Wednesday, July 4, 2007

2007 U.S. Women's Chess Championship - Baginskaite


(Baginskaite defeated Nakamura during the 2006 U.S. Chess Championships, photo right).

Ms. Baginskaite will be playing in the 2007 U.S. Women’s Chess Championship. She has a current rating of 2328(FIDE). Here is some background information on CB:
Biography from the old portion of the USCF website and from new portion of USCF website:

WGM Camilla Baginskaite was born in Vilnius, Lithuania on April 24, 1967 and learned to play chess from her father when she was about eight years old. Baginskaite finished third in the World Championships for Girls under 20 in 1987 and a year later Camilla won the event — a remarkable accomplishment considering it was only her second international tournament and her first outside the USSR. This victory earned her the international master (IM) title.

  • She played first board for the Lithuanian women's team in three Olympiads (Manila, Moscow, Yerevan). In 1997, Camilla moved to the United States.
  • Camilla is married to GM Alex Yermolinsky and they have a son named Edward.
  • In 2000, CB won the U.S. Women’s Chess Championship title after defeating Elina Groberman in a play-off round.
  • CB was NOT one of the members of the victorious U.S. Women’s Olympiad Team that won a Silver Medal for the USA at the 2004 Olympiad – our first ever Women’s Team Medal. She has, however, been a mainstay on our Women’s Olympiad teams, having played on the 2006 Team, which finished in 4th place in Turin, Italy (3.0/5), the 2002 team (5.5/11), and the 2000 team (5.5/10).
Some chess games of CB can be found here. Good luck to her in the upcoming championship!

2 comments:

Pawned! said...

Your blog received mention on the Susan Polgar page! See-

http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2007/07/special-womens-only-sites.html

I enjoy your site very much...Rich

Jan said...

Hi Rich,

Yes, I saw that, it would be great if it results in more readers and fans for Goddesschess and Chess Femme News! Thanks.

Jan

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