Vitalius Vladas Andriušaitis

Vitalius Vladas Andriušaitis (born June 26, 1927 in Žiūrai-Gudeliai, district Vilkaviškis ; † October 9, 2006 ) was a Lithuanian sports pedagogue, chess coach and referee , honorary citizen of the district of Plungė .

Life

In 1940 Andriušaitis studied at the Žiūrai-Gudeliai primary school, then at the Šunskai secondary school near Marijampolė , in the Progymnasium in Pilviškiai near Vilkaviškis and later at the Marijampolė grammar school (1950). He was interested in chess since childhood. Andriušaitis played a simultaneous chess party with Vladas Mikėnas when he was visiting high school. In 1954 he graduated from the State Pedagogical Institute in Vilnius with a degree in history . Andriušaitis was the institute champion in individual chess for three years. From 1954 he worked at the 1st Plungė Middle School . From 1954 to 1979 he taught history and social sciences at what is now Plungė Secondary School. In 1958 he founded chess lessons in the Plungė pioneer house . In 1964 he and Antanas Jadziauskas established the Plungė sports school and the chess section there. The chess players he supervised included Vitalijus Majorovas (1961–1997), WFM Laima Domarkaitė and FIDE trainer Laimonas Kudžma . Andriušaitis worked as a trainer until 2006. He founded the chess club Plungės visuomeninis šachmatų klubas “Bokštas” and directed it from 1992 to 2006.

Andriušaitis was a candidate for the master of sport in chess. In 1965 and 1966 he became a chess champion in Plungė district . In 1959 and 1960 he was the winner and in 1957 and 1967 he took 3rd place in the chess championship of the Lithuanian "Nemunas" sports club ( Lietuvos savanoriška sporto draugija “Nemunas” ). Andriušaitis was a national category referee. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Lietuvos šachmatų federacija (LŠF) and the Commission for Children and Youth of the LŠF. Andriušaitis was elected to represent the Plungė Sports Community as a delegate to the Restituting Assembly of Lietuvos tautinis olimpinis komitetas .

family

Andriušaitis was married to Jadvyga Jasaitė. They had two daughters (Violeta and Alma).

Vitalius Andriusaitis Memorial

Vitalius Andriusaitis Memorial has been held annually since 2007 . From July 20 to 26, 2015, around 80 chess players from Lithuania, Latvia , Poland , Russia , Israel and Denmark , including a chess grandmaster , four international masters and two FIDE masters, took part in the international tournament . On October 18, 2015, an international rapid chess tournament with FIDE registration with 25 participants (3 players from Liepāja , Latvia) was organized to commemorate Andriušaitis.

Honor and souvenir

• 2011: Candidate in the category "Human-Contemporary", competition "National Values" of the daily newspaper Respublika
• 2001: Honorary citizen of the Plungė district
• 2013: Vilnius rapid chess championship in memory of Vitalius Vladas Andriušaitis
• 2013: XXXIIIrd International Chess Tournament "Plunge 2013" (The tournament is for Vitalius Andriusaitis memorial)
• 2014: XXXIV International Chess Tournament "Plunge 2014" (The tournament is for Vitalius Andriusaitis memorial)
• 2015: XXXV International Chess Tournament "Plunge 2015" (The tournament is for Vitalius Andriusaitis memorial)
• 2015: Vitalius Vladas Andriusaitis Memorial Rapid Chess Tournament

Awards

• 1979: Honored Trainer of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic
• 1997: Honored Coach of the Republic of Lithuania
• 1997: Medal “For Services to Sport of Lithuania ” from the Department of Physical Culture and Sport at the Government of the Republic of Lithuania

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life (Lietuvos sporto enciklopedijos redakcija)
2. ↑ Gyvenimas - šachmatai (daily newspaper Respublika )
3. ↑ Biography on chessclub.lt (Lithuanian)
4. ↑ life
5. ↑ SSD "Nemunas" pirmenybės
6. ↑ Vyksta XXXV tarptautinis šachmatų turnyras "Plungė 2015" (Portal Regionunaujienos.lt)
7. ↑ Mokytojo Vitaliaus Vlado Andriušaičio atminimo turnyras 2015
8. ↑ Tournament report November 2015: Vitalius Vladas Andriusaitis Memorial Rapid Chess Tournament (FIDE information)
9. ↑ Iškiliausiems bus įteikti "Respublikos" nacionalinių vertybių 2011 "apdovanojimai ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice . (Daily newspaper Vakarų ekspresas ) 
10. ↑ Vilnius Rapid Championship A Dedicated to Vitalius Vladas ANDRIUSAITIS (2013) (Information from the chess portal Cess-db.com)
11. ↑ XXXIII International Chess Tournament "Plunge 2013": The tournament is for Vitalius Andriusaitis memorial (Kalendarz Szachowy, Portal Kalendarz.siwik.pl; Polish)
12. ↑ XXXIV International Chess Tournament "Plunge 2014" ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
13. ↑ Vitalius Vladas Andriusaitis Memorial Rapid Chess Tournament
14. ↑ Tournament Details November 2015 (FIDE information)
15. ↑ Plungiškiai KM, SM, FM, IM, NA, FA, IA (title in the Plungė chess club)