Ilya Smirin

Ilya Smirin

Ilya (or Ilia) Yulievich Smirin (Hebrew: איליה יוליביץ' סמירין; Russian: Илья Юльевич Смирин; born January 21, 1968, in Vitebsk, Belarus) is a Soviet-Israeli chess Grandmaster. As of January 2012, his Elo rating was 2660, making him the 86th-highest rated player in the world. Smirin's peak rating was 2702 in July 2001, making him one of the elite few grandmasters to achieve a 2700+ rating.

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