After graduating from Kurosawajiri High School of Iwate, Chida started to play for Nippon Steel Kamaishi.
During the 1983 Japan tour of Wales, Chida played as flanker in order to enlarge the third row.
While combining power and speed, he is not a rushing type, but a clever forward that accurately judges pass and dense formation according to circumstances, He was active as a mainstay of Nippon Steel Kamaishi's seventh consecutive victory of the Rugby Japanese Championship and also served as a forward for the contemporaneous rugby Japanese national team.
Currently, he works as sales manager for Nippon Steel Engineering Morioka as well as advisor for club team Blaze Lager from Kitakami.
According to Number (22 January 2010), former prop Jiro Ishiyama, who was a teammate in Kamaishi and in the Japan national team stated "Although Hayashi (Toshiyuki) and Oyagi (Atsushi) are never weak, nevertheless, it was Chida who gave the most power required to the scrum."