Ilya Smirin
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Full name | Илья Смирин |
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Born | Vitebsk, Byelorussian SSR, USSR | January 21, 1968
Title | Grandmaster |
FIDE rating | 2575 (August 2024) (No. 53 on the August 2016 FIDE ratings list) |
Peak rating | 2702 (July 2001) |
Ilya (or Ilia) Yulievich Smirin (Hebrew: איליה יוליביץ' סמירין; Russian: Илья Юльевич Смирин; born January 21, 1968, in Vitebsk, Byelorussian SSR) is an Israeli chess Grandmaster.
Chess career
Smirin's chess career began in the Soviet Union. He was certified as a chess teacher by the Belorussian State Institute of Physical Culture in Minsk.[1] In 1992 he immigrated to Israel, and has since been one of the leading Israeli players at Chess Olympiads and other international events. He is a member of the Ashdod chess club and the Israel national team.
Smirin's tournament successes include equal first places at Sverdlovsk 1987, New York 1994, and the 2002 Israeli Championship.
He has also won the first league of the USSR Championship (1987, 1989), the Israel Championship (1992, 1994, 1999), and the qualifying tournaments for the 1994 and 1995 PCA World Grand Prix. In 2000, he won the prestigious New York Open and Dos Hermanas 2001.[2] In 2007 he won the Acropolis International at Athens, scoring 7/9 to take first by half a point.[3] In 2008 he tied for first with Evgeny Postny in Maalot-Tarshiha.[4]
He won a silver medal at the 2005 Maccabiah Games, and came in tied for fourth at the 2017 Maccabiah Games in Israel.[5][6]
His handle on the Internet Chess Club is "tapuax".[7]
In 2016, he published the critically acclaimed book, King's Indian Warfare.[8]
Notable games
Here Smirin, as Black, outplays the World Champion at the time:
Kramnik – Smirin, Russia (USSR) vs Rest of the World, Moscow 2002[9] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Be2 e5 7.O-O Nc6 8.d5 Ne7 9.b4 Nh5 10.Re1 a5 11.bxa5 f5 12.Nd2 Nf6 13.c5 Rxa5 14.cxd6 cxd6 15.a4 Bh6 16.Ba3 Bxd2 17.Qxd2 fxe4 18.Bb5 Bf5 19.h3 Ra8 20.g4 Bc8 21.Nxe4 Nxe4 22.Rxe4 Bd7 23.Bf1 Bxa4 24.Bb4 b5 25.Ra3 Rc8 26.Rc3 Qb6 27.Bg2 Rxc3 28.Bxc3 Bb3 29.Re1 Bc4 30.Ba5 Qb7 31.Rd1 Rf4 32.Bc3 Bb3 33.Bxe5 dxe5 34.d6 Qd7 35.Rc1 Bc4 36.Qb4 Nc8 37.Qc5 Nxd6 38.Qxe5 Rf8 39.Rd1 Nf7 0-1
References
- ^ Master Preparation
- ^ Events – ChessBase Archived 2007-04-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Ilya Smirin wins Acropolis 2007". ChessBase News. 26 August 2007. Retrieved 2008-04-10.
- ^ Crowther, Mark (2008-01-21). "TWIC 689: Maalot-Tarshiha". London Chess Center. Archived from the original on 30 September 2011. Retrieved 31 December 2009.
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- ^ "tapuax". Internet Chess Club. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
- ^ "King's Indian Warfare". Quality Chess. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
- ^ The chess games of Ilya Smirin
External links
- Ilya Smirin player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- OlimpBase
- 1968 births
- Living people
- People from Vitebsk
- Belarusian Jews
- Israeli Jews
- Belarusian emigrants to Israel
- Israeli people of Belarusian descent
- Chess grandmasters
- Chess Olympiad competitors
- Belarusian chess players
- Israeli chess players
- Soviet chess players
- Jewish chess players
- Competitors at the 2017 Maccabiah Games
- Maccabiah Games chess players
- Maccabiah Games competitors for Israel
- Maccabiah Games silver medalists for Israel