Anton Smirnov (chess player)

Anton Vladimirovich Smirnov (born 28 January 2001) is an Australian chess player.

He has represented his country in the Chess Olympiad in 2014 in Tromsø, Norway and in 2016 in Baku, Azerbaijan.

In September 2017 Smirnov played in the 2nd Capablanca Memorial in Crete, where he scored 7/9 points and earned his third and final norm required for the Grandmaster title.

[1] In 2018 Smirnov won the Australasian Masters tournament in Melbourne with a 2700+ performance, represented Australia on board one at the Batumi Olympiad, finished 2nd at the Australian Championship in Sydney, and finished 2nd (behind Temur Kuybokarov) in the Gold Coast Open with 7/9 beating Zhao Zong Yuan and Max Illingworth.

[3] Anton's father, Vladimir Nikolaevich Smirnov (born 1974), is also a chess player with the title of International Master[5][6] and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Sydney.