Pavel Smirnov

Pavel Smirnov (Russian: Павел Смирнов; born 27 April 1982 in Mezhdurechensk)[1][2] is a Russian chess Grandmaster.

Pavel Smirnov
Country Russia
Born (1982-04-14) 14 April 1982
Mezhdurechensk, Kemerovo Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
TitleGrandmaster (2003)
FIDE rating2538 (October 2023)
Peak rating2645 (January 2005)
Peak rankingNo. 51 (January 2005)

Chess career

In 2001 he was a member of the Russian junior team in the first China vs Russia match that took place in Shanghai.[3] Smirnov finished runner-up in the 2002 Russian Chess Championship.[4]

In 2004 Smirnov reached the fourth round of the FIDE World Chess Championship, where he lost to Teimour Radjabov and therefore was eliminated from the competition. He knocked out in the previous rounds Lázaro Bruzón, Abobker Elarbi, and Levon Aronian. In the same year he came first in the 8th World University Chess Championship in Istanbul[5] and in the Tigran Petrosian Memorial in Yerevan; Smirnov won the latter scoring 7.5 points out of 9, half point ahead of Vassily Ivanchuk.[6]

He competed in the Chess World Cup 2005, where he was eliminated in the first round by Dmitry Bocharov.

In 2007 he played for Tomsk-400 team that won the Russian Team Chess Championship[7] and tied for 3rd–9th with Dmitry Svetushkin, Vladimir Malakhov, Evgeny Vorobiov, Murtas Kazhgaleyev, Vladimir Dobrov and Aleksej Aleksandrov in the 3rd Moscow Open tournament.[8] In 2010 he tied for 1st–4th with Sergei Yudin, Semen Dvoirys and Sergei Iskusnyh in Pavlodar.[9] In 2013 Smirnov won the 5th Baku Open.[10][11]

Notable games

References
  1. GM title application FIDE
  2. Moscow Open 2007
  3. Bartelski, Wojciech. "1st Russia-China match: Shanghai 2001". OlimpBase. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
  4. Crowther, Mark (16 September 2002). "TWIC 410: Russian Chess Championships". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
  5. Crowther, Mark (13 September 2004). "TWIC 514: 3rd Instanbul Chess Festival". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
  6. Schipkov, Boris. "The review of chess events and sites for November, 2004". Chess Siberia. Retrieved 18 May 2010.
  7. "Tomsk wins the Russian Team Championships". ChessBase. 2007-05-13. Retrieved 18 May 2010.
  8. "Illya Nyzhnyk wins Group B in Moscow Open". ChessBase. 2007-02-07. Retrieved 18 May 2010.
  9. "Pavlodar-open 2010". FIDE. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
  10. "Pavel Smirnov Wins Baku Open". chess-news.ru. 27 September 2013. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
  11. "Pavel Smirnov clear first in Baku Open". Chessdom. 27 September 2013. Retrieved 30 September 2015.


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