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Full name
  
Algimantas Butnorius

Albums
  
Esmeralda, Tyla

Role
  
Musical Artist

Name
  
Algimantas Butnorius

Peak rating
  
2456 (July 1999)


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Country
  
Soviet Union Lithuania Monaco

Born
  
20 November 1946 (age 77) Lithuania (
1946-11-20
)

Title
  
World Senior Champion (2007), Grandmaster (2007)

Similar People
  
Balius, Gytis Paskevicius, Romas Dambrauskas, Hiperbole, Vairas

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Algimantas Butnorius (born 20 November 1946) is a Lithuanian chess Grandmaster and a former World Senior Champion. From 2014 he represented Monaco.

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Algimantas Butnorius VEJO SIRDIS


Chess career

He won the Lithuanian Chess Championship on ten occasions: in 1967, 1968 (shared with Vladas Mikėnas), 1970, 1972 (shared with Gintautas Piešina), 1973 (shared with Jegor Čiukajevas), 1975, 1976, 1980, 1982 and 1993. In team chess, he represented Lithuania at the Chess Olympiads of 2000, 2004, 2006 and in the European Team Chess Championships of 1999 and 2003. He won the World Senior Chess Championship in 2007. In 2010, he tied for 2nd–4th with Vitaly Tseshkovsky and Nikolai Pushkov in the European Seniors’ Rapid Championship.

Butnorius was awarded the International Master title in 1983 and the Grandmaster title in 2007, as a result of his World Senior success.

Chess strength

In the November 2009 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2432, making him Lithuania's number nine.

Notable games

  • Viktor Kupreichik vs Algimantas Butnorius, Vitebsk 1970, Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Traxler Counterattack (C57), 1/2-1/2
  • Lajos Portisch vs Algimantas Butnorius, Leningrad 1969, Indian Game: West Indian Defense (E61), 0-1
  • Algimantas Butnorius vs Garry Kasparov, Baku 1978, Neo-Grünfeld Defence: Classical Variation (D78), 1/2-1/2
  • Algimantas Butnorius vs Anatoly S Lutikov, URS-chT 1975, Philidor Defense: Exchange Variation (C41), 1-0
  • References

    Algimantas Butnorius Wikipedia