Camilla Baginskaite

Infobox chess player


playername = Camilla Baginskaite
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country = URS LTU USA
datebirth = birth date and age|1967|4|24
placebirth = Vilnius
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title = Woman Grandmaster
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rating = 2309 (January 2008)
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Camilla Baginskaite (born 24 February 1967 [ [http://sah.vrsac.com/search/player_e.asp?FC=2014599 Rating data for player Baginskaite, Camilla, (USA) ] ] in Vilnius [ [http://main.uschess.org/content/view/153/203 The United States Chess Federation - WGM Camilla Baginskaite ] ] , Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR) is an American chess Woman Grandmaster and chess teacher.

She learned chess from her father when she was eight years old, visiting a chess school when she was ten. In 1997 she moved to San Francisco, California. Baginskaite studied design in Lithuania and the U.S.A. with a Master's degree in history of art. She is married to Alex Yermolinsky. They have two sons [ [http://main.uschess.org/content/view/153/203 The United States Chess Federation - WGM Camilla Baginskaite ] ] and got to know each other at the Chess Olympiad 1996 in Yerevan.

When she was 15 years old she became the youngest Lithuanian Women Chess Champion. In 1986 she was second after Ildiko Madl at the U20 World Junior Chess Championship in Vilnius. She won the U20 World Championship in Baguio in 1987. For this achievement she received the title Woman International Master (WIM). The Championship in 1987 was only the second international tournament she was competing at and the first outside the Soviet Union. In the year 2000 she won the U.S. Women's Chess Championship together with Elina Groberman. Since Baginskaite won against Groberman in Tiebraker later on with 2-0 she qualified for the Women's World Chess Championship 2001 in Moscow where she got until the last 16, what was until then the best result for a female U.S. chess player since Women World Championships were founded in 1927. She got kicked out against Xu Yuhua in Tiebreaker.

She was taking part in the Women's Chess Olympiads 1994 and 1996 for Lithuania at first board. At the Chess Olympiad 2000 she was playing first board for the U.S. team. In 2002 she played second board for the U.S. and in 2006 reserve board for the U.S. women team. [ [http://www.olimpbase.org/playersw/hlpd5ntk.html OlimpBase :: Women's Chess Olympiads :: Camilla Baginskaite ] ]

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