Background
Čmilytė started playing chess at the age of six, having been taught the moves by her father.
Čmilytė started playing chess at the age of six, having been taught the moves by her father.
She finished second behind Jovanka Houska in the 2000 European Junior (Under-20) Girls Championship in Asturias.
In 2015 she got a seat in the Lithuanian parliament. He remained her coach during the formative years. By 2001, she was ranked number one by FIDE amongst girls.
She was awarded the General Motors title in 2010, having gained the grandmaster norms in the 2008 Gibraltar Chess Festival, 2009 European Team Chess Championship and 2010 European Women"s Championship.
Čmilytė competed in the Women"s World Chess Championship for the first time in 2000, when she made it to the third round. In 2004 she was defeated in the quartefinals by former Women"s World Champion Maia Chiburdanidze.
In 2006, Čmilytė reached the semifinals and lost to the eventual runner-up Alisa Galliamova. In 2008 and 2010 she was eliminated in the second round, while in 2010 and 2015 she went out in round three.
She earned a place in the team for the first time when she was thirteen (in Yerevan, 1996) and was first board at fifteen (Elista, 1998), contributing a plus score each time.
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In the Frauenbundesliga (Women"s Bundesliga) in Germany, she is a team member of OSC Baden Baden, but has also played some league chess in Sweden.