David Smerdon

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David Smerdon (2016)
Surname David Craig Smerdon
Association AustraliaAustralia Australia
Born September 17, 1984
Brisbane , Australia
title Grandmaster (2009)
Current  Elo rating 2508 (September 2020)
Best Elo rating 2533 (November 2016)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

David Craig Smerdon (born September 17, 1984 in Brisbane ) is an Australian chess player and holds the FIDE title of chess grandmaster .

Chess career

Smerdon achieved the title of Chess Grand Master (GM) in 2009. He achieved the required standards for the title at the Australian Chess Championships 2005, the 7th Bangkok Chess Club Open 2007, which he won with a score of 7.5 out of 9 and the Czech Open in Pardubice , Czech Republic , 2007. In July 2009, he was able to achieve the required Elo rating of 2500 as the last criterion for the grandmaster title. Smerdon is the fifth Australian after Walter Browne , Ian Rogers , Darryl Johansen and Zhao Zong-Yuan to achieve the title of grandmaster.

In 2009 he won the Oceania Chess Championships, qualifying for participation in the 2009 World Chess Cup . In this tournament he was eliminated against Leinier Domínguez in the first round.

Smerdon is in 3rd place in the Elo ranking of Australian chess players (as of January 2018). He has played with the Australian national team at the Chess Olympiads since 2004 .

Smerdon played club chess in the Dutch master class from 2006 to 2008 for the Schaakclub Utrecht as well as in the 2011/12 and 2013/14 seasons for the Bussums Schaakgenootschap , in the British Four Nations Chess League from 2006 to 2008 for The AD's and from 2011 to 2016 for the first and second team of Guildford A&DC , where he won the league with the first team in 2013 , 2014 and 2016 , and in the German Bundesliga from 2014 to 2017 for Werder Bremen .

Others

Smerdon studied at the University of Melbourne . In 2017 he received his PhD in economics from the Universiteit van Amsterdam and the Tinbergen Institute . He then became a lecturer at the University of Queensland .

Works

  • David Smerdon: Smerdon's Scandinavian . Everyman Chess, 2015, ISBN 978-1-78194-294-9 .
  • David Smerdon: The complete chess swindler . New in Chess , 2020, ISBN 978-90-56 / 91-911-5.

Web links

Commons : David Smerdon  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 25th Asian Junior Chess Championship . Tripod. Retrieved November 8, 2015.
  2. ^ William Campi: Strong juniors in the 7th Bangkok Chess Club Open . ChessBase. April 21, 2007.
  3. ↑ Title applications - 78th FIDE Congress, November 11-16, 2007, Antalya, Turkey . FIDE.
  4. ^ A b Shaun Press: Smerdon wins NSW Open . Chessexpress.blogspot.com. June 8, 2009. Retrieved December 16, 2011.
  5. ↑ a b 2009 Oceania Zonal, final round bulletin (PDF) Archived from the original on January 27, 2012. Retrieved on December 16, 2011.
  6. ↑ Oceania Zone Champions Oceania Chess Confederation
  7. ↑ 2009 Oceania Zonal, final rankings chess-results.com
  8. ↑ Mark Crowther: The Week in Chess: FIDE World Cup Mini-Site 2009 . Chess.co.uk. December 15, 2009. Archived from the original on October 20, 2011. Retrieved on December 16, 2011.
  9. ↑ FIDE: Elo ranking list of Australian chess players at the world association FIDE
  10. ↑ Olimpbase: David Smerdon
  11. ↑ Player Interviews: GM David Smerdon interviewed by FM Grant Szuveges . Melbourne Chess Club. Retrieved December 13, 2010.
  12. ↑ David C. Smerdon , curriculum vitae, accessed on August 2, 2020 (English)
  13. ^ University of Queensland: Dr David Smerdon, lecturer
personal data
SURNAME Smerdon, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smerdon, David Craig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Brisbane , Australia