Gata Kamsky (Tatar:Ğataulla Kamski) (born June 2, 1974) is an American chess grandmaster. At one point he was the third highest rated player in the world, but played no FIDE-rated games between 1999 and late 2004. Gata Kamsky, Chess Player File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The Tatar language (Tatar tele, Tatarça) is an Turkic language belonging to the Altaic branch of the Ural-Altaic family of languages. ... 2 June is the 153rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (154th in leap years), with 212 days remaining. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... Many countries claim to have invented the chess game in some incipient form. ... The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national chess federations around the world. ...

Kamsky is a Crimean Tatar, born in the Soviet Union. He won the Soviet Under-20 championship twice before 1989. In 1989 he moved to the United States with his father Röstäm. His father has been described by some chess players as blustery. For Crimean Tatar ethos see Crimean Tatars For Crimean Tatar language and alphabet see Crimean Tatar language ...

In 1990 Kamsky became a chess grandmaster. In 1991 he won the US Championship. He also did well at prestigious chess tournaments. He placed second at the SKA Biel Interzonal in 1993. He won the Las Palmas tournament in 1994. The title International Grandmaster is awarded to world-class chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain. ... See also: U.S. Womens Chess Championship Winner list: 2005 Hikaru Nakamura 2004 Alexander Shabalov 2003 Alexander Shabalov 2002 Larry Christiansen 2000 Joel Benjamin / Alexander Shabalov / Yasser Seirawan 1999 Boris Gulko 1998 Nick de Firmian 1997 Joel Benjamin 1996 Alex Yermolinsky 1995 Nick de Firmian / Patrick Wolff / Alexander Ivanov...

In 1996 Kamsky played in the World Chess Championship at Elista in Kalmykia. He lost the 20-game match to Anatoly Karpov with a score of to 7.5 to Karpov's 12.5 (Karpov had mathematically won the match after the 18th game, so play was halted). After losing this match he announced he was giving up chess and going to study medicine. The 1984 World Chess Championship was between Anatoly Karpov (left) and Garry Kasparov (right). ... Categories: Russia geography stubs | Cities in Russia ... The Republic of Kalmykia (Russian: Респу́блика Калмы́кия; Kalmyk: Хальм Тангч) is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). ... Anatoli Karpov Anatoli Yevgenyevich Karpov (Анато́лий Евге́ньевич Ка́рпов) (born May 23, 1951) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. ...

Kamsky did not play any rated games after that except in 1999, when he returned to play in the World Championship. He played a two game match against Alexander Khalifman in Las Vegas. Kamsky won the first game, lost the second game, and then lost the play-off game. The ELO rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess and Go. ... Alexander Valeryevich Khalifman (born January 18, 1966) is a Russian chess player. ... This article is about the city of Las Vegas in Nevada. ...

He did not play another game in public until June 15, 2004, when he participated 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 enough for him to be one of five players tied for first place. He subsequently played in several other editions of the weekly event with mixed success, before returning to slow chess in the 2005 US Championship held in November-December 2004 where he scored a respectable but unspectacular 5.5/9. His subsequent return to the April 2005 FIDE Elo rating list saw him at number nineteen in the world, with a rating of 2700. The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national chess federations around the world. ... The ELO rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess and Go. ...

External links

• The chess games of Gata Kamsky
• 30 crucial positions from his games