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Sergey Smagin

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Country
  
Russia

FIDE rating
  
2551

Role
  
Chess Player


Name
  
Sergey Smagin

Title
  
Grandmaster (1985)

Peak rating
  
2613

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Full name
  
Sergey Smagin (Sergei Smagin)

Born
  
September 8, 1958 (age 65) Norilsk, USSR (
1958-09-08
)

Sergey Smagin (born in Norilsk, 8 September 1958) is a Russian chess grandmaster.

He played in the Soviet championships of 1985 and 1986, obtaining his best result at Riga 1986, where he place 3rd-6th in a field of twenty.

His tournament successes include the following:

  • 1984 : first at Tashkent
  • 1985 : equal first at Dresden
  • 1986 : first at the 2nd Cappelle-la-Grande Open
  • 1987 : equal first at the Chigorin Memorial of St Petersburg with Evgeny Pigusov and Andrei Kharitonov; first at Trnava; equal first at Zenica; equal first at Sochi
  • 1988 : first at Berlin
  • 1993 : first at the Amantea open (repeated in 1994)
  • 2000 : equal first at Montreal with Eduardas Rozentalis

    • Smagin reached his peak Elo rating in April 2001, with 2613 points.

    He currently plays in the Russian team championship with the Club MCF Moskva.

    References

    Sergey Smagin Wikipedia
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