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Algimantas Butnorius (20 February 1946 – 30 October 2017) was a Lithuanian chess grandmaster and world seniors champion in 2007. From 2014 he represented Monaco.[2]

Algimantas Butnorius
Country	Lithuania Monaco
Born	(1946-02-20)20 February 1946[1] Kaunas, Lithuania
Died	30 October 2017(2017-10-30) (aged 71)[1] Kaunas, Lithuania
Title	Grandmaster (2007), International Correspondence Chess Master (2012)
Peak rating	2456 (July 1999)

Chess career

He won the Lithuanian Chess Championship on ten occasions: in 1967, 1968 (shared with Vladas Mikėnas), 1970, 1972 (shared with Gintautas Piešina), 1973 (shared with Jegor Čiukajevas), 1975, 1976, 1980, 1982 and 1993.[3] In team chess, he represented Lithuania at the Chess Olympiads of 2000, 2004, 2006[4] and in the European Team Chess Championships of 1999 and 2003.[5] He won the World Senior Chess Championship in 2007.[6] In 2010, he tied for 2nd–4th with Vitaly Tseshkovsky and Nikolai Pushkov in the European Seniors' Rapid Championship.[7]

Butnorius was awarded the International Master title in 1983 and the Grandmaster title in 2007, as a result of winning the World Senior Chess Championship.

Butnorius studied journalism at Vilnius University, graduating in 1973. In 1975–1989, he hosted a chess program on LRT televizija. He also contributed chess-related articles and chess problems to Jaunimo Gretos, Kauno Tiesa, Komunizmo Vėliava, Lietuvos Aidas, Kauno Diena, and Vakarinis Kaunas.[1]

Notable games

• Viktor Kupreichik vs Algimantas Butnorius, Vitebsk 1970, Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Traxler Counterattack (C57), 1/2-1/2
• Lajos Portisch vs Algimantas Butnorius, Leningrad 1969, Indian Game: West Indian Defense (E61), 0-1
• Algimantas Butnorius vs Garry Kasparov, Baku 1978, Neo-Grünfeld Defence: Classical Variation (D78), 1/2-1/2
• Algimantas Butnorius vs Anatoly S Lutikov, URS-chT 1975, Philidor Defense: Exchange Variation (C41), 1-0

References

External links

• Algimantas Butnorius player profile and games at Chessgames.com
• Algimantas Butnorius chess games at 365Chess.com
• Algimantas Butnorius at Chessmetrics
• Algimantas Butnorius player details at ICCF

На других языках

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[de] Algimantas Butnorius

Algimantas Butnorius (* 20. November 1946 in Kaunas; † 30. Oktober 2017[1]) war ein litauischer Schachspieler.

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- [en] Algimantas Butnorius

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[ru] Бутнорюс, Альгимантас Ионович

Альгимантас Ионович Бутнорюс (лит. Algimantas Butnorius; 20 ноября 1946, Каунас — 30 октября 2017) — литовский и монакский шахматист, гроссмейстер (2007).

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