Romanas Arlauskas (born 11 June 1917, Kaunas, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian-born Australian chess master. Events 1184 BC - Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned according to the calculations of Eratosthenes. Year 1917 ( MCMXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Kaunas ( ˈkoʊnəs is the second largest City in Lithuania and a former temporary capital. Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika is a Country in Eastern often referred to as Northern Europe or in the For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics.
Arlauskas played at sixth board (+4 –7 =7) in an unofficial Chess Olympiad at Munich 1936. The Chess Olympiad is a Biennial Chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other [1] He tied for 1st-3rd, with Birmanas and Leonardas Abramavičius, ahead of Povilas Vaitonis, Povilas Tautvaišas, etc. Leonardas Abramavičius (Leonhard Abramavicius ( - died Kaunas 1960 was a Lithuanian Chess player Povilas (Paul Vaitonis ( 15 August 1911, in Užpaliai, Lithuania – 23 April 1983, in Hamilton, Canada Povilas (Paul Tautvaišas (Tautvaisas Tautvaisis (born 6 May 1916 – died November 1980 was a Lithuanian-American chess master , at the 1943 Lithuanian Chess Championship in Vilnius. In 1930 Lithuania joined FIDE, the World Chess FederationWhen Lithuania was part of the Soviet Union (June 1940 – June 1941 and July 1944 – March 1990 players [2] At the end of World War II, Arlauskas, along with many other Baltic players (Dreibergs, Endzelins, Jursevskis, Laurine, Mednis, Ozols, Sarapu, Tautvaišas, Vaitonis, Zemgalis, etc. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including ) escaped to West, just before the advancing the Soviet forces arrived, to avoid deportation to Siberia or any other persecutions the Soviet occupation (e. Siberia (Сиби́рь Sibir) is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of Northern Asia and for the most part currently serving g. , those of Vladimirs Petrovs). Vladimirs Petrovs or Vladimir Petrov ( 27 September 1907 – 26 August 1943 at Kotlas was a Latvian chess master [3] In 1947, Arlauskas tied for 6-7th in Kirchheim. He, like Endzelins, Ozols and Sarapu, migrated from Germany to Australia. Arlauskas won the South Australian championship in 1949.
He finished 3rd in the 4th World Correspondence Championship (1962–1965) and was awarded the GMC title in 1965. Correspondence chess is Chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence usually through a Correspondence chess server, through email or by
References
- ^ OlimpBase :: Chess Olympiad, Munich 1936, Lithuania
- ^ Lietuvos šachmatų istorija
- ^ Andris Fride, Vladimirs Petrovs: A chessplayer's story from greatness to the gulags (Caissa Editions)
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