Anton Smirnov (chess player)

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

Anton Smirnov
Anton Smirnov at Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2020
CountryAustralia
Born (2001-01-28) 28 January 2001
Canberra, Australia[1]
TitleGrandmaster (2017)
FIDE rating2597 (February 2021)

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 won the Australasian Masters tournament in Melbourne with a 2700+ performance, represented Australia on board one at the Batumi Olympiad, finished 2nd at the Australian Championship in Sydney, and finished 2nd (behind Temur Kuybokarov) in the Gold Coast Open with 7/9 beating Zhao Zong Yuan and Max Illingworth.[3]

Personal life

Anton's father, Vladimir Nikolaevich Smirnov (b. 1974), is also a chess player with the title of International Master[4][5] and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Sydney.[6] Anton has a younger brother, Timofey.

References
  1. 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. 17 October 2017. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  3. Gold Coast Open crosstable, ChessChat.org, 2 July 2018.
  4. Satrapa, James (23 June 2014). "Profile of a prodigy: Anton Smirnov". Chess News. ChessBase.
  5. Vladimir Smirnov, rating card at FIDE
  6. Associate Professor Vladimir Smirnov, School of Economics, University of Sydney
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