Vidmantas Mališauskas
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Vidmantas Mališauskas is a Lithuania
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Grandmaster (1993).
on six occasions: in 1987, 1989, 1990, 1998 (shared with Šarūnas Šulskis
), 2003 and 2006. Played for Lithuania in the Chess Olympiads of 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2006 and in the European Team Chess Championships of 1992 and 2007. Other notable results include 2nd (behind Maxim Matlakov) in the Gipslis
Memorial 2009 and 2nd (behind Vadim Shishkin) in the Lubawka Gate Open 2009.
, at his peak in May 1993 Mališauskas's play was equivalent to a rating of 2666, and he was ranked number 49 in the world. His best single performance was at POL-chT Bydgoszcz, 1990, where he scored 6 of 6 possible points (100%) against 2472-rated opposition, for a performance rating of 2671.
In the November 2009 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2483, making him Lithuania's number six.
Lithuania
Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...
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Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
Grandmaster (1993).
Chess career
He won the Lithuanian Chess ChampionshipLithuanian Chess Championship
First unofficial Lithuanian championship was held in Kaunas in 1921. The Champion's title was granted after victorious or drawn match between previous champion and challenger, mostly a winner of Championship of Kaunas in the period from 1922 to World War II. The first official Lithuanian...
on six occasions: in 1987, 1989, 1990, 1998 (shared with Šarūnas Šulskis
Šarūnas Šulskis
Šarūnas Šulskis is a Lithuanian chess Grandmaster .-Chess career:He won the Lithuanian Chess Championship on five occasions: in 1991, 1994, 1998 , 2007 and 2009...
), 2003 and 2006. Played for Lithuania in the Chess Olympiads of 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2006 and in the European Team Chess Championships of 1992 and 2007. Other notable results include 2nd (behind Maxim Matlakov) in the Gipslis
Aivars Gipslis
Aivars Gipslis was a Latvian chess FIDE Grandmaster and also an ICCF Grandmaster, and a chess writer.-History:...
Memorial 2009 and 2nd (behind Vadim Shishkin) in the Lubawka Gate Open 2009.
Chess strength
According to ChessmetricsChessmetrics
Chessmetrics is a system for rating chess players devised by Jeff Sonas. It is intended as an improvement over the Elo rating system.-Implementation:...
, at his peak in May 1993 Mališauskas's play was equivalent to a rating of 2666, and he was ranked number 49 in the world. His best single performance was at POL-chT Bydgoszcz, 1990, where he scored 6 of 6 possible points (100%) against 2472-rated opposition, for a performance rating of 2671.
In the November 2009 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2483, making him Lithuania's number six.
Notable games
- Vidmantas Malisauskas vs Viktor Kupreichik, Warsaw 1990, Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation (B94), 1-0
- Vidmantas Malisauskas vs Zigurd Lanka, Vilnius 1993, Sicilian Defense: Richter-Rauzer (B62), 1-0
- Vidmantas Malisauskas vs Alexey Shirov, It (cat.13) (active) 1996, Sicilian Defense: Richter-Rauzer (B62), 1-0
- Joel Benjamin vs Vidmantas Malisauskas, Bled Olympiad 2002, Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation (B90), 0-1