The chess games of Victoria Cmilyte

V Cmilyte

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Victoria Cmilyte
Number of games in database: 266
Years covered: 1996 to 2009
Current FIDE rating: 2498
Highest rating achieved in database: 2512
Overall record: +118 -56 =91 (61.7%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      1 exhibition game, odds game, etc. is excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS

With the White pieces:

Slav (19)
    D15 D17 D11 D12 D10
Queen's Indian (17)
    E12 E15 E13
Nimzo Indian (13)
    E32 E21 E37 E20 E38
Modern Benoni (11)
    A58 A75 A73 A59 A60
King's Indian (11)
    E63 E60 E68 E62 E97
Semi-Slav (9)
    D44 D43 D45

With the Black pieces:

Sicilian (67)
    B33 B30 B31 B22 B23
Queen's Indian (9)
    E12 E14 E15
Nimzo Indian (9)
    E21 E54 E32 E43 E46
Queen's Pawn Game (7)
    A46 A45 D02
Sicilian Taimanov (7)
    B47 B46 B45 B48
Grunfeld (7)
    D91 D76 D85 D78 D80

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   V Cmilyte vs Chiburdanidze, 2006 1-0
   P Hitzler vs V Cmilyte, 2005 0-1

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VICTORIA CMILYTE
(born Aug-06-1983) Lithuania

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Hailing from from Shaulyai, which is in the north of Lithuania, Cmilyte started playing chess when she was six. Her early achievements include winning the U10 Girls European Junior Championsip in 1993, the Girls U12 at Verdun in 1995, and the World Girls U12 Championship in Szeged in 1995.

In 2000, at the age of 16, Cmilyte won the Women’s Lithuanian Championships. She was given permission to compete in the “Men’s” Lithuanian Championship the following week and made headlines by winning the contest ahead of 5 grandmasters. Also in 2000, she played for Lithuania and won the Gold Medal for Board One (Women’s) at the Chess Olympiad in Istanbul in 2000. In 2001, she won the Corus Reserve Group at Wijk aan Zee.

In 2003, Cmilyte came second after Pia Cramling in the 4th IECC, Women (2003) that was held in Silivri,Turkey. In 2004, she won the Gold Medal at 36th Olympiad (2004) for best percentage on top board, edging out Zsuzsa Polgar who took silver. Also in 2004, Cmilyte played and won a 4 game match with Ekaterina Kovalevskaya, who was runner up in the Women's World Championship that year, in Siaulai, Lithuania by 3-1. Cmilyte contested the FIDE Women's World Championship (2004) in Elista, Russia, and made it to the quarter finals, losing to Maia Chiburdanidze. She also contested the FIDE Women's World Championship (2006), and made it to the semi-final by defeating Maia Chiburdanidze in the quarter final, before losing to Alisa Galliamova-Ivanchuk.

Cmilyte played in the Gibraltar Masters (2005) and placed equal first in the Women’s with four other players. Also in 2005, she played in the giant Ordix Open which included 52 grandmasters, scoring 8/11 to gain equal 16th with 26 other players, winning the prize for second best woman player after Nino Khurtsidze.

Cmilyte is an IM and a WGM. She is married to Alexey Shirov and has two children.

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Game	Result	Moves	Year	Event/Locale	Opening
1. V Cmilyte vs Wang Yu	0-1	30	1996	Wch U14 Girls	A77 Benoni, Classical, 9...Re8, 10.Nd2
2. V Cmilyte vs Chiburdanidze	½-½	44	1998	Elista ol (Women)	E42 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 c5, 5.Ne2 (Rubinstein)
3. V Cmilyte vs V Malakhatko	0-1	42	1999	Swidnica op	A58 Benko Gambit
4. V Cmilyte vs Hoang Thanh Trang	1-0	40	2000	FIDE WCh Women KO	D18 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Dutch
5. I Khurtsilava vs V Cmilyte	½-½	77	2000	FIDE WCh Women KO	A21 English
6. V Cmilyte vs V Malisauskas	1-0	25	2000	LTU-ch	D97 Grunfeld, Russian
7. A Maric vs V Cmilyte	1-0	31	2000	FIDE WCh Women KO	A15 English
8. A Caoili vs V Cmilyte	0-1	42	2000	Istanbul ol (Women)	A88 Dutch, Leningrad, Main Variation with c6
9. V Cmilyte vs I Khurtsilava	1-0	40	2000	FIDE WCh Women KO	A50 Queen's Pawn Game
10. V Cmilyte vs A Maric	½-½	70	2000	FIDE WCh Women KO	E12 Queen's Indian
11. Hoang Thanh Trang vs V Cmilyte	0-1	26	2000	FIDE WCh Women KO	E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical
12. V Cmilyte vs A Smirnov	1-0	23	2001	Keres mem open	E12 Queen's Indian
13. J Timoshin vs V Cmilyte	0-1	42	2001	Keres mem open	A88 Dutch, Leningrad, Main Variation with c6
14. G Prakken vs V Cmilyte	½-½	63	2001	Keres mem open	A88 Dutch, Leningrad, Main Variation with c6
15. V Cmilyte vs Aare Vosu	1-0	50	2001	Keres mem open	D30 Queen's Gambit Declined
16. V Cmilyte vs Gavrikov	0-1	35	2001	Keres mem open	E12 Queen's Indian
17. J Jogi vs V Cmilyte	1-0	28	2001	Keres mem open	B50 Sicilian
18. T Nyback vs V Cmilyte	0-1	28	2001	Keres mem open	A15 English
19. V Cmilyte vs E Kengis	½-½	27	2001	Keres mem open	A10 English
20. V Cmilyte vs D Reizniece	1-0	36	2001	Keres mem open	A58 Benko Gambit
21. V Cmilyte vs Chiburdanidze	½-½	41	2002	FIDE World Cup-A (Women)	E12 Queen's Indian
22. T Stepovaia-Dianchenko vs V Cmilyte	0-1	33	2003	4th IECC, Women	B23 Sicilian, Closed
23. V Cmilyte vs De Vreugt	0-1	44	2003	Wijk aan Zee	D11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
24. Jonkman vs V Cmilyte	1-0	41	2003	Wijk aan Zee	B22 Sicilian, Alapin
25. A Galliamova-Ivanchuk vs V Cmilyte	0-1	51	2003	4th IECC, Women	B23 Sicilian, Closed


