Simona Limontaitė
Simona Limontaitė is a Lithuanian chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master. She is three time winner of Lithuanian Women's Chess Championship.
Biography
Her first chess trainer was Vytautas Gembutas. From 2006 International Master Vaidas Sakalauskas is her trainer. Simona Limontaitė is winner of the Lithuanian Girl's Championship in 2005.Simona Limontaitė is multiple medalist of the Lithuanian Women's Chess Championships, in which she won three gold and two bronze medals.
Simona Limontaitė participated in several World Youth Chess Championships and European Youth Chess Championships in different age categories. Also Simona Limontaitė participated World Girls U-20 Championship in 2007.
She is participant of European Individual Women's Chess Championship in 2009.
Simona Limontaitė played for Lithuania in the Women's Chess Olympiads:
- In 2008, at third board in the 38th Chess Olympiad (women) in Dresden,
- In 2010, at second board in the 39th Chess Olympiad (women) in Khanty-Mansiysk.
- In 2005, at third board in the 6th European Team Chess Championship in Gothenburg.
She is a graduate of the Vilnius Gediminas Technical University.
Her elder brother Martynas Limontas is chess FIDE master and Grandmaster for solving chess problems.
She was married, performed under the name of her husband. Since 2019, she has been performing again under her maiden name.