Career
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 Street 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.