Aloyzas Kveinys (9 July 1962 – 26 July 2018) was a
Lithuania
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chess
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player who was awarded the
Grandmaster title in 1992.
Biography
Kveinys was awarded the Soviet
Master of Sport
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title for chess in 1981. He won the
Lithuanian championship 5 times: in 1983 (shared with
Eduardas Rozentalis
Eduardas Rozentalis (born 27 May 1963 in Vilnius) is a Lithuanian chess grandmaster.
He played for the Lithuanian team in every Chess Olympiad since 1992, except in 2000 and 2012. Rozentalis won the Lithuanian Chess Championship in 1981, 1983 ...
), 1986, 2001 (shared with
Šarūnas Šulskis
Šarūnas Šulskis (born 26 November 1972, in Kėdainiai) is a Lithuanian chess Grandmaster (1996).
Chess career
He won the Lithuanian Chess Championship on five occasions: in 1991, 1994, 1998 (shared with Vidmantas Mališauskas), 2007 and 20 ...
), 2008 and 2012. In 2010 he won a tournament in
Moss, Norway
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. In March 2013 he won the Mallorca Masters. In 2016 he won the Chess Festival in
Bad Wörishofen
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. He was awarded the
FIDE
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titles of
International Master
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in 1990 and
Grandmaster in 1992. He was a graduate of the chess department of the Moscow Institute of Physical Culture and Sports (now
).
Kveinys has played for Lithuania in 8
Chess Olympiad
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s:
* In 1992, at fourth board in the
30th Chess Olympiad
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in
Manila
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* In 1994, at third board in the
31st Chess Olympiad
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in
Moscow
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* In 1996, at fourth board in the
32nd Chess Olympiad
The 32nd Chess Olympiad ( hy, 32-րդ Շախմատային օլիմպիադա, ''32-rd Shakhmatayin olimpiadan''), organized by FIDE and comprising an openAlthough commonly referred to as the ''men's division'', this section is open to both male ...
in
Erevan
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* In 2000, at first board in the
34th Chess Olympiad
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in
Istanbul
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* In 2002, at fourth board in the
35th Chess Olympiad in
Bled
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* In 2004, at third board in the
36th Chess Olympiad
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in
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* In 2006, at second board in the
37th Chess Olympiad
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in
Turin
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* In 2008, at first board in the
38th Chess Olympiad
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in
Dresden
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He has also represented Lithuania in 5
European Team Chess Championship
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* In 1992, at second board in the 10th European Team Chess Championship in Debrecen
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* In 2003, at first board in the 14th European Team Chess Championship in Plovdiv
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* In 2005, at third board in the 15th European Team Chess Championship in Gothenburg
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* In 2007, at third board in the 16th European Team Chess Championship in Heraklion
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* In 2015, at first board in the 19th European Team Chess Championship in Warsaw
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References
External links
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Aloyzas Kveinys
chess games at 365Chess.com
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1962 births
2018 deaths
Chess grandmasters
Lithuanian chess players
Soviet chess players
Chess Olympiad competitors
People from Mažeikiai
Place of death missing