| Anton Smirnov | |
|---|---|
 Smirnov at Tata Steel Chess Tournament, 2020 | |
| Full name | Anton Vladimirovich Smirnov |
| Country | Australia |
| Born | 28 January 2001 Canberra, Australia [1] |
| Title | Grandmaster (2017) |
| FIDE rating | 2586 (May 2024) |
| Peak rating | 2604 (January 2020) |
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]
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]
|
Anton's father, Vladimir Nikolaevich Smirnov (born 1974), is also a chess player with the title of International Master [5] [6] and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Sydney. [7] Anton has a younger brother, Timofey.
Mark Callano Paragua is a Filipino chess grandmaster. He won the Philippine Chess Championship in 2012. He was the youngest Filipino master ever, at nine years of age. He also became the youngest Filipino GM ever at 20, beating Eugenio Torre's record by about two years.
Anton Sergiyovych Korobov is a Ukrainian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2003. Korobov is a four-time Ukrainian champion. He was voted the best male chess player of Ukraine of 2012.
Gong Qianyun is a Singaporean chess player and holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
Eugenio "Eugene" Torre is a Filipino chess grandmaster. In 1974, at 22 years old, he became the first Filipino and non-Soviet Asian to qualify for the title Grandmaster. Torre did this by winning the silver medal in the 21st Chess Olympiad in Nice, France. He is considered the strongest chess player the Philippines produced during the 1980s and 1990s, and played for the Philippines on board 1 in seventeen Chess Olympiads. In 2021, Torre was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame.
Buenaventura "Bong" Mendieta Villamayor is a Filipino chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2000, becoming the fourth from the Philippines to achieve this feat.
Jorge Moisés Cori Tello is a Peruvian chess grandmaster. A former chess prodigy, he was twice world champion and four-time Pan American champion in his age category. Cori competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2011, 2013, 2017, 2019 and 2021. He has played for the Peruvian team in the Chess Olympiad since 2010.
Oliver Barbosa is a Filipino chess grandmaster. He earned his International Master title in 2008 and his grandmaster title in 2011. Barbosa won the 10th Parsvnath International Grandmasters Tournament in New Delhi, with 9.5/11 and an astounding Tournament Performance Rating (TPR) of 2710. By winning the said tournament, he also raised his ELO Live Rating from 2573 to 2627 as he gained 53.8 ELO rating points to become the Philippines 3rd Super GM. He earned his first GM norm in the Asian Individual in Mashad, Iran and his second norm in the Philippines National Championships. In 2014, he tied for 1st–2nd with Francisco Vallejo Pons in the Thailand Open Chess Championship.
Max Illingworth is an Australian former chess player, and current chess trainer and writer. In 2022 he started playing poker professionally. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2016, becoming the fifth Australian to achieve this. Illingworth won the Steiner Medal in 2011, 2012 and 2015. His current FIDE rating is 2493. He retired from competitive chess in 2019, to concentrate on coaching and writing.
Anton Kovalyov is a Ukrainian-born Canadian chess grandmaster. He has been a team member for Argentina and subsequently Canada at Chess Olympiads.
Ottomar Ladva is an Estonian chess player and grandmaster. He is a four-time Estonian Chess Champion.
Julio Catalino Sadorra is a Filipino chess grandmaster. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2017 where he was seeded 101 and where he lost to the 28th-seeded Super GM Maxim Matlakov, 0.5-1.5. Sadorra has represented the Philippines at the Chess Olympiad since 2014. He tied for first place in the U.S. Open Chess Championship in 2013.
Vladislav Vladimirovich Kovalev is a Belarusian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster. He was Belarusian Chess Champion in 2016.
Yusup Atabayev is a Turkmenistani chess grandmaster.
Aman Hambleton is a Canadian chess grandmaster and Twitch/Kick streamer. He is a member of the Chessbrahs, along with other grandmasters such as Eric Hansen (founder), Robin van Kampen, and Yasser Seirawan.
Emir Dizdarević, is a Bosnian chess Grandmaster (GM) (1988) who was representing Croatia from 2006 to 2008, two-times Bosnia and Herzegovina Chess Championship winner and a Chess Olympiad team silver medalist (1994).
Dragiša Blagojević is a Montenegrin chess player who holds the title of Grandmaster (GM) (2004), six-times Montenegrin Chess Championship winner, Chess Olympiad individual gold medal winner (2008).
Nikola Sedlak is a Serbian chess player who holds the titles of Grandmaster (GM) (2003), Serbian Chess Championship winner (2010), Chess Olympiad individual gold medal winner (2014), and EU Individual Open Chess Championship winner (2007).
John Paul Gomez is a Filipino chess player. He was awarded the title of International Master (IM) in 2007 and International Grandmaster (GM) in 2009. He is a three-time Filipino national junior champion and has also won the Filipino Chess Championship.
Tin Jingyao is a Singaporean chess grandmaster. He is a five-time winner of the Singapore Chess Championship and represented Singapore in the Chess Olympiad in 2014 and 2016.
Vladimir Hamițevici is a Moldovan chess player who holds the title of Grandmaster. He two times won Moldovan Chess Championship.
