Cmilyte, Viktorija (06.08.1993)

Lithuanian chess Grandmaster (2010) is born in Siauliai, Lithuania.

European women’s Champion (2011). Lithuanian Champion (2000, 2005).

Best results: European Youth Chess Championships 1993 – Girls U12, 1st; World Youth Chess Championships 1995 – Girls U12; European Junior (Under-20) Girls Championship 2000 in Asturias, 2nd; Corus Reserve Group tournament 2001 at Wijk aan Zee, 1st; Cmilyte took the silver medal at the European Women’s Individual Championship in 2003 (Silivri), 2008 (Plovdiv) and 2010 (Rijeka). European Women’s Rapid Chess Championship 2007, 1st; European Women’s Individual Championship 2011, 1st; 14th European Individual Women’s Chess Championship 2013, 2nd.

She competed in the Women’s World Chess Championship for the first time in 2000, when she reached the third round. In 2004 she was defeated in the quarterfinals by former Women’s World Champion Maia Chiburdanidze. In 2006, Cmilyte reached the semifinals and lost to the eventual runner-up, Alisa Galliamova. In 2008 and 2010 she was eliminated in the second round, while in 2010 and 2015 she went out in round three.

Cmilyte has played for the Lithuanian team in the 2010 Chess Olympiad and in eight Women’s Chess Olympiads (1996, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2016), where she won two individual gold medals on board one, the first at Istanbul in 2000 (9½/12) and the second at Calvià in 2004 (8½/11).

In 2015, she replaced Remigijus Šimašius in the Lithuanian parliament.

Peak rating: 2542 in June 2017