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

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in 2017.

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

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in Tromsø, Norway and in

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, 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. Smirnov played in the

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, 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. 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

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) in the Gold Coast Open with 7/9 beating Zhao Zong Yuan and

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FIDE ratings

Personal life

Anton's father, Vladimir Nikolaevich Smirnov (born 1974), is also a chess player with the title of

International Master FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...

and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Sydney. Anton has a younger brother, Timofey.

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Smirnov, Anton 2001 births Living people Australian chess players Australian people of Russian descent Chess grandmasters Chess Olympiad competitors People from Canberra