Eduardas Rozentalis (born 27 May 1963 in

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) is a Lithuanian

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grandmaster. He played for the Lithuanian team in every

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since 1992, except in 2000 and 2012. Rozentalis won the

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in 1981, 1983 (jointly with Aloyzas Kveinys) and 2002. In 1995 he tied for first in the Canadian Open Chess Championship. He also tied for first, with 6/9, in the 2008 staging of this event, in

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. At the Rilton Cup 2005/6 in Stockholm he was shared 1st with

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, Sergey Ivanov, Tomi Nybäck and Evgeny Postny. In 2009/10 he tied for 1st-5th with

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and Igor Lysyj at the 39th Rilton Cup in Stockholm. In May 2010, he won the 3rd Magistral Ciudad de Asunción Copa Roggio tournament. In 2012 Rozentalis won the Cultural Village tournament in

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and qualified for the Grandmaster Group C of the 2013

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; however, he did not take part in the latter event. In 2019, he won the GM Winter

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international tournament with a score of 7.5/9 In 2018, the second edition of his book ''The Correct Exchange in the Endgame'' was published. His mother is

Ilana Rozentalienė Ilana Rozentalienė (née Epšteinaitė; born 1937) was a Lithuanian chess player. She was two times winner of Lithuanian Women's Chess Championship (1962, 1965). Biography Ilana's parents died in the Kovno Ghetto, in Vilijampolė, a suburb ...

(b. 1937) who twice won Lithuanian Women's Chess Championship (1962, 1965).

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