Rita Varnienė

Lithuanian chess player

Rita Varnienė
Country	Lithuania
Born	(1973-05-09) 9 May 1973 (age 51) Vilkaviškis, Lithuania
FIDE rating	2101 (May 2012)
Peak rating	2219 (July 2002)

Rita Varnienė (née Dambravaitė, born 9 May 1973) is a Lithuania chess player. She is a two-time winner of the Lithuanian Chess Championship (1991, 1999).

Biography

Her first chess coach is Kęstutis Dambrava.^[1] In 1991 graduated from secondary school in Vilkaviškis and in 1995 graduated from Vytautas Magnus University (VDU) Faculty of Informatics.^[2] In Lithuanian Women's Chess Championship she has won 2 gold (1991, 1999), 3 silver (1990, 1992, 2000) and 2 bronze medals (1993, 2002).

Rita Varnienė played for Lithuania in Chess Olympiads:^[3]^[4]

In 1992, at third board in the 30th Chess Olympiad in Manila (+1 −5 =2);
In 2000, at second board in the 34th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul (+4 −4 =4);
In 2002, at third board in the 35th Chess Olympiad in Bled (+4 −3 =3).

Rita Varnienė played for Lithuania in European Team Chess Championship (women):^[5]

In 1999, at second board in 3rd European Team Chess Championship (women) in Batumi (+3 −3 =3).

Since 2007 participating in chess tournaments rarely.

Sister

She has an older sister, Asta Dambravaitė (born 1971), who is also a chess player.^[6] In Lithuanian Women's Chess Championship Asta Dambravaite has won 3 bronze medals (1991, 1992, 1997) but in 1992 played for Lithuania in the 30th Chess Olympiad in Manila at first reserve board (+5 -2 =3).^[7]