Simona Kiseleva

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Simona Kiseleva (born Simona Limontaitė ; born August 22, 1987 in Telšiai ) is a Lithuanian chess player .

Life

Her father taught her to play chess. At the age of eight she attended a chess school in Telšiai, where Vytautas Gembutas (* 1944) was her chess teacher. Since 2006 she has been studying at the Gediminas Technical University in Vilnius . Since this year she has been trained by the international master Vaidas Sakalauskas (* 1971).

successes

At the Lithuanian women's individual championship in 2003 in Panevėžys , she finished third. She won the title two years later in Vilnius , with her brother Martynas Limontas (* 1984), a FIDE master and grand master in solving chess compositions , as seconds . For the Lithuanian women's national team, she took part in the European team championship in Gothenburg in the same year . In 2005 she also won the Lithuanian U18 championship for women. She played again for the Lithuanian women's national team at the Chess Olympiads in Dresden in 2008 and in Khanty-Mansiysk in 2010 . In 2008 she won the Lithuanian women's championships in blitz and rapid chess . At the Lithuanian women's individual championship in 2009 in Vilnius, she again took third place. Again she was able to win the Lithuanian Women's Championship in Vilnius in 2017.

She played club chess in Lithuania for Telšiai until 2006 , then for Vilniaus fortas . At the European Women's Club Cup 2008 in Kallithea (Chalkidiki) , she played for the Panevėžys Chess Club , as Vilniaus fortas had no women's team. She has held the title of International Women's Champion (WIM) since November 2008 . She achieved the standards for this at the Lady & Chess tournament in August 2007 in Panevėžys , at the Open in March 2008 in Reykjavík and in the same month at the Scandinavian Ladies Open in Stockholm . The Stockholm result was also a norm for the title of Women's Grand Master (WGM). She achieved a fourth WIM standard at the EU Championship in Liverpool in September 2008 , but the first three standards were enough for the title.

Their Elo rating is 2214 (as of September 2014). This puts her in fourth place in the Lithuanian Elo ranking of women, but is listed as inactive because she has not played a rated game since the 2010/11 Lithuanian team championship and the 27th Open in Cappelle-la-Grande in February 2011 Has. Her highest rating to date was 2243 in March 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lithuanian Women's Individual Championship 2005 (Lithuanian)
  2. ↑ Simona Kiseleva's results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ Simona Kiseleva's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ Lithuanian Women's Individual Championship 2009 ( Memento from July 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Lithuanian)
  5. ↑ Vilniuje paaiškėjo 2017m. Lietuvos šachmatų čempionai! . Article of March 4, 2017 on margiris.vprojektai.lt (Lithuanian)
  6. ↑ Simona Kiseleva's results at the European Women's Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ WIM application to FIDE (English)
personal data
SURNAME Kiseleva, Simona
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Limontaitė, Simona (maiden name); Limontaite, Simona (FIDE notation); Limontaitė-Kiseleva, Simona
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Telšiai