Career
Arlauskas played at sixth board (+4 –7 =7) in an unofficial Chess Olympiad at Munich 1936. He tied for 1st–3rd, with Birmanas and Leonardas Abramavičius, ahead of Povilas Vaitonis, Povilas Tautvaišas, et cetera, at the 1943 Lithuanian Chess Championship in Vilnius. At the end of World World War II, Arlauskas, along with many other Baltic players (Leonids Dreibergs, Lucius Endzelins, Miervaldis Jursevskis, Leho Laurine, Edmar Mednis, Karlis Ozols, Ortvin Sarapu, Povilas Tautvaišas, Povilas Vaitonis, Elmārs Zemgalis, etc) escaped to West, just before the advancing the Soviet forces arrived, to avoid deportation to Siberia or any other persecutions the Soviet occupation (eg, those of Vladimirs Petrovs).
In 1947, Arlauskas tied for 6–7th in Kirchheim.
He, like Endzelins, Ozols and Sarapu, migrated from Germany to Australia. He finished 3rd in the 4th World Correspondence Championship (1962–1965) and was awarded the General Medical Council title in 1965.