With this information, plus other newspaper items I have, plus deducing from progress scores, I arrive at:

Round 1
Spielmann - Disleris 1-0
Vistaneckis - Luckis 1-0

Round 2
Vistaneckis - Spielmann 0.5-0.5
Luckis - Disleris 1-0

Round 3
Spielmann - Luckis 0.5-0.5
Disleris - Vistaneckis 0-1

Round 4
Disleris - Spielmann 0.5-0.5
Luckis - Vistaneckis 1-0

Round 5
Luckis - Spielmann 0-1
Vistaneckis - Disleris 1-0

Round 6
Spielmann - Vistaneckis 0.5-0.5
Disleris - Luckis ??

[Rounds 5 and 6 seem to be reversed from Rounds 2 and 3; don't know colours apart from Spielmann being White in Round 6]

Luckis goes into the last round with 2.5 out of 5; Disleris with 0.5 out of 5. If I had their final scores I could deduce the result of their last-round game. I cannot find these final scores in "Rytas" or "Lietuvos aidas" newspapers. Also not on periodika.lv, or in Estonian or Finnish newspapers, nor in Mikenas' book; nor in Spielmann's article on his 1934 Baltic tour in the May/June issue (page 163) of "Weiner Schach-Zeitung". It seems odd that this final result in not better covered in Lithuanian sources given that one of their own (Vistaneckis) tied for first place with one of the top players in the world at the time.

The items I have from the "Rytas" or "Lietuvos aidas" newspapers are: "Rytas": 17 March 1934, page 9; 19 March 1934, page 7; 20 March 1934, page 2; 24 March 1934, page 9; 9 June 1934, page 9; "Lietuvos aidas": 17 March 1934, page 12; 20 March 1934, page 5; 26 March 1934, page 8. I have checked for nearby dates in these two newspapers extensively. Very surprised there don't seem to be any reports 27 March to early April 1934 (maybe Easter holidays is the problem).

<chesshistoryinterest> the Birmanas bio looks good, but this information needs to be footnoted and sourced:

<Birmanas became the chess champion of Lithuania in 1943 by tying for first place with Arlauskas and Abramavicius with 8.5 out of 11 at the Championship tournament at Vilnius in July 1943 and winning the subsequent 3-way playoff a month later with 2.5 out of 4. He was 4-6= in the 1945 Lithuanian Championship with 6 out of 10.

<chesshistoryinterest>

<[4]Entry in 'Lietuvos Sporto Zinynas', Volume II (1941-1952), page 152 with a correction agreed by hemy, Eugenijus Paleckis, and chesshistoryinterest in the commentary>

They had a phone conversation.
Some of the memories of Laima:

Mechislovas was injured in leg during WWI, he was in poor health and died from pneumonia.
He was working as a bookkeeper.
Before WWII Mechislovas published poetry book.

This confirms you found the right man; and the right 1952 man. Also that he wasn't "disappeared" after 1945, as you previously thought he could have been.

Looks like this family (as with so many from Lithuania) finally ended up in North America.

Apart from events previously mentioned on this page; including by you in your posts of 30 January 2020, I know of two other events that Birmanas participated in:

(1) March 1936: Qualification tournament to be a member of the Lithuanian team to play Latvia in the Lithuania-Latvia match 1936 - Birmanas 6th with +0-2=2 and one unplayed (Butnorius crosstable).

(2) December 1938: Qualifier (Class "A" tournaments) for next Lithuanian Championship - there were two groups of 11 players each with the top 5 from each group qualifying. Birmanas was first in Group 1 with 8.5 out of 10. ("Lietuvos Aidas", 23 December 1938, page 20 (14)).

