| Algimantas Butnorius | |
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| Full name | Algimantas Butnorius |
| Country | Lithuania |
| Born | November 20, 1946 Lithuania |
| Title | World Senior Champion (2007), Grandmaster (2007) |
| FIDE rating | 2488 (March 2011) |
| Peak rating | 2456 (July 1999) |
Algimantas Butnorius (born November 20, 1946) is a Lithuanian chess Grandmaster and a former World Senior Champion.
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He won the Lithuanian Chess Championship on ten occasions: in 1967, 1968 (shared with Vladas Mikėnas), 1970, 1972 (shared with Gintautas Piešina), 1973 (shared with Jegor Čiukajevas), 1975, 1976, 1980, 1982 and 1993.[1] In team chess, he represented Lithuania at the Chess Olympiads of 2000, 2004, 2006[2] and in the European Team Chess Championships of 1999 and 2003.[3] He won the World Senior Chess Championship in 2007.[4] In 2010, he tied for 2nd–4th with Vitaly Tseshkovsky and Nikolai Pushkov in the European Seniors’ Rapid Championship.[5]
Butnorius was awarded the International Master title in 1983 and the Grandmaster title in 2007, as a result of his World Senior success.
According to Chessmetrics, at his peak in September 1983 Butnorius's play was equivalent to a rating of 2538, and he was ranked number 243 in the world. His best single performance was at URS-chT Riga, 1975, where he scored 3 of 8 possible points (38%) against 2664-rated opposition, for a performance rating of 2578.[6]
In the November 2009 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2432, making him Lithuania's number nine.