Anton Smirnov (chess player)

Anton Smirnov
Country Australia
Born (2001-01-28) 28 January 2001
Canberra, Australia[1]
Title Grandmaster (2017)
FIDE rating 2549 (October 2018)

Anton Vladimirovich Smirnov (Russian: Анто́н Влади́мирович Смирно́в, born 28 January 2001) is an Australian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster (GM) by FIDE in 2017.[2]

Chess career

Smirnov was the Australian junior champion in 2014 and won the Australian Grand Prix in 2015. He has represented his country in the Chess Olympiad in 2014 in Tromsø, Norway and in 2016 in Baku, Azerbaijan. In the Tromsø Chess Olympiad he was undefeated playing on board 5 and scored 7½/9 points. In the Baku Chess Olympiad he was undefeated again, this time on board 4 scoring 8½/10 points. He also achieved 20-game norm for the title Grandmaster.[1]

Smirnov played in the Chess World Cup 2017, where, after drawing the 2 classical games against the 2016 World Championship challenger Sergey Karjakin, he was eliminated in the rapidplay tiebreaks.

In September 2017 Smirnov played in the 2nd Capablanca Memorial in Crete, where he scored 7/9 points and earned his third and final norm required for the Grandmaster title.[1]

In 2018 Smirnov finished 2nd in the Gold Coast Open with 7/9 beating Zhao Zong Yuan and Max Illingworth.

Personal life

Anton's father, Vladimir Nikolaevich Smirnov (b. 1974), is also a chess player with the title of International Master[3][4] and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Sydney.[5] Anton has a younger brother, Timofey.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Title applications - 88th FIDE Congress 2017, Goynuk, Antalya, Turkey. FIDE.
  2. ↑ "List of titles approved by the Executive Board in Antalya, Turkey". www.fide.com. 2017-10-17. Retrieved 2017-12-12.
  3. ↑ Satrapa, James (23 June 2014). "Profile of a prodigy: Anton Smirnov". Chess News. ChessBase.
  4. ↑ Vladimir Smirnov, rating card at FIDE
  5. ↑ Associate Professor Vladimir Smirnov, School of Economics, University of Sydney
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