Perhaps I can help (or be a nuisance!) with one other thing: The 1936 Kaunas Championship [Birmanas participated in this]: The Butnorius crosstable for this has errors in it. Results given for the games Tautvasis-Zalys, Arlauskas-Zalys, Birmanas-Zalys, Abramavicius-Mazelis, Skema-Skibniauskas are contradictory if you go along the rows for both names in each case. To maintain the total scores given for the players, I would say the results of these games are: Tautvasis-Zalys 1/2-1/2
Arlauskas-Zalys 1-0
Birmanas-Zalys 0-1
Abramavicius-Mazelis 1-0
Skema-Skibniauskas 1/2-1/2
That is, the results given in the crosstable for Zalys, Abramavicius and Skema are incorrect.

Also "Skibniauskas" is misspelled.

Also, Butnorius gives the dates of the tournament as "February-March" 1936. But the tournament started on 24 January 1936 ("Rytas", 1 February 1936, page 9).

There may also be an issue with the players' total scores. The table gives Aranavicius' score total as 9, and Skema's score total as 5.5. "Rits", 11 March 1936, page 4 agrees with this; and so does "Briva Zeme", 6 April 1936, page 11, for Aranavicius' score. But... "Rytas", 14 March 1936, page 9 gives the scores as Aranavicius 8.5 and Skema 6; and "Rytas", 29 February 1936, page 9 gives a progress score for Skema of 6 with 2 to play!! "Rits" and "Briva Zeme" are Latvian newspapers, whereas "Rytas" is Lithuanian. If "Rytas" is correct, then presumably the result given in the crosstable of Aranavicius-Skema being a draw should be a win to Skema. But not easy to say which is correct - more research may be necessary.

I based my <Skibniauskas> comment on what you said on the <Skibniauskas> page at the beginning of last year. Interesting that both versions are now considered valid.

In case it might help a bit with your book, I list a number of other (relatively small) errors/problems in these tables that I observed:

(1) Kaunas Championship 1940
(a) For Vilcinskas, Butnorius has the row for him in red with the comment "nesigauna" at the end. I notice that this line adds up to one more than the total of 7.5 given for him. I presume the correction should be that he loses to, not beats, Tinovskis (as the row for Tinovskis gives). (b) Also a player named Beigelis started the event, but presumably did not finish. He scored 1/1 and had an adjournment with Vistaneckis after 3 rounds ("Lietuvos Aidas", 17 February 1940, page 9), and a bit later, lost to Arlauskas (full game given in "Lietuvos Aidas", 24 February 1940, page 12). (c) The event started on 11 February 1940 ("Lietuvos Aidas", 17 February 1940, page 9).

(2) Lithuanian SSR - Latvian SSR match, 30 March - 1 April 1941, Riga Some errors in the Butnorius table:
(a) Board 6/7 - "Salmanis" should be "Solmanis" (not to be confused with B. Salmins on Board 8 in Round 2). (b) Board 8 in Round 1 - The Latvian player is not Mezgalis - it should be Tenis Melngailis - see Rusbase and newspaper items. (c) Board 9 in Round 2 - The unknown Latvian player is Kruzkops - see newspaper items. Rusbase also gets this event wrong. They do not realise that Indulens and Tenis Melngailis do not play in Round 2 and were replaced by B. Salmins and Kruzkops. <Jews in Lithuanian chess history> used Rusbase, so a correction will need to be done if that is being copied over. Rusbase also has an incorrect end date of 31 March 1941 as adjournments were played off on 1 April. To me, the correct version looks to be in "Sarkanais Sports", 3 April 1941, page 3. Here: http://www.periodika.lv/periodika2-...

(3) Lithuanian SSR - Belarus SSR match, 13-14 April 1941, Minsk The Butnorius table is incomplete, and what it has, has some differences with Rusbase. The Rusbase version looks ok as far as one can see, and is partially supported by "Lietuvos Sporto Zinynas", Volume II (1941-1952), pages 152-3. Though one is never quite sure if Rusbase has everything right, so additional independent sources would be desirable. I did find a couple of newspaper items on periodika.lv, but they were not detailed enough to help. Note that the dates of 14-15 April given in <Jews in Lithuanian chess history> is incorrect.

