Titas Stremavičius (born 15 February 1998) 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 who holds the title of Grandmaster (GM, 2019). He is winner of

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 ...

(2021).

Biography

Titas Stremavičius was multiple participant of

European Youth Chess Championship The European Youth Chess Championship is organized by the European Chess Union (ECU) in groups under 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 years old. The first tournament was held in 1991, and the under 8 category was introduced in 2007. Until 2002 there was als ...

s and

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s in different age categories. His main achievement is the bronze medal of the 2015 European Youth Chess Championship in the category under 18 (shared 2nd-3rd places with Manuel Petrosyan and lost the tie-break). Titas Stremavičius is Lithuanian Chess Champion in 2021. He is silver medalist of the Lithuanian Chess Championships in 2015 and 2016 (in 2016, he shared 1st-2nd places with Tomas Laurušas and lost on additional indicators). Titas Stremavičius is winner of the Baltic Cup 2014 (chess tournament with the norm of the international master). Titas Stremavičius is winner of Open Chess Tournaments in

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(2015),

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(2018), and participated in a large shared of 1st place in the open tournament in

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(2021). He is winner of International Chess Tournaments in Panevėžys (2016),, Charlotte (2018, 2019 and 2022, tied 1st-2nd with Jennifer Yu in 2018), with

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in 2022),

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(2019),

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(2021). In 2023, in Kaunas he won silver medal in Lithuanian Chess Championship. Titas Stremavičius played for Lithaunia in the

Chess Olympiad The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the host nation. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, FIDE held an Online Chess Olympiad in 2020 an ...

s: * In 2018, at fourth board in the 43rd Chess Olympiad in

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(+4, =5, -0), * In 2022, at second board in the 44th Chess Olympiad in

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(+3, =2, -5). In 2015, he was awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title and received the FIDE Grandmaster (GM) title four years later.

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* * * 1998 births Living people Chess grandmasters Lithuanian chess players Sportspeople from Kaunas {{Lithuania-chess-bio-stub