Axel Smith (chess player)

This article is about the chess player. For other people named Axel Smith, see Axel Smith (disambiguation).

Axel Smith (born 27 June 1986) is a Swedish chess player and author.

Axel Smith
Country	Sweden
Born	27 June 1986 (1986-06-27) (age 39) Ystad, Sweden
Title	Grandmaster (2016)
FIDE rating	2431 (July 2025)
Peak rating	2516 (August 2016)

Smith earned the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 2016.^[1]

He is the author or co-author of several chess books including Pump Up Your Rating (Quality Chess, 2013) and The Woodpecker Method (Quality Chess, 2018).