Victor Palciauskas

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Victor (Vytas) Palčiauskas (born October 3, 1941 in Kaunas ) is an American chess player of Lithuanian origin . He is the 10th world chess champion .

After the end of the Second World War, Palciauskas' family emigrated from Lithuania, first to West Germany (Augsburg, 1945), then to the United States (Chicago, 1949).

The later professor of physics in California (he received his doctorate in 1969) learned to play chess at the age of 5, but his passion for the game began after he was 13 years old. For his fifth place at the US Open Championship in 1963, he received the national championship title.

He has been playing correspondence chess since 1970. His shared victory at the second North American championship in correspondence chess qualified him for the 10th correspondence chess world championship, held from 1978 to 1984. Palciauskas won the tournament with 11.5 out of 15 in front of Juan Sebastián Morgado from Argentina with 10.5 points and thus became world champion. In the final of the 12th World Cup in 1992 he was only 12th. A year before winning the title, in 1983, he was awarded the title of correspondence chess grandmaster.

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