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Aug-08-04		percyblakeney: Good result by Cmilyte in this rapid chess tournament, ahead of Ponomariov: http://www.chesstigers.de/cc/2004/e...

Feb-09-05		Hesam7: Who did convert to Islam <Lawrence>??

Feb-09-05		WMD: It was a joke about polygamy.

Feb-16-05		Benzol: <Tigran Petrosian> <Isn't this Shirov's wife?> Yes and I believed they are still married.

Aug-12-05		cu8sfan: <WMD> Wouldn't that be a Mormon? (-;

Oct-10-05		BishopBerkeley: I like this picture of her! She has a "kind face" -- that doesn't necessarily mean she IS kind-hearted, it just means that if she isn't, her face is a bit misleading (at least to me). :) http://www.chessbase.de/2005/chisin... (: Bishop Berkeley :)

Oct-22-05		NohGrobbing: I wouldn't be too misled by this particular kind face. She could sucker you in and then savage you at the board! This lady takes no prisoners! Random question: How many gm's are married to other gm's ? And I wonder if those kinds of marriages are likely to be more or less successful than marrying someone who has only a fleeting interest in chess.

Oct-22-05		Bartleby: This woman has a demonic glean in her eye that betrays a steady diet of fresh, eaten raw, without anesthetic.

Oct-22-05		refutor: you don't hear "still married" and "Shirov" in the same sentence very often

Mar-16-06		BIDMONFA: Victoria Cmilyte CMILYTE, Viktorija http://www.bidmonfa.com/cmilyte_vik... _

May-25-06		Zebra: Does anybody know how this lady's name is pronounced? And the other top Lithuanian players for that matter...

Jun-14-06		WTHarvey: Here are some critical positions from her games: http://www.wtharvey.com/cmil.html

Aug-06-06		Albertan: Here is an interview with Victoria Cmilyte: http://www.gmsquare.com/interviews/...

Aug-06-06		EmperorAtahualpa: Happy birthday, Mrs. Shirov! She is only 23 and a mother of two children already...AND also a professional chess player! She certainly leads a fast-paced life.

Aug-06-06		jackmandoo: I'd like to see her do what I do, (Hospital Security). I control access to every entrance of my hospital via computer and basiclly am responsible for all of the patients lives. I know chess is hard, but so is saving lives which is what I do. At night after I got home to keep sharp I do drills where I have to tumble and jump over obsticals in my house; like in karate movies.

Aug-06-06		jackmandoo: Also guys I am making a Karate movie called "Silent Dragon, (except for when I break a guys neck, then i make sound)" If you guys want to donate some money for production that would be awesome.

Mar-25-07		Dr.Lecter: <jackmandoo> Hmm, how much do you need donations for? I think I might be able to spare few billion dollars.

Aug-06-07		whiteshark: Happy birthday, Mrs. Cmilyte !

Aug-11-07		JYMMI: hum...http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... She won the Rapid European Tournament and got a third place in the blitz tournament. Realy good.

Sep-12-07		whiteshark: Always smiling (here at the age of 16): http://www.msoworld.com/mindzine/ne...

Aug-06-08		whiteshark: Happy birthday, Mrs. Cmilyte ! :D

Aug-06-08		ahmadov: Happy birthday!

Aug-06-08		RoyalFlush: Happy birthday Mrs. Cmilyte-Shirov!

May-21-09		returnoftheking: I was just looking at some games on playchess, found out she just played a funny game. Probably not her usual level but quite entertaining because it was a total bluff: Cmilyte,V - Loeffler,S [E60] 3° Festival Internazionale Capo d'Orso Porto Mannu (6), 20.05.2009 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.g3 c5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Nc3 cxd4 6.Nxd4 0-0 7.Bg2 Qc7 8.Ndb5 Qxc4 9.b3 Qe6 10.0-0 Qb6 11.Be3 Qa5 12.Rc1 Nc6 13.a3 d6 14.b4 Qd8 15.h3 Bd7 16.Nd4 Rc8 17.Nf3 b6 18.Qd2 Bf5 19.Nh4 Be6 20.f4 Bc4 21.g4 e6 22.g5 Ne8 23.Nf3 d5 24.Bf2 Nd6 25.Nh2 a5 26.Ng4 axb4 27.axb4 Ra8 28.b5 Nxb5 29.Nxb5 Bxb5 30.Rxc6 Bxc6 31.Bd4 Ra2 32.Qc3 click for larger view White has lost a pawn and sac'd some extra material along the way for vague threats. Bxd4 looks good enough for black because he can give back some material. Instead he played: Rc2 33.Nh6+ Bxh6 34.Qxc2 1-0 2 pieces are attacked and g7 will be a problem as well.

May-21-09		returnoftheking: click for larger view Guess White's move!

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