IMDeimante Daulyte-Cornette

Deimantė Daulytė-Cornette grew up in Šiauliai and learned chess from her father at seven. She trained at the city's Dubysa sports school with several Lithuanian coaches. She won the Lithuanian Women's Championship in 2006, 2007 and 2008. FIDE awarded her the woman grandmaster title in 2009. Two more national championships followed in 2012 and 2013, and she became an international master in 2014. She won the Mediterranean Flower tournament in Rijeka in 2015. Her international club career included Britain's Celtic Tigers, China's Chengdu team and Ajoblanco Extremadura in Spain. Alongside chess, she studied at Šiauliai University and Mykolas Romeris University in Vilnius. She married French grandmaster Matthieu Cornette in 2016. She began representing France in 2021.