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Gata Kamsky
American chess grandmaster (born 1974) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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Full name | Gataulla Rustemovich Kamsky |
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Born | (1974-06-02) June 2, 1974 (age 50) Novokuznetsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Title | Grandmaster (1990) |
FIDE rating | 2615 (July 2024) |
Peak rating | 2763 (July 2013) |
Peak ranking | No. 4 (July 1995) |
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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.