From the late 1930s to the early 1950s she was known as one of the strongest chess players in Lithuania. She participated in the pre-war chess tournaments under the surname of her first husband. In 1938, she won the first Lithuanian Women's Chess Championship. In 1939 she participated in the Women's World Chess Championship in Buenos Aires and took 18th place (tournament was won by Vera Menchik). After World War II, she continued to participate in chess tournaments. In 1948, she represented the team of the Lithuanian SSR in the Soviet Team Chess Championship. In 1949, she won the second Lithuanian Women's Chess Championship. Then three years in a row she became the bronze medalist of this tournament (1950, 1951, 1952).