Viktorija Čmilytė
| Viktorija Čmilytė | |
|---|---|
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| Country | Lithuania |
| Born |
6 August 1983 Šiauliai, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Title |
Grandmaster Woman Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2538 (February 2017) |
| Peak rating | 2536 (February 2016) |
Viktorija Čmilytė (born 6 August 1983 in Šiauliai) is a Lithuanian chess Grandmaster (GM), European Women's Champion in 2011 and two-time absolute national champion. In 2015 she got a seat in the Lithuanian parliament.
Čmilytė started playing chess at the age of six, having been taught the moves by her father. He remained her coach during the formative years. She won the European Under-12 Girls Championship in 1993 and the World Under-12 Girls Championship in 1995.
In 2000, at the age of sixteen, Čmilytė won both the women's and absolute national championships of Lithuania, held in Vilnius. She won the latter edging out on tiebreak Grandmasters Darius Ruzele, Viktor Gavrikov and Aloyzas Kveinys, and International Masters Vaidas Sakalauskas and Vytautas Slapikas. Čmilytė won the absolute championship again in 2005 in her home city, on tiebreak from GM Šarūnas Šulskis.
She finished second to Jovanka Houska in the 2000 European Junior (Under-20) Girls Championship in Asturias. By 2001, she was ranked number one by FIDE amongst girls. In the same year she won the Corus Reserve Group tournament at Wijk aan Zee.
Čmilytė won the silver medal at the Women's European Individual Chess Championship in 2003 (Silivri), 2008 (Plovdiv) and 2010 (Rijeka). She became European Women's Rapid Chess Champion in 2007. She was awarded the GM title in 2010, having gained the grandmaster norms in the 2008 Gibraltar Chess Festival, 2009 European Team Chess Championship and 2010 European Women's Championship.
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