Vidmantas Mališauskas

Vidmantas Mališauskas (born 4 August 1963) is a Lithuanian chess Grandmaster (1993).

Vidmantas Mališauskas
Country	Lithuania
Born	(1963-08-04) 4 August 1963 (age 62) Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union
Title	Grandmaster (1993)
Peak rating	2570 (January 1993)

Chess career

He won the Lithuanian Chess Championship on six occasions: in 1987, 1989, 1990, 1998 (shared with Šarūnas Šulskis), 2003 and 2006.^[1] Played for Lithuania in the Chess Olympiads of 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2006^[2] and in the European Team Chess Championships of 1992 and 2007.^[3] Other notable results include 2nd (behind Maxim Matlakov) in the Gipslis Memorial 2009^[4] and 2nd (behind Vadim Shishkin) in the Lubawka Gate Open 2009.^[5]

Chess strength

According to Chessmetrics, at his peak in May 1993 Mališauskas's play was equivalent to a rating of 2666, and he was ranked number 49 in the world. His best single performance was at POL-chT Bydgoszcz, 1990, where he scored 6 of 6 possible points (100%) against 2472-rated opposition, for a performance rating of 2671.^[6]

In the November 2009 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2483, making him Lithuania's number six.

Family

His partner is Lithuanian chess Woman Grandmaster Kamilė Baginskaitė.

Notable games

• Vidmantas Malisauskas vs Viktor Kupreichik, Warsaw 1990, Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation (B94), 1-0
• Vidmantas Malisauskas vs Zigurd Lanka, Vilnius 1993, Sicilian Defense: Richter-Rauzer (B62), 1-0
• Vidmantas Malisauskas vs Alexey Shirov, It (cat.13) (active) 1996, Sicilian Defense: Richter-Rauzer (B62), 1-0
• Joel Benjamin vs Vidmantas Malisauskas, Bled Olympiad 2002, Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation (B90), 0-1