. In 1992, at Edinburgh, Scotland, the International Committee of Silent Chess awarded him its Grandmaster title.
Chauvenet represented the US at the World Individual Deaf Championship four times: (1980, 1984 where he won the Silver medal, 1988 where he won the Silver medal and 1992. In addition, he also won three US National Tournaments of the Deaf: 1980, 1983 and 1987.
Besides chess, Chauvenet was an award winning runner. After his retirement, he resumed his college running career with the Montgomery County (Maryland) track club. He was honored in the Washington D.C. area and recognized as a "1,000K Man" when he completed his 100th 10K race (all between the ages of 62-75).
He was the founder of Boston's The Stranger Club, a science fiction club active during the 1940s. He also co-founded the National Fantasy Fan Federation.
It was Chauvenet who coined the terns “fanzine” (in 1940) and “prozine, a term for professionally published magazines containing science fiction stories.
Chauvenet was also a sailor and even built his own Windmill class sailboat and participated in regattas. The Windmill is a recreational sailboat, built predominantly of plywood or fiberglass in the form of a double hull with a foam core, resulting in an unsinkable boat. In addition to other positions he served as editor of the Windmill Class Association newsletter.
Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, he became completely deaf in 1930 at age 10 after suffering cerebro-spinal meningitis. He attended a special school for the deaf before graduating from Belmont Hill Preparatory School in Belmont, Massachusetts and then went on to Harvard, Boston College and the University of Virginia, receiving a Bachelor of Science in biology in 1943 and a Master of Science in chemistry in 1948. 
From 1943-1946 he was employed by the Calco Chemical Company in New Jersey, after which he worked with computers as a civilian employee of the US Department of Defense from 1948 until his retirement.
In the following game he defeated Walter Suesman (1918-1984) who once played in the US Championship in 1938; he finished last (17 players) with a +1 -13 =2. He defeated Isaac Kashdan (!) and drew with George Treysman and George Shainswit. Reshevsky won the tournament a half point ahead of Fine. Suesman, a solid Master, won the 1960 Rhode Island state championship.
Walter B. Suesman–L. Russel Chauvenet0–1D10Ventnor CityVentnor City, NJ USA22.06.1942Stockfish 16
D12: Slav Defense 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.e3 f6 4.c3 f5 5.f3 e6 6.b3 c7 7.d2 b6 An inferior continuation. Correct is 7...Nbd7 8.c1 The threat
is 9.cxd5 exd5 10.Nxd5 sso now the Q has to move to an ineffective square. b7 9.a4 Rather pointless. Simply 9.Nh4 gaining the two Bs was satisfactory. d6 10.e2 Here or next move he should still try Nh4 0-0 11.0-0 a6 12.e5 dxc4 This should worj out to be in white's favor. 12...b5 13.b3 xe5 14.dxe5 fd7 15.cxd5 cxd5 keeps things even. 13.xc4± c7 14.b3 bd7
White now has the more active position. 15.f4 15.a5 Interestiong, but
tricky! xh2+ 16.xh2 c7+ 17.g1 bxa5 White should be OK because of all
black's weak Ps. 15...b5 16.e5 xe5 Taking with B was a little more
precise because his Ns would do better in the closed position. 17.fxe5
By capturing with the f-Pawn white hopes to use the open f-file to cocnduct a
K-side attack. e4 18.e1 Too passive. 18.xe4 xe4 19.d3 xd3 20.xd3 and there doesn't seem to be any way for white to take advantage of black's
backward c-Pawn. a5 21.e4 a6 22.c5 c8 23.fc1 d8 18...b6 19.f3
After this the position is only equal, so white should have played 19.Nxe4 and
he would have had slightly the better of it. 19.xe4 xe4 20.b4 fd8 21.d3 c5 22.xc5 xc5 23.xe4 xe4 24.f4 b7 and either way white takes on
c5 he has a very slight advantage. 19...g5 20.e2 c5 Black
commences his counterplay. 21.h4 He simply cannot afford to ignore blak's
Q-side activity. 21.dxc5 and white has nothing to worry about. xc5 22.xb5 b6 22...axb5 23.xc5 and white has the advantage. 23.d4 xd4 24.exd4 xd4+ 25.f2 xe5 with an equal position. 21...e4 21...cxd4
This takes advantage of white's slip. 22.exd4 xd4+ 23.h1 e4 24.xe4 xe4 25.xg5 xe2 26.e7 26.fe1 xb2 27.xb2 xb2 with a won ending. 26...fc8 Black has a active and theefore promising position. 22.xe4 xe4 23.f4 After this white quickly finds himself in hot water. 23.dxc5
Neutralizes black's Q-side play and after xc5 24.xc5 xh4 neither side
can demonstrate an advantage. 25.c3 23...c4 Of course the Q cannot
retreat. 23...b7 24.f3 a7 25.xa8 24.c3 24.xe4 cxb3 25.f4 bxa2 26.a1 b1 is not at all good for white. 24...a5 A well
played followup to his last move as his Q still cannot retreat. 25.xe4 xc3 26.xc3 xe4 27.f3 Trading off his good B only makes things worse, but in
the long run black would still be winning after, say, 27.Be7 xf3 28.gxf3
a7 White's mass of center Ps will prove no match for the
exchange. 29.f2 c8 30.e4 b4 31.c2 ac7 32.d5 d7 33.d6 f6 Excellent!
Black undermines white’s P’s and makes inroads for his R’s. 34.g3 34.exf6 gxf6 35.xf6 xd6 and black is in full control. 34...c5 35.f4 f7 36.e3 c3 37.bxc3? 37.d4 is also insufficient, but it would hold out
longer. c8 38.bxc3 xc3 39.xc3 bxc3 40.xc3 fxe5 41.fxe5 b7 wins the
endin. For example... 42.f4 b1 43.g5 e8 44.h4 a1 45.b3 d7 46.e7 e1 47.b4 xe4+ 48.a5 c6 49.a3 e3 50.d7 xd7 51.f8 c6 52.xa6 g6 53.a5 xe5+ 54.b4 e4+ 55.b3 xh4 37...xc3+ 38.xc3 bxc3 39.d3 b7 40.xc3 This position is very similar to the one reached after move 40 in
the the note to move 37. e8 41.c4 White resigned. His resignation is
possibly a little premature, but in the long run his position is lost. 41.c4 fxe5 42.f5 As has been seen, fxe5 leads nowhere. exf5 43.exf5 d7 44.xe5 b5 45.d4 g6 46.fxg6 hxg6 47.g3 a5 Black wins. One example... 48.c4 xa2 49.b3 g2 50.e5 e2 51.f4 f2 52.e5 f5 53.d4 White cannot
allow the sacrifice of th exchange because the K+P ending is lost. 53.g3 f3+ 54.a4 xg3 55.hxg3 xd6 53...h5 54.g1 xd6 55.b4 h4+ 56.b3 56.a5 c6 57.a7 57.xa6 a4# 57...xh2 56...c6 57.a3 g5 58.b3 g4 59.c3 d5 60.b3 e4 61.b4 h5 62.b3 f3 63.a7 xh2 and wins 0–1
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