Anatolijs Šmits (September 2, 1941 – January 30, 1998), also known as Anatols Šmits or Anatoly Shmit, was a Latvian chess player.

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Šmits won the Soviet Junior Championship in 1960^[1] and was Latvian Chess Champion in 1969^[2] and 1975.^[3] He also gained second place in Cup of USSR in 1970 (after David Bronstein).^[4]

Šmits played for Latvia in Soviet team competitions:

• In 1960, at seventh board in 7th Soviet Team Chess Championship in Moscow (4,5 from 8);^[5]
• In 1961, at seventh board in 3rd Soviet Team Chess Cup in Moscow (+2, =2, -1);^[6]
• In 1967, at fourth board in 10th Soviet Team Chess Championship in Moscow (+3, =4, -2);^[7]
• In 1969, at third board in 11th Soviet Team Chess Championship in Grozny (5,5 from 8);^[8]
• In 1972, at fourth board in 12th Soviet Team Chess Championship in Moscow (+2, =4, -1);^[9]
• In 1975, at fourth board in 13th Soviet Team Chess Championship in Rīga (+2, =3, -2).^[10]

Šmits was an excellent teacher as exemplified by his coaching for the World Championship match of Nona Gaprindashvili against Nana Alexandria of Georgia at Pitsunda/Tbilisi 1975, which Nona Gaprindashvili won. For this effort, Smits received a special prize in 1975 from the Georgian Chess Federation.