In addition, chess can also be played under “timed conditions.”This means that the entire game will be played within a fixed time, whoever exceeds the time limit prior to declaring a “checkmate” will ultimately lose the game. The game has to continue until one king ends up in a “checkmate” situation, or the game is drawn, or until one player chooses to withdraw. Even if moving a piece is detrimental, you must make a move, or else the game won’t continue. At every turn, players must make a move it is against the rules to skip a move. The player with the white chess pieces is “white,” and the player with the black pieces is “black.” The first rule is that the white player makes the first move. One plays the white pieces, and the other controls the black ones. How To Play Chess For Beginners How The Game of Chess Works (Beginner break down)

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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. 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. Smirnov played in the Chess World Cup 2017, where, after drawing the 2 classical games against the 2016 World Championship challenger Sergey Karjakin, he was eliminated in the rapidplay tiebreaks. He also achieved 20-game norm for the title Grandmaster. In the Baku Chess Olympiad he was undefeated again, this time on board 4 scoring 8½/10 points. In the Tromsø Chess Olympiad he was undefeated playing on board 5 and scored 7½/9 points.

He has represented his country in the Chess Olympiad in 2014 in Tromsø, Norway and in 2016 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Smirnov was the Australian junior champion in 2014 and won the Australian Grand Prix in 2015.

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