GM Ilya Smirin Photo: Maria Emelianova/Chess.com. Full name Ilia Smirin Born Jan 12, 1968 (age 58) Place of birth Federation Israel Profiles # World Ranking 2563 Classical 2478 Rapid 2508 Blitz 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 (2564) Konstantin Zalkind (2026) 1-0 32 2026 Ilya Smirin (2564) Ido Ben Artzi (2339) 1-0 25 2026 Ilya Smirin (2564) Giora Steiner-Prozhanski (2314) 1-0 24 2026 Ilya Smirin (2564) Yuval Yaniv (2462) 1-0 33 2026 Ilya Smirin (2564) Eliran Shilon Rahav (2367) 1-0 58 2026 Ilya Smirin (2564) Reem Sherman (2354) ½-½ 26 2026 Ilya Smirin (2564) Shaked Tifferet (2322) ½-½ 49 2026 Evgeny Alekseev (2504) Ilya Smirin (2564) 1-0 30 2026 Oleg Gladyszev (2348) Ilya Smirin (2564) 0-1 48 2026 Eytan Rozen (2506) Ilya Smirin (2563) 0-1 27 2026 Show All Games