Camilla Baginskaite

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Camilla Baginskaite ( Lithuanian Kamilė Baginskaitė ; born April 24, 1967 in Vilnius ) is a Lithuanian - American chess player and teacher.

Life

Camilla Baginskaite learned chess from her father, the architect and university professor Tadas Baginskas , when she was eight years old. Her mother, Gintautėlė Laimutė Baginskienė , is a well-known glass painter . When she was ten, Camilla Baginskaite attended a chess school. In 1997 she moved to San Francisco . She studied design in Lithuania and the United States and has a degree in art history. Since 1997 she was married to the chess grandmaster Alex Yermolinsky . The two met at the 1996 Chess Olympiad in Yerevan and have a son and a daughter. She has played for the United States Chess Federation since 1997 and returned to the Lithuanian Chess Federation in 2019 .

Chess successes

At the age of fifteen Camilla Baginskaite was second in Vilnius behind Esther Epstein in the women's championship of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic . In 1986 she finished second behind Ildikó Mádl at the U20 Junior World Championships for girls in Vilnius , and in 1987 she was U20 Junior World Champion in Baguio . For this victory she received the title of International Women's Champion (WIM). The 1987 World Cup she won was only the second international tournament she had participated in and the first for her that was not held in the Soviet Union. She won the Lithuanian women's individual championship in 1992 in Panevėžys . In 2000 she became US Women's Champion in Seattle , together with Elina Groberman. Since Baginskaite Groberman defeated 2-0 in a subsequent decisive battle, she qualified for the 2001 World Cup in Moscow . There she made it to the round of 16, which was the best result of a chess player playing for the USA since Mona Karff's fifth place in 1939 . In the round of the last 16, she was eliminated in a tie-break against Xu Yuhua .

With the Lithuanian national women's team, Baginskaite took part in the 1992 European team championships and in the 1992 , 1994 and 1996 chess Olympiads on the first board. At the 2000 Chess Olympiad she played on the first board of the US women's team, on the second board in 2002 , on the first reserve board in 2006 and on the fourth board in 2010 . In the German women's Bundesliga , she played for SC 1903 Weimar from 1992 to 1995 . In the 1997/98 season she was registered with Vimaria Weimar , but was not used. She won the Polish team championship in 1992 with KS Miedź Legnica . In Lithuania, Baginskaite played for the team of VŠK Bokštas Plungė , with whom she also took part in the 1996 European Women's Club Cup .

Camilla Baginskaite has held the title of Women's Grand Master (WGM) since November 2002 . Her Elo rating is 2136 (as of February 2019), her highest rating to date was 2365 from April to December 2002.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija , Vol. II, 2002, Arktis-Beketas, p. 438 (Lithuanian)
  2. ↑ Camilla Baginskaite's results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ Camilla Baginskaite's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ Camilla Baginskaite's results at the European Women's Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Baginskaite, Camilla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baginskaitė, Kamilė (Lithuanian); Baginskaite, Kamilla (spelling mistakes in some tournament reports); Baginskaite, Karina (Mark Weeks website); Baginskaite, chamomile; Baginskaite, Kamile (FIDE spelling until 1997)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian chess player and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Vilnius