Darius Ruzele
Number of games in database: 65
Years covered: 1986 to 2001
Last FIDE rating: 2531
Highest rating achieved in database: 2550
Overall record: +19 -17 =29 (51.5%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

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With the White pieces:  King's Indian (6)      E94 E83 E97 E73  Semi-Slav (5)      D45 D48 D47  Slav (5)      D13 D10 D14	With the Black pieces:  Sicilian (13)      B47 B42 B22 B43 B48  Sicilian Kan (5)      B42 B43  Sicilian Taimanov (5)      B47 B48  Queen's Gambit Declined (5)      D30 D31 D36 D37  French Defense (5)      C11 C05 C02

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DARIUS RUZELE (born Apr-27-1968) Lithuania [what is this?] Awarded the Grandmaster title in 1996. He represented Lithuania in the chess Olympiads from 1992 through 2000. He retired from international chess in 2002. He was Lithuanian champion in 1988 (=Gintautas Piesina and Vitaly Maiorov).

page 1 of 3; games 1-25 of 65  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. D Ruzele vs Gelfand   0-1 37 1986 It ( cat. 12 ) E83 King's Indian, Samisch 2. D Ruzele vs Ivanchuk   0-1 52 1986 Sochi E94 King's Indian, Orthodox 3. D Ruzele vs Glek   ½-½ 57 1988 URS-OT56 Blagoveshchensk E73 King's Indian 4. Krasenkow vs D Ruzele   ½-½ 32 1988 OT56- Blagovesh E06 Catalan, Closed, 5.Nf3 5. D Ruzele vs Gelfand   0-1 58 1989 Kramatorsk E10 Queen's Pawn Game 6. D Ruzele vs Shirov   0-1 52 1989 Ch URS (team) (juniors) D13 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation 7. Ivanchuk vs D Ruzele   1-0 36 1989 Kramatorsk C05 French, Tarrasch 8. Dreev vs D Ruzele   1-0 40 1989 Ch URS (team) (juniors) D65 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, Main line 9. D Ruzele vs S Nikolaev   0-1 43 1990 Budapest Spring op 06th A57 Benko Gambit 10. G Dizdar vs D Ruzele   1-0 25 1992 EU-chT (Men) A07 King's Indian Attack 11. I Hausner vs D Ruzele   ½-½ 30 1992 EU-chT (Men) D30 Queen's Gambit Declined 12. D Ruzele vs I Novikov   ½-½ 72 1992 EU-chT (Men) D47 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 13. D Ruzele vs K Moutousis   0-1 40 1992 EU-chT (Men) E97 King's Indian 14. Leko vs D Ruzele 1-0 52 1992 Debrecen 56/305 C11 French 15. Hort vs D Ruzele   ½-½ 72 1992 Manila olm C11 French 16. D Ruzele vs J Benjamin   1-0 50 1992 Olympiad E15 Queen's Indian 17. C D'Amore vs D Ruzele   0-1 43 1992 EU-chT (Men) A07 King's Indian Attack 18. D Ruzele vs Vyzmanavin   ½-½ 28 1992 Ch Europe (team) E15 Queen's Indian 19. D Ruzele vs H Herndl   1-0 29 1992 EU-chT (Men) D10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 20. Oll vs D Ruzele   ½-½ 34 1993 Vilnius, Lithuania D20 Queen's Gambit Accepted 21. U Lauk vs D Ruzele   0-1 60 1993 Vilnius zt B47 Sicilian, Taimanov (Bastrikov) Variation 22. D Ruzele vs Miles   1-0 36 1994 Moscow E94 King's Indian, Orthodox 23. P Haba vs D Ruzele   0-1 39 1994 EUCup Gr3 C02 French, Advance 24. D Ruzele vs H Siepelt   0-1 37 1994 Berlin Summer open E94 King's Indian, Orthodox 25. Van der Wiel vs D Ruzele   1-0 41 1994 Moscow olm NED-LTU B47 Sicilian, Taimanov (Bastrikov) Variation  page 1 of 3; games 1-25 of 65

Dec-21-05    lopium: Can we have his biography? Seems a strong player. Sep-30-09    Tabanus: <lopium> Sure. After almost four years, here's a try :) GM Darius Ruzele, Lithuania, born 27 April 1968. Current rating 2531, http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?... but no FIDE rated games since 2002. Has played in five olympiads (1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000). GM in 1996. Placed no. 2 (behind 16-year-old Victoria Cmilyte) and 3 in the Lithuanian championships 2000 and 2001. Rating peak 2550 in 2001. French and Sicilian player. ICC handle: D-Ruzele Picture (no. 3 from left): http://www.rebel.nl/czub/team.jpg Biography: http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius... (in Polish) Why did he quit chess?

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