(4) Lithuania-Latvia Trade Union teams match, 2-3 October 1942, Riga (a) The Latvian player on Board 4 should be "Solmanis", not "Salmanis" as ascertained further up this page. (b) For the second Round, the order of Boards 1 and 2 look probably incorrect. That is, for Latvia, Bergs and Zdanovs should still be on Boards 1 and 2 respectively as they were in Round 1 (and thus for Lithuania, Arlauskas stays at Board 1 and Vaitonis is on Board 2). The newspaper items "Dagavas Vestnesis", 14 October 1942, page 2; and "Deutsche Zeitung im Ostland", 5 October 1942, page 4 would seem to say this.

(5) Lithuanian Championship Qualifier, December 1934 - February 1935 (a) In Malskis' row, his draw should be against Stalioraitis, not Skibniauskas. (b) The bottom rows of the table seem to be out of order. According to the scores given, Salbuogis and Malskis should be above Naujokaitis and Beigelis.

(6) 1935 Lithuanian Championship Challengers tournament (a) In the Butnorius crosstable, there is a contradiction in the result given for the game Abramavicius-Zalys. To maintain a score of 9, Abramavicius has to have a win here, not a draw. Abramavicius' score of 9 is confirmed by "Rytas", 12 March 1935, page 7. So Abramavicius must have won this game (matching Zalys' zero). (b) I think the start date of this event is 17 February 1935 ("Rytas", 15 Feb 1935, page 8; "Rits", 5 March 1935, page 9; "Universitas", 15 March 1935, page 17). Lithuanian Wikipedia wrongly has it as 10 February 1935, as does Bertasius. (c) The finish date of 15 March 1935 given on Lithuanian Wikipedia, probably originating from Bertasius, could be correct, but I have been unable to confirm this completely (there is an item in "Rytas", 12 March 1935, page 7, giving the complete scores, except for one adjourned game Mikenas-Arlauskas). (d) The Lithuanian Wikipedia also says there were 13 participants (and thus the scores were out of 12). But the Butnorius crosstable, which other than the above error looks good, clearly gives 14 participants, as does the "Rytas" item. (e) This error carries over into your Luckis Bio on Chessgames, because you used Lithuanian Wikipedia there for this event. Thus for this event, you gave the scores of Vistaneckis, Mikenas and Luckis as being out of 12, whereas in fact, they are out of 13. (Also the dates of 15 February - 11 March you give for this event look incorrect.)

(7) March 1936: Qualification tournament to be a member of the Lithuanian team to play Latvia in the Lithuania-Latvia match 1936 (a) The row for Skema gives his game against Skibniauskas as unplayed, whereas Skibniauskas' row shows it as a win for him. Skema must indeed have lost this game for his total to add up (these totals look like dropped points). (b) "Skibniauskas" is misspelled (either way).

(8) 1937 Lithuanian Championship Challengers tournament (a) The row for Mikenas is wrong. It gives him as beating Simanauskas and losing to Baikovicius. It is in fact the other way round. The correct crosstable is in "Saka Maksla, 25 May 1937, page 57, here: http://www.periodika.lv/periodika2-... It is also given in "Lietuvos Aidas", 15 May 1937. (b) The start date is 24 April 1937 ("Saha Maksla", 25 April 1937, page 31, and "Lietuvos Aidas", 24 April 1937). (c) Bertasius and Latvian Wikipedia (probably quoting him) give the end date as 8 May 1937. I have not found an item to confirm this date.

(9) !941 Lithuanian SSR Championship
(a) Bertasius gives dates of 25 February - 16 March 1941. But the first items on the event I find in periodika.lv are dated 29 March 1941, which is quite a while after. So those dates could be suspect and should be checked out if possible. (b) There were two semi-finals, one in Kaunas and one in Vilnius. Rusbase mentions them, but does not have full crosstables.

