Vilhelmina Kaušilaitė-Kutavičienė ( lit. Vilhelmina Kaušilaitė-Kutavičienė , ur. Kaushilaitė ( lit. Kaušilaitė ); March 3, 1936 , Saldus village, Molet district , Utena county - March 23, 1988 , Vilnius ) - Soviet and Lithuanian chess player , master of sports, USSR , chess master, USSR chess ( 1988 ), multiple champion of the Lithuanian SSR in women's chess, participant in the final of the USSR women's chess championship ( 1960 ).
 Wilhelmina Kaushilaitė-Kutavichene | |
|---|---|
| Vilhelmina Kaušilaitė-Kutavičienė | |
| Country |  the USSR |
| Date of Birth | March 3, 1936 |
| Place of Birth | Molet district |
| Date of death | March 23, 1988 (52 years old) |
| Place of death | Vilnius |
Biography
From the beginning of the 1950s to the end of the 1970s, she was among the leading chess players of Lithuania. She won the Lithuanian Women's Chess Championships eight times (1961, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977) and became the vice champion the same number of times (1956, 1958, 1960, 1964, 1966, 1976, 1977, 1980). Seven times represented the team of the Lithuanian SSR in the championships of the USSR between the teams of the Union republics in chess (1958-1959, 1963-1967, 1972-1979) [1] . In 1968, she represented the team of the sports society "Zalgiris" in the USSR Cup of Chess [2] . In the USSR women's chess championships, she repeatedly participated in the semifinals, but only reached the final in 1960 .
In 1958 she graduated from Vilnius University , and until 1959 she studied at the Lithuanian State Conservatory (now the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater ). She worked as a journalist on Lithuanian television . She was the wife of the Lithuanian composer Bronius Kutavičius .
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Links
- Parties of Wilhelmina Kaushilaitė-Kutavichene in the database
- Wilhelmina Kaushilaitė-Kutavichene personal card on 365chess.com