Gata Kamsky

Gata Kamsky is a Crimean Tatar born on June 2, 1974 in Siberia. Before 1989, he won the Soviet under-20 championship twice. In 1989, he moved to the United States with his father Rst m. In 1990, he became a chess grandmaster and won the U.S. Chess Championship in 1991.

Kamsky also did well in prestigious chess tournaments. At the SKA Biel Interzonal in 1993, he finished in 2nd place. He also won the Las Palmas tournament in 1994. For a time in the early 1990s, he was widely regarded as Judit Polgar's main rival as the most promising chess prodigy. In 1996, he played a 20 game match against Anatoly Karpov for the World Chess CHampionship at Elista in Kalmykia. He lost with a score of 7.5 to Karpov's 10.5. After losing this match he gave up chess to study law.

Kamsky did not play anymore rated games until 1999, when he played in the FIDE Knockout World Championship in Las Vegas. He played a two game match against Alexander Khalifman, and won the 1st game, lost the 2nd game, and then lost the rapid play-off games. He did not play another game in public until June 15, 2004, when he played in the 106th New York Masters, playing four games in a day with a time control of 30 minutes for all his moves. His two wins and two draws were good enough to be one of five players tied for 1st place. He subsequently played in several other editions of the weekly event with mixed success, before returning to slow chess in the 2005 U.S. Championship held in November-December 2004 where he scored a respectable but unspectacular 5.5/9. On the July 2005 FIDE rating list, he had a rating of 2700 and ranked 18th in the world.

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