Vidmantas Mališauskas | |
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Born | Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union | 4 August 1963
Title | Grandmaster (1993) |
Peak rating | 2570 (January 1993) |
Vidmantas Mališauskas (born 4 August 1963) is a Lithuanian chess Grandmaster (1993).
He won the Lithuanian Chess Championship on six occasions: in 1987, 1989, 1990, 1998 (shared with Šarūnas Šulskis), 2003 and 2006. [1] Played for Lithuania in the Chess Olympiads of 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2006 [2] and in the European Team Chess Championships of 1992 and 2007. [3] Other notable results include 2nd (behind Maxim Matlakov) in the Gipslis Memorial 2009 [4] and 2nd (behind Vadim Shishkin) in the Lubawka Gate Open 2009. [5]
According to Chessmetrics, 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. [6]
In the November 2009 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2483, making him Lithuania's number six.
His partner is Lithaunian chess Woman Grandmaster Kamilė Baginskaitė.