(10) December 1941 - January 1942 event in Kaunas, with 1st Abramavicius 7.5 out of 8; 2nd Zukauskas 7 out of 8; 3rd Arlauskas 6.5 out of 8, etc. Was it ever established if this was definitely a Lithuanian Championship? (eg "Unknown Championship" - World of Chess, 1992, No. 3-4. P.40 by E. Slekys. But not given by Bertasius as a Lithuanian Championship). Or was it just a Kaunas Championship, or something else?

(11) 1943 Lithuanian Championship
Bertasius says the tournament was held 4-18 July 1943 in Vilnius; and the 3-way playoff between Birmanas, Arlauskas and Abramavicius was held 9-18 August 1943 in Kaunas.

I will check your comments later.
Last 2 months I was busy with renovation and selling our house located in Toronto suburbs. Now it is sold and we will search for condominium in city downtown, where our son is living. I'm still making some work on Lithuanian chess history project, about 2 hours late night, daily.

While I have not gone through it in full depth, with what I have found, I can elaborate a little on some of my previous comments (where I don't, they stand as they are).

My post of 14 July 2021 (1936 Kaunas Championship): The crosstable (on page 385) from "Musu Sachmatai" helps a lot here. It looks correct (and matches the corrections I suggested to Butnorius' table). It looks like Butnorius introduced errors when he converted it from the names being in pairing order to order of total points gained. So it looks like the "Rytas" items of 29 February 1936 and 14 March 1936 are probably wrong when they say the scores of Aranavicius and Skema are 8.5 and 6 respectively. (2nd edition of "Jews in Lithuanian chess history", page 382, note 501, still quotes the presumably incorrect 14 March 1936 "Rytas" item, however...). (Would you happen to have a link to this 1936 "Musu Sachmatai" magazine, and also the 1942 "Sachmatai" magazine mentioned on page 10? I couldn't find them on epaveldas.lv - they would be interesting to read.)

Re my numbered comments of my 16 July 2021 post:

(2) Incorrect Rusbase table for <Lithuanian SSR - Latvian SSR match, 30 March - 1 April 1941, Riga> is still in the 2nd edition (page 347).

(3) Incorrect dates of 14-15 April 1941 for <Lithuanian SSR - Belarus SSR match, 13-14 April 1941, Minsk> is still in the text of the 2nd edition (page 346).

(12) Kaunas - Vilnius match, 16-17 March 1940, Vilnius. 2nd edition gives this on pages 437-8. The source given is "XX amzius", 26 March 1940, page 4. (I was unaware of this source as I don't know what Lithuanian newspapers carry chess news after 1939, apart from "Lietuvos Aidas" up to 1940.) I had found what I think is a better source for this match (as it gives individual results for each round) - "Lietuvos Aidas", 22 March 1940, page 2.

I placed the "1936 Musu sachmatai - vienkartinis leidinys" in my Dropbox:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4eykuf10m...

The "SACHMATAI, vadovėlis" ("Chess tutorial") by Saliamoras Z., Sirgedas P., Kaunas, 1942 exist only as a printed book. Eugenijus Paleckis have it. It includes example of chess games. No Jewish chess players mentioned in this book.

We stopped working on the 2nd edition in 2017. Boris Rositsan was left as a co-author since he promised to get budget for publishing it. He received copy of the book, but nothing happen. At this time me and Eugenijus Paleckis abandoned this project and started working on "Lithuanian chess history up to XXI century" project.

I still didn't have time to make corrections mentioned by you. Some of it may be already fixed in the new project.

Please don't in any way feel obliged to hurry to respond to my posts, take as long as you like - your house moving very much has priority. You always respond in good time in any case, and I am often much more tardy.

That's a pity about the second edition of "Jews in Lithuanian chess history". I didn't know it had been definitely abandoned. Your new project sounds as though it will more than make up for it; it sounds awesome.

I continue with the <1935 Lithuanian Championship Challengers tournament>:

The crosstable for this is on page 380 of the 2nd edition of "Jews in Lithuanian chess history". I did find a couple of errors in it:

(1) The row for Tinovskis gives him having a draw against Skibniauskas. Whereas Skibniauskas' row gives him as having a loss against Tinovskis.

