(1974-06-02) June 2, 1974 (age 49) Novokuznetsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Title
Grandmaster (1990)
FIDE rating
2616 (May 2024)
Peak rating
2763 (July 2013)
Peak ranking
No. 4 (July 1995)
Gata Kamsky (Tatar: Гата Камский; Russian: Гата Камский; born June 2, 1974) is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster, and a five-time U.S. champion.
Kamsky reached the final of the FIDE World Chess Championship 1996 at the age of 22, and reached a ranking of fourth in the world rankings in 1995.[1] He played almost no FIDE-rated games between 1997 and late 2004.
Kamsky won the Chess World Cup 2007. This earned him a Candidates Match against Veselin Topalov, which he lost.[2] Kamsky also competed in the Candidates Tournament in 2011, losing to Boris Gelfand.
^"FIDE Rankings 1970–1997". Chess.eusa.ed.ac.uk. Archived from the original on November 26, 2009. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
^"World Chess Challenge Sofia 2009 – Veselin Topalov vs Gata Kamsky". Archived from the original on February 20, 2009. Retrieved December 24, 2019. World Chess Challenge 2009
GataKamsky (Tatar: Гата Камский; Russian: Гата Камский; born June 2, 1974) is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster, and a five-time U.S. champion...
the Chess Olympiad at Turin, Italy, playing on the third board behind GataKamsky and 2006 U.S. Champion Alexander Onischuk. In the same year, he won the...
Cup 2007. The 2007 Chess World Cup was won by GataKamsky. The Challenger Match between Topalov and Kamsky took place in February 2009 in Sofia. Topalov...
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Viswanathan Anand in the PCA World Chess Championship 1995. Karpov defeated GataKamsky in the final of the FIDE World Chess Championship 1996. Negotiations...
grandmasters Ahmed Adly and Elshan Moradiabadi and drew with Richard Rapport, GataKamsky and Mustafa Yilmaz. Nihal made his debut at the Isbank Turkish Super...
games, including a win against former world championship challenger GataKamsky. This gained Firouzja enough rating to surpass So on the January 2024...
the Challenger Match would then be the official challenger to Anand. GataKamsky earned the right to play in the Challenger Match by winning the Chess...
Alexander Riazantsev in the second round in tiebreaks, but he lost to GataKamsky in the third round in tiebreaks. In November 2011, Nepomniachtchi tied...
Ruslan Ponomariov in the final. The winner of the Chess World Cup 2007, GataKamsky, was defeated by Wesley So in the third round. Matches consisted of two...
Kramnik and Fabiano Caruana, and more frequently by players such as GataKamsky, Levon Aronian and Magnus Carlsen. During the 21st century the London...
won against Joël Lautier and Vladimir Malakhov before losing again to GataKamsky. Carlsen finished in tenth place and became the youngest player to be...
2012–2013" held in Thessaloniki, Greece, Caruana shared second place with GataKamsky, behind the winner, Leinier Domínguez Pérez. In June at the eighth edition...
If tied after the specified number of games (which happened only in the Kamsky-Anand match), rapid chess games were played as tie breaks. The format was...
he lost a quarterfinal candidates match for the PCA championship to GataKamsky 1½–4½, and later that year, lost a semifinal candidates match for the...
unsuccessfully defended the World Rapid Chess title, losing to eventual champion GataKamsky. In September 2010, Aronian played in the preliminary stage of the Bilbao...
online Blitz Chess tournament featuring players such as Magnus Carlsen, GataKamsky, RameshBabu Praggnanandhaa, Parham Maghsoodloo, David Antón Guijarro...
Hungarian player (1999–2021, since 2022) Soviet Union United States GataKamsky 2763 2013-07 1974 Formerly highest-ranked American player (2008–2010)...
Nakamura, and Fabiano Caruana. The other tournament participants included GataKamsky, Varuzhan Akobian, Alexander Shabalov, Alexander Onischuk, Aleksandr...
score of 7/7 and a victory over former FIDE World Championship finalist GataKamsky. Firouzja competed in the Tata Steel Masters in January. He placed fifth...
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