Camilla Baginskaite
Camilla Baginskaite ( Lithuanian Kamilė Baginskaitė; born April 24, 1967 in Vilnius ) is a Lithuanian- American chess player and teacher.
Life
Camilla Baginskaite learned chess from her father, the architect Tadas Baginskas, when she was eight years old. Her mother Gintautėlė Laimutė Baginskienė is a well-known glass artist. With ten years Baginskaite Camilla visited a chess school. In 1997 she moved to San Francisco. She studied design in Lithuania and the United States and a degree in art history. She is married to the chess grandmaster Alex Yermolinsky since 1997. The two first met at the 1996 Chess Olympiad in Yerevan know and have two sons together.
Chess successes
Fifteen year was Camilla Baginskaite youngest Lithuanian Champion. In 1986, she was at the U20 World Youth Championship of the girls in Vilnius split second behind Ildikó Mádl, 1987, she was in Baguio U20 Junior World Champion. She received for this victory the title International Champion of Women (WIM). The recovered 1987 World Championship was only the second international tournament in which they had participated and the first of them, that did not take place in the Soviet Union. In 2000, she was in Seattle U.S. women's champion, together with Elina Groberman. Since Baginskaite Groberman defeated in a subsequent showdown 2-0, she qualified for the 2001 World Championships in Moscow. There she made it to the knockout stages, which meant the best result of gambling for U.S. chess player since the fifth place in 1939 by Mona Karff. In the Round of 16, she dropped out in the tiebreaker against Xu Yuhua.
The Lithuanian National Team took Baginskaite to the Chess Olympiads in 1994 and 1996 in part on the first board. At the Chess Olympiad 2000, she played on the first board of the U.S. team in 2002 at the second, in 2006 on the first reserve board and 2010 on the fourth board. In the German Bundesliga woman she played for Vimaria Weimar.
Camilla Baginskaite wearing since November 2002 the title Grand Master of the women ( WGM ). Your current Elo rating is 2343 (as of July 2010), so it is on the fourth place in the U.S. ranking woman. Their highest ever Elo rating was 2365 April-December 2002.