Anatolijs Šmits (September 2, 1941 – January 30, 1998), also known as Anatols Šmits or Anatoly Shmit, was a Latvian chess player.
Šmits won the Soviet Junior Championship in 1960[1] and was Latvian Chess Champion in 1969[2] and 1975.
[3] He also gained second place in Cup of USSR in 1970 (after David Bronstein).
[4] Šmits played for Latvia in Soviet team competitions: Šmits was an excellent teacher as exemplified by his coaching for the World Championship match of Nona Gaprindashvili against Nana Alexandria of Georgia at Pitsunda/Tbilisi 1975, which Nona Gaprindashvili won.
For this effort, Smits received a special prize in 1975 from the Georgian Chess Federation.