Dagnė Čiukšytė (born 1 January 1977) is a Lithuanian
chess
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player. In 2007 she moved to England and now represents this country in international competitions.
Lithuania from 1994 to 2006
Dagnė Čiukšytė has been a professional chess player since she made her debut in 1994 for Lithuania. In 1994, she went on to win the
Lithuanian women's championship. She repeated the same feat in 1996, 1997 and in 2003. Čiukšytė also represented Lithuania in five
Women's Chess Olympiad
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s from 1994 to 2006. Čiukšytė competed at the
1995 Women's Interzonal tournament, held in
Chişinău, and at the
2001 Women's World Championship.
Čiukšytė competed in the
EU Individual Championship in 2006 and finished as the highest ranked female player on 6½ points.
In 1995, she was awarded the title of
Woman International Master
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by
FIDE
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, which was followed by that of
Woman Grandmaster
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in 2002. In 2006 Čiukšytė also received the title of
International Master
FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...
.
England from 2007 to present
She left Lithuania and moved to England to represent the English national chess team. Čiukšytė shared first place with
Guliskhan Nakhbayeva at the women's invitational tournament of the
2011 London Chess Classic festival.
Personal life
Her younger sister,
Živilė Šarakauskienė, is also a chess player who was national women's champion of Lithuania in 2002, 2009, and 2011.
See also
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List of female chess players
This article lists female chess players who have received official World Chess Federation (FIDE) titles or are otherwise renowned as women in chess.
Grandmasters
There are 40 female players who have been awarded the title of Grandmaster, the ...
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List of nationality transfers in chess
This is a list of chess players who have represented more than one nation in FIDE-sanctioned tournaments. These players underwent a change in national federation affiliation but may not necessarily changed their citizenship in the process but may ...
References
External links
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Dagne Ciuksytegames at 365chess.com
Dagne Ciuksytegames and profile at Chess-DB.com
Dagne CiuksyteDagne Ciuksyte's website
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1977 births
Living people
Lithuanian female chess players
Lithuanian chess players
English female chess players
English chess players
Chess International Masters
Chess woman grandmasters
People from Panevėžys
Chess Olympiad competitors