Bryan Garrett Smith is an American

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grandmaster.

Chess career

Smith grew up in

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. He earned the

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title in January 2007. In May 2011, he earned a Grandmaster

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in the LIMPEDEA Cup in Romania by winning the tournament. In March 2013, he tied for first place with GM Mikheil Kekelidze in the open section of the 35th Annual Marchand held in

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. He was awarded the Grandmaster title later in 2013. In November 2017, he won the 48th National Chess Congress held in

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. The event had 7 other Grandmasters, and Smith was rated over 200 points lower than the top seeded players. During the tournament, Smith defeated

Alexander Shabalov Alexander Anatolyevich Shabalov (russian: Алекса́ндр Анато́льевич Шаба́лов; lv, Aleksandrs Šabalovs; born September 12, 1967) is an American chess grandmaster and a four-time winner of the United States Chess Cha ...

in an upset and drew against

Alexey Dreev Alexey Sergeyevich Dreev (, also transliterated as Aleksey or Alexei; born 30 January 1969) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1989. Career While being a promising young chess talent, he was for a period ...

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