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The Top Chess Players in the World

GM Ilya Smirin

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

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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
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