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Ilya Smirin

1968 - Today

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Ilya (or Ilia) Smirin (Hebrew: איליה יוליביץ' סמירין; Belarusian: Ілля Юльевіч Смірын, romanized: Illa Juljevič Smiryn; Russian: Илья Юльевич Смирин, romanized: Ilya Yulievich Smirin; born January 21, 1968) is a Belarusian-Israeli chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1990. Champion of Israel in 1992, 2002 and 2023. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ilya Smirin is the 300th most popular chess player (down from 280th in 2019), the 234th most popular biography from Belarus and the 6th most popular Belarusian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Ilya Smirin ranks 300 out of 461. Before him are Alireza Firouzja, Hou Yifan, Sergei Movsesian, Gabriel Sargissian, Vidit Gujrathi, and Ekaterina Kovalevskaya. After him are Karen Asrian, Sergei Rublevsky, Atousa Pourkashiyan, R Vaishali, Elina Danielian, and Alexander Moiseenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Ilya Smirin ranks 672. Before him are Tomoaki Sano, Deborah S. Jin, Peter Webber, Chen Yueling, Sebastian Schipper, and Sergio Porrini. After him are Penny Wong, Bettina Stark-Watzinger, Firmin Ngrébada, Lavinia Agache, Jean-Christophe Rolland, and Rashid Sidek.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Ilya Smirin ranks 234 out of 368. Before him are Marina Lobatch (1970), Natalia Mishkutionok (1970), Aleksandr Kuschynski (1979), Oleg Novitsky (1971), Igor Lapshin (1963), and Sergei Gurenko (1972). After him are Krystsina Tsimanouskaya (1996), Vadim Devyatovskiy (1977), Ruslan Salei (1974), Gary Vaynerchuk (1975), Alyaksandr Khatskevich (1973), and Aliaksandra Herasimenia (1985).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Belarus

Among chess players born in Belarus, Ilya Smirin ranks 6. Before him are Dawid Janowski (1868), Lev Polugaevsky (1934), Boris Gelfand (1968), Viktor Kupreichik (1949), and Evgeny Agrest (1966). After him are Aleksej Aleksandrov (1973), Alexei Fedorov (1972), Yury Shulman (1975), Sergei Zhigalko (1989), and Sergei Azarov (1983).

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