Dagnė Čiukšytė

Dagnė Čiukšytė at the 2008 Chess Olympiad
Association	Lithuania (until 2007) England (since 2007)
Born	January 1, 1977 Panevėžys , Soviet Union
title	International Master of Women (1995) Grand Master of Women (2002) International Master (2006)
Current  Elo rating	2294 (April 2020)
Best Elo rating	2450 (January 2007)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Dagnė Čiukšytė ( FIDE name : Dagne Ciuksyte ; born January 1, 1977 in Panevėžys ) is a Lithuanian chess player . She has been playing for the English Chess Federation since 2007 .

Life

In Lithuania she was a professional chess player. She has lived in England since 2005. She is in a relationship with an English chess player; the two have a daughter (* 2007). Her younger sister Živilė Šarakauskienė (* 1978) is also a chess player.

successes

At the 2001/02 World Cup , she switched off in the first round Ketewan Arachamia-Grant and in the second Xu Yuanyuan , but failed in the third round to Maia Tschiburdanidze . She won the Lithuanian women's championship in 2003 in her native Panevėžys. In 2006 she became European Union Champion in Liverpool . British women's championships have existed since 1904. In 2007, with the help of a sponsor, an English women's championship took place in Great Yarmouth for the first time, which was won by Dagnė Čiukšytė.

For the Lithuanian women's national team, she took part in five chess Olympiads on the second board from 1994 to 2006 , for the English women's national team in the 2008 chess Olympiads , also on the second board in 2016 and on the third board in 2018 with a total score of 53.5 points from 84 games ( +43 = 21 −20). She also played in eight women's European team championships . She played three times for Lithuania (1997, 2003 and 2005 on the first board) and five times (2007, 2011 , 2015 and 2017 on the second board and 2013 on the top board) for England. In 2005 in Gothenburg she received an individual gold medal for her score of 6.5 out of 9.

In Lithuania she plays for Širvinta Vilkaviškis , in the 4NCL for Guildford A&DC . She won the 4NCL with Guildford in 2007 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 and 2017 . She took part in the European Women's Club Cup with the Lithuanian clubs Bokštas Plungė , Širvinta Vilkaviškis and Panevėžys Chess Club . In Germany she played in the 2nd women's league on board one of SV 1947 Walldorf .

In 1995 she became the International Women's Champion (WIM). Although she had already met the necessary standards for the title of Grand Master of Women (WGM) in 1997 , it was not until 2002 that she had an Elo rating of more than 2300, so that the title could only then be awarded to her. She has held the title of International Master (IM) since 2006. She achieved the norms for her IM title at the 15th Staufer Open 2003 in Schwäbisch Gmünd , at the 10th Karl Wagner Memorial Tournament 2003 in Graz and at the 15th European Women's Team Championship in Gothenburg in 2005. As the best woman in the 22nd Cappelle-la-Grande tournament in 2006, she achieved a grandmaster standard (GM). In January 2018 she was third behind Harriet Hunt and Jovanka Houska in the English women's Elo ranking. With her highest rating to date of 2450, she was 30th in the FIDE women's world rankings in January 2007. Between 1995 and 1998 she had topped the Lithuanian women's rankings.

Web links

Commons : Dagnė Čiukšytė  - collection of images

• Replayable chess games by Dagnė Čiukšytė on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dagnė Čiukšytės results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
2. ↑ 42nd Olympiad Baku 2016 Women team line-up with individual results - Women England. In: chess-results.com. September 13, 2016, accessed June 2, 2019 . 
3. ↑ 43rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Women team line-up with individual results - Women England. In: chess-results.com. October 5, 2018, accessed June 2, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Dagnė Čiukšytės results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Dagnė Čiukšytės results at the European Women's Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ IM application to FIDE (English)