Tomas Laurušas

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Tomas Laurušas at the 16th Chess Festival in Klaipėda 2019
Association LithuaniaLithuania Lithuania
Born February 13, 1996
Kaunas
title International champion (2013)
Current  Elo rating 2503 (September 2020)
Best Elo rating 2511 (July 2019)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Tomas Laurušas (born February 13, 1996 in Kaunas ) is a Lithuanian chess player .

Life

Tomas Laurušas comes from Kaunas and has been studying at the Mykolas Romeris University in Vilnius since 2015 . He has been playing chess since he was five. His first trainer was IM Kestutis Kaunas .

His sister Brigita Stonienė (née Laurušaitė) was two Lithuanian youth champions in the U18 female age group. The siblings attended the Kauno Jaunalietuvių sporto organizacijos mokykla sports school .

successes

At the age of eight he became the Lithuanian single champion in children's chess (U-10). In 2008 Laurušas was second at the U14 EU championship in Mureck , as the only one of the 50 participating players who would have been eligible to play for the U12. In 2012 he was third in the U16 age group at the European Youth Championships in Prague . Laurušas took part in the U16 Olympiad in Istanbul for Lithuania 2012 on the top board and received an individual silver medal for his result of 7.5 points from 9 games.

At the European Team Championship 2013 in Warsaw , Laurušas played on the fourth board of the Lithuanian national team, in 2015 in Reykjavík on the second board. At the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Tromsø he was on the third board. At the Lithuanian individual championship in Vilnius in 2014, he was third behind Šarūnas Šulskis and Aloyzas Kveinys . In 2016 and 2019 he won the Lithuanian individual championship, both times held in Vilnius.

Laurušas plays club chess in Lithuania for ŠK Margiris Kaunas . With Margiris he took part in the European Club Cup in 2009 and 2014.

Tomas Laurušas has held the title of International Master since November 2013 . He achieved the norms for this in July 2010 at the Miguel Najdorf Memorial in Warsaw, with overachievement in August 2013 at the RTU Open in Riga and in the Open in Panevėžys that began one day later .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MRU (Lithuanian)
  2. ↑ Šachmatų čempionas iššoko iš pasalos . Article in the daily newspaper Lietuvos rytas (Lithuanian)
  3. ↑ Result of the EU Championship U14 2008 ( PDF )
  4. ↑ Result of the U16 European Championship 2012 at chess-results.com
  5. ↑ Tomas Laurušas' results at the European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ Tomas Laurušas' results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ Naujuoju Lietuvos šachmatų čempionu tapo Š. Šulskis . Article in the sports portal of Delfi (Lithuanian)
  8. ↑ Tomas Laurušas' results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  9. ↑ IM application (English)
personal data
SURNAME Laurušas, Tomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laurusas, Tomas (FIDE)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaunas