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GM Ilya Smirin

Ilya Smirin

Photo: Maria Emelianova/Chess.com.

Full name

Ilia Smirin

Born

Jan 12, 1968 (age 56)‎

Place of birth

Federation

Israel

Rating

Bio

Bio coming soon.

Most Played Openings

White Pieces

Ruy López Opening: Morphy Defense, Closed, Pilnik Variation (40 games)

Sicilian Defense: Nyezhmetdinov-Rossolimo, Fianchetto Variation (38 games)

Ruy López Opening: Berlin Defense (36 games)

Caro-Kann Defense: Advance, Short Variation with 4.Nf3 (33 games)

French Defense: Tarrasch, Open, Euwe-Keres Line (30 games)

Black Pieces

Sicilian Defense: Kan, Modern, Polugaevsky Variation (58 games)

Sicilian Defense: Open, Classical, Richter-Rauzer Variation (36 games)

Alapin Sicilian Defense (33 games)

King's Indian Defense: Fianchetto, Karlsbad, Panno, Lesser Simagin Variation (33 games)

King's Indian Defense: Normal Variation (32 games)

Games

Players	Result	Moves	Year
Ilya Smirin (2582) Guy Gov (2127)	1-0	44	2024
Ilya Smirin (2582) Guy Levin	1-0	50	2024
Ilya Smirin (2584) Farid Tamer waguih (1985)	1-0	41	2024
Ilya Smirin (2584) Andreas Ciolek (2258)	1-0	26	2024
Ilya Smirin (2575) Addisalem Temesgen Tsige (2068)	1-0	35	2024
Ilya Smirin (2575) David Fitzsimons (2315)	1-0	46	2024
Ilya Smirin (2575) Dritan Mehmeti (2364)	1-0	43	2024
Ilya Smirin (2575) Omar Almeida Quintana (2492)	1-0	38	2024
Ilya Smirin (2513) Evgeny Postny (2473)	1-0	52	2024
Ilya Smirin (2517) Eyal Noy (2149)	1-0	21	2024

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