Šarūnas Šulskis is a Lithuania

Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

n chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 Grandmaster (1996).

Chess career

He won the Lithuanian Chess Championship

Lithuanian Chess Championship

First unofficial Lithuanian championship was held in Kaunas in 1921. The Champion's title was granted after victorious or drawn match between previous champion and challenger, mostly a winner of Championship of Kaunas in the period from 1922 to World War II. The first official Lithuanian...

 on five occasions: in 1991, 1994, 1998 (shared with Vidmantas Mališauskas

Vidmantas Mališauskas

Vidmantas Mališauskas is a Lithuanian chess Grandmaster .-Chess career:He won the Lithuanian Chess Championship on six occasions: in 1987, 1989, 1990, 1998 , 2003 and 2006. Played for Lithuania in the Chess Olympiads of 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2006 and in the European Team Chess...

), 2007 and 2009. Played for Lithuania in the Chess Olympiads of 1994, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2004 and 2008 and in the European Team Chess Championships of 1997, 2005, 2007 and 2009.

In 2006, he tied for 2nd-9th with Luke McShane

Luke McShane

Luke James McShane is an English chess player. A former World Youth Champion and prodigious talent in chess, he has become one of England's leading players and a member of the Olympiad team. He has also been a trader in London's financial sector.- Early career :McShane won the World Under-10...

, Stephen J. Gordon

Stephen J. Gordon

Stephen J. Gordon is a grandmaster of chess from Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. In September 2004, he took a break from his A-level studies at The Blue Coat School, Oldham to compete in the thirteenth Monarch Assurance Isle of Man International.In 2005, while still a FIDE Master, he finished...

, Gawain Jones

Gawain Jones

Gawain Christopher B. Jones is an English chess Grandmaster.-Career:Jones was born in Keighley, West Yorkshire and began playing chess at the age of four, competing in his first tournaments at six...

, Luis Galego

Luís Galego

Luís Galego is a Portuguese chess grandmaster. He represented Portugal in ten Chess Olympiads , and achieved a top Elo rating of 2543.In 2006, he tied for 2nd-9th with Luke McShane, Stephen J...

, Danny Gormally

Danny Gormally

Danny Gormally , is a British chess Grandmaster. On the July 2011 FIDE rating list his Elo rating was 2519. His peak rating was 2573 on the January 2006 rating list. Nationally he is ranked 15th, and is the 14th strongest of England's 26 grandmasters...

, Klaus Bischoff

Klaus Bischoff

Klaus Bischoff is a German chess player. He was awarded the Grandmaster title by FIDE in 1990.In international tournaments, he has taken a share of first place on a number of occasions, including Kecskemét 1988, Arosa 1996, Recklinghausen 1999, Essen 2000, Bad Zwesten 2003 and Bad Zwesten again in...

 and Karel van der Weide in the 2nd EU Individual Open Chess Championship

EU Individual Open Chess Championship

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 in Liverpool

Liverpool

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. In 2011 he won the Guernsey

Guernsey

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 International Chess Festival.

Chess strength

According to Chessmetrics

Chessmetrics

Chessmetrics is a system for rating chess players devised by Jeff Sonas. It is intended as an improvement over the Elo rating system.-Implementation:...

, at his peak in August 2003 Šulskis's play was equivalent to a rating of 2627, and he was ranked number 75 in the world. His best single performance was at Goodricke 13th op Calcutta, 2002, where he scored 8,5 of 11 possible points (77%) against 2555-rated opposition, for a performance rating of 2697.

In the September 2011 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2577, making him Lithuania's number one.

Notable games

• Sarunas Sulskis vs Johann Hjartarson, Groningen, FIDE WCH k.o NED 1997, French Defense: Winawer (C16), 1/2-1/2
• Emory A Tate vs Sarunas Sulskis, Continental Open 2001, Gunderam Defense: General (C40), 0-1
• Sarunas Sulskis vs Mark A Berkovich, 20th Cappelle la Grande 2004, Italian Game: Two Knights Defense (C55), 1/2-1/2
• Sarunas Sulskis vs Thomas Michalczak, 6th EU Ch. 2005, Russian Game: Cochrane Gambit (C42), 1-0

External links

• Chessmetrics Player Profile: Sarunas Sulskis