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| Jan-21-07 | | BIDMONFA: Ilya Smirin SMIRIN, Ilia
http://www.bidmonfa.com/smirin_ilia...
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| Feb-22-07 | | geraldo8187: after the 2003 world open, this guy's uscf rating was 2816!!! |
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| Aug-23-07 | | Karpova: Smirin won a strong Open in Greece:
http://www.chessfed.gr/Acropolis200...
He scored 7/9 and won ahead of six players with 6.5 points (Kiril Georgiev, Malakhatko and Svetushkin were among them).
There were a lot of strong players like Rozentalis (6 points), Macieja (6 points), Kotronias (6 points), Chatalbashev (5 points), Graf (5 points) and our User: Yelena Dembo with 4.5 points against 2424 rating average |
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| Aug-26-07 | | Karpova: Chessbase report on the Acropolis International tournament:
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... |
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| Jan-10-08 | | cbpatzer: The Israel International Chess Championship is going on in Maalot-Tarshikhha, a Jewish-Arab town in the north of Israel. It is a strong category 15 round robin with 10 GMs from Israel, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, and Germany. After three rounds GM Ilia Smirin (winner of Acropolis Open 2007) and GM Evgeny Postny are top of the table with 2,5/3. Source: http://reports.chessdom.com/israel-... Offical site seems to be http://www.chess.org.il/ |
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| Aug-27-08 | | Karpova: Ilya Smirin won the 23rd Acropolis 2008 International Open Chess Tournament for the second consecutive year. The tournament took place at the President Hotel (43 Kifissias Avenue, "Europa" Hall) in Athens, Greece, from August 9th to 17th 2008. Smirin came in first with 7.0/9 only ahead of Romanian GM Mircea Parligras thanks to better Tie-Breaks (Smirin's oppoenents had an average rating of 2523, Parligras' ones of 2513). Other notable results:
IM Nana Dagnidze from Georgia came in third with 6.5/9 and made a GM norm (while her own rating is 2458 her opponents' rating average was 2449). IM Yelena Dembo reached 21st place with 5.5/9 (against rating average of 2374). Source: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... |
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| Dec-09-08 | | ellenliisbet: Why did Smirin not play the recent Olympiad? |
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| Jan-21-09 | | brankat: Happy Birthday GM Smirin! |
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| Jan-21-10 | | Alphastar: Happy birthday :-) |
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| Jan-21-10 | | Everett: One of the modern Knights of the KID. When even Kasparov was giving up on the opening because of the Bayonet Attack, Smirin and Radjabov was gaining wins as black. |
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| Jan-21-10 | | whiteshark: wiki-bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_S... |
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| Aug-16-14 | | Albertan: GM Smirin was recently interviewed by Da niel King. You can listen to the interview at https://www.youtube.com/watch?featu... |
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Jul-29-15
 | | Penguincw: Ilya Smirin the only perfect player remaining at Politiken Cup (2015), starting 6/6! In R7, he'll face Hammer with black. |
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| Jan-21-16 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, Player of the Day Ilya Smirin. |
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| Mar-07-16 | | notyetagm: Ilya Smirin A new book by Smirin is coming out from Quality Chess, of course on the King's Indian Defense: http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/blog/...
<I am also working on a book provisionally called (tongue in cheek) <<<King’s Indian Warfare by Ilya Smirin>>>. This will be a how-to-play book that supplements Kotronias’ five book series perfectly, by maybe the most creative grandmaster alive. The material is fantastic. The book will need some editing, but it is simply a remarkable draft.> |
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| Apr-26-16 | | Conrad93: <A new book by Smirin is coming out from Quality Chess, of course on the King's Indian Defense: http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/blog/...
<I am also working on a book provisionally called (tongue in cheek) <<<King’s Indian Warfare by Ilya Smirin>>>. This will be a how-to-play book that supplements Kotronias’ five book series perfectly, by maybe the most creative grandmaster alive. The material is fantastic. The book will need some editing, but it is simply a remarkable draft.>> This should be interesting. Gallagher also wrote a very good book on the KID, and I've heard Vigorito's two volume series is the cream of the crop. It will be interesting to see how the world expert on the KID compares to these two. P.S. Dejan Bojokov's Modernized: The King's Indian is an extremely good introduction. |
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May-21-16
 | | ketchuplover: Best wishes at the 2017 TataSteel event :) |
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| Nov-08-16 | | diagonal: For the cg. bio: <Ilya Smirin won at Biel in 2002>, clear first ahead of shared seconds Tkachiev, Dreev, followed by Korchnoi, winner from 2001, Pelletier, and Vallejo Pons: Game Collection: Biel 2002 |
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| Nov-08-16 | | diagonal: Ilya Smirin also <won the last edition of the famous New York Open series in 2000 outright>: http://theweekinchess.com/html/twic... |
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Jan-21-19
 | | offramp: The name <"il y a s'mir in"> is a complete sentence in French. |
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Sep-28-22
 | | MissScarlett: <A chess commentator has been sacked by the International Chess Federation for making sexist comments. Ilya Smirin was broadcasting live during the ninth round of the Women's Grand Prix on Tuesday. The Israeli grandmaster admitted on air he had said chess is "maybe not for women" - and also seemingly praised a woman for playing like a man. The federation apologised and called Mr Smirin's comments offensive and embarrassing. Belarusian-born Mr Smirin - who was once ranked one of the world's top 20 players - was making his debut as an English-language commentator in Astana, Kazakhstan.> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-63... |
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| Sep-28-22 | | Sally Simpson: Commentating on a women's event would be a minefield for any man, especially on their debut and not being media savvy. Saying a women played like a man was at one time meant as and to be taken as a compliment and I remember Smyslov saying Susan was Tal in a skirt. These days I'd fully accept being told I played a women, I've got a score book full of defeats by the...can we still say the 'fairer sex.' or is that taboo as well. I'd submit them but they are now all married and I do not know their married names... |
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| Sep-29-22 | | Whitehat1963: Oops! Looking for another job as a commentator already? |
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Sep-29-22
 | | Check It Out: May I suggest a different profession, perhaps construction? |
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| Sep-29-22 | | stone free or die: < 'fairer sex.' or is that taboo as well[?] > I would consider it more "dated" than "taboo", but apparently it's literally true... https://economictimes.indiatimes.co... |
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