(2) The row for Stalioraitis gives him having a win against Skema. Whereas Skema's row gives him as having a draw against Stalioraitis.

In addition, there are 10 games that have different results from Butnorius' table. I give them here with the result given in "Jews in Lithuanian chess history" first, then the result in Butnorius' table:

(1) Vaitonis-Zilevicius: 1-0; 0.5-0.5

(2) Vaitonis-Disleris: 0-1; 0.5-0.5

(3) Kuckis Arlauskas: 0.5-0.5; 1-0

(4) Luckis-Zalys: 1-0; 0.5-0.5

(5) Zilevicius-Disleris: 0-1; 0.5-0.5

(6) Zilevicius-Aranavicius: 1-0; 0-1

(7) Disleris-Tinovskis: 0-1; 1-0

(8) Tinovskis-Aranavicius: 0-1; 1-0

(9) Tinovskis-Stalioraitis: 1-0; 0.5-0.5

(10) Arlauskas-Zalys: 0-1; 0.5-0.5

Clearly, the two tables are seriously incompatible and this would need to be resolved. What were the sources for them in each case?

I offer this as hopefully a help for your book. Once again, there is absolutely no hurry from my point of view to address it.

I offer a few final corrections/suggestions to the 2nd edition of "Jews in Lithuanian chess history". Although you have abandoned that project, you could be copying some of the material over to your new project, so perhaps the following might be helpful:

(1) Lithuania-Latvia match, 17-18 March 1935, Riga: The table for this is given on page 329. It is from "P.-T. Drize". The board order is wrong; and also "Sale" should be Zalys. I would suggest the table in "Aizsargs", 15 April 1935, page 235, as a better one (with "Silevicius" corrected to "Zilevicius").

(2) Lithuania-Latvia match, 28-30 March 1936, Kaunas: The table for this is given on page 332. It has several serious errors in it, including the start date. I suggest instead the table in "Krusta-mikla,Sahs,Bridzs", 11 April 1936, page 236.

(3) Lithuania-Latvia match, 31 December 1932 - 2 January 1933, Riga: No table is given for this, but in the commentary on page 323, Luckis is given as beating Endzelins by 1.5-0.5, whereas in fact, it is Endzelins who scores 1.5. Also Luckis-Endzelins is given as Board 6, but is actually Board 5; Abramavicius is given as Board 5, but is actually Board 6. I suggest the table in "Atputa", 20 January 1933, page 29, as a good one to use (with "Lutzkis" modified to a more recognisable form).

(4) Lithuania-Latvia match, 3-4 March 1934, Kaunas: There are two tables for this given on page 327. The first has an error in it (Kopelmans on bottom board loses, not wins, his second game). The second is good, but slightly better is the one in "Centra Balss", 9 March 1934, page 6, as it identifies the correct Kalnins (Arnold). A correction of "Vistayeckis" to "Vistaneckis" in it is needed.

(5) Lithuania-Estonia match, 30 November - 1 December 1937, Tallinn: The cartoon on page 340: Number 5 is not identified - it is Blumenoff. Also the date of the "Waba Maa" newspaper is 1 December, not 2 December.

(6) Lithuania-Estonia match, 27-28 April 1940, Tallinn: On page 343, the initials of "J" and "E" for Laht and Jogi respectively are not correct; their first names are Erik and Hans respectively (eg, see the names I give in my 'SELL' material in my post of 13 December 2018 on the Vladimir Petrov page).

(7) Bernsteinas-Rubinsteinas game given on page 134: The numbering for move 49 is given as "19".

As said before, there is no hurry with any of this.

<1935 Lithuanian Championship> - in the "Lithuanian chess history up to XXI century", volume 3-1, the pages 71-75 are about this tournament. The starting date is February 17. It is include the proper tournament table created by.