CHESS PLAYER

Ilya Smirin

1968 - Today

Photo of Ilya Smirin

Icon of person Ilya Smirin

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 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2024). Ilya Smirin is the 303rd most popular chess player (down from 280th in 2024), the 239th most popular biography from Belarus (down from 234th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Belarusian Chess Player.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Ilya Smirin by language

Loading...

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Ilya Smirin ranks 303 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.

Most Popular Chess Players in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Ilya Smirin ranks 722. Before him are Terry Notary, Deborah S. Jin, Peter Webber, Chen Yueling, Sebastian Schipper, and Sergio Porrini. After him are Penny Wong, Markus Schmidt, Bettina Stark-Watzinger, Annegret Strauch, Firmin Ngrébada, and Lavinia Agache.

Others Born in 1968

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Ilya Smirin ranks 239 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 Viktor Khrenin (1971).

Others born in Belarus

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

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), Sergei Azarov (1983), and Vladislav Kovalev (1994).

Belarusian born Chess Players

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous