Paulius Pultinevičius (born 2001) is a Lithuanian

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...

player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2019. He is ranked the 4th best player in Lithuania.

Career

Pultinevičius was the Lithuanian U-14 Junior Champion, and, aged fifteen, went on to represent Lithuania in 2016 in the

42nd Chess Olympiad The 42nd Chess Olympiad ( az, 42-ci Şahmat Olimpiadası; also known as the Baku Chess Olympiad), organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and comprising an openAlthough sometimes referred to as the "men's division", this ...

on reserve board, going unbeaten over nine games. He again represented Lithuania in the 43rd Chess Olympiad in 2018, this time on board 2. In 2018, he finished 2nd in the

Lithuanian Chess Championship The first unofficial Lithuanian Chess Championship was held in Kaunas (Temporary capital of Lithuania) in 1921. The Champion's title was granted after victorious or drawn match between previous champion and challenger, mostly a winner of Championshi ...

. Pultinevičius qualified to play in the

Chess World Cup 2019 The Chess World Cup 2019 was a 128-player single-elimination chess tournament that took place in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, from 9 September to 4 October 2019. It was won by Azerbaijani grandmaster Teimour Radjabov. He and the runner-up, Ding Liren ...

, where he was defeated by

Alexander Grischuk Alexander Igorevich Grischuk (born October 31, 1983) is a Russian chess grandmaster. Grischuk was the Russian champion in 2009. He is also a three-time world blitz chess champion (in 2006, 2012 and 2015). He has competed in five Candidates ...

in the first round. In 2020, he won the 40th Plunge Open with a score of 8/9. In August 2022, Pultinevičius won the

Riga Technical University Open Riga Technical University Open (also RTU Open) is international "open" chess festival, annually held in Riga, Latvia in August. It is the largest classical chess tournament in the Baltic states. Abstract The Riga Technical University Open is ...

"A" tournament.

References

External links

Paulius Pultinevičius
chess games at 365Chess.com * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pultinevičius, Paulius 2001 births Living people Chess grandmasters Lithuanian chess players