Pavel Smirnov
{{short description|Russian chess grandmaster (born 1982)}}
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|name = Pavel Smirnov
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|country = {{RUS}}
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1982|4|14|df=y}}
|birth_place = Mezhdurechensk, Kemerovo Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
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|title = Grandmaster (2003)
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|peakrating = 2645 (January 2005)
|peakranking = No. 51 (January 2005)
|FideID = 4123425
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Pavel Smirnov ({{langx|ru|Павел Смирнов}}; born 27 April 1982 in Mezhdurechensk)[https://ratings.fide.com/title_applications.phtml?details=1&id=4123425&title=GM&pb=3 GM title application] FIDE[http://open2007.moscowchess.org/2007/mediaeng.html Moscow Open 2007] is a Russian chess Grandmaster.
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.{{cite web|last1=Bartelski|first1=Wojciech|title=1st Russia-China match: Shanghai 2001|url=http://www.olimpbase.org/2001rc/2001in.html|publisher=OlimpBase|accessdate=1 October 2015}} Smirnov finished runner-up in the 2002 Russian Chess Championship.{{cite web|last1=Crowther|first1=Mark|title=TWIC 410: Russian Chess Championships|url=http://www.theweekinchess.com/html/twic410.html#7|publisher=The Week in Chess|date=16 September 2002|accessdate=30 September 2015}}
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{{cite web|last1=Crowther|first1=Mark|title=TWIC 514: 3rd Instanbul Chess Festival|url=http://www.theweekinchess.com/html/twic514.html#3|publisher=The Week in Chess|date=13 September 2004|accessdate=30 September 2015}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.chessib.com/revcnov4.html|title=The review of chess events and sites for November, 2004|publisher=Chess Siberia|last=Schipkov|first=Boris|accessdate=18 May 2010}}
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{{cite web|url=http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3856|title=Tomsk wins the Russian Team Championships|date=2007-05-13|publisher=ChessBase|accessdate=18 May 2010}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3655|title=Illya Nyzhnyk wins Group B in Moscow Open|date=2007-02-07|publisher=ChessBase|accessdate=18 May 2010}} In 2010 he tied for 1st–4th with Sergei Yudin, Semen Dvoirys and Sergei Iskusnyh in Pavlodar.{{cite web|url=http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=54892|title=Pavlodar-open 2010|publisher=FIDE|accessdate=4 May 2011}}
In 2013 Smirnov won the 5th Baku Open.{{cite web|title=Pavel Smirnov Wins Baku Open|url=http://chess-news.ru/en/node/13474|website=chess-news.ru|date=27 September 2013|accessdate=1 October 2015}}{{cite web|title=Pavel Smirnov clear first in Baku Open|url=http://www.chessdom.com/pavel-smirnov-clear-first-in-baku-open/|publisher=Chessdom|date=27 September 2013|accessdate=30 September 2015}}
Notable games
- [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1496260 Pavel Smirnov vs Andrei Belozerov, RUS-Cup03 2002, Spanish Game: Morphy Defense (C72), 1-0]
- [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1292325 Pavel Smirnov vs Levon Aronian, FIDE World Championship 2004, Spanish Game: Berlin Defense, (C67), 1-0]
References
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External links
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Category:Russian chess players
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