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Gata Kamsky was born on June 2, 1974 in Novokuznetsk in Russia, in a Tatar family. Gata Kamsky was a Chess Prodigy; he won the Soviet under-20 championship twice before 1989 (i.e. before leaving go away from Russia); at the same period Kamsky won, in a tournament game, against legendary Grandmaster Marc Taimanov and obtained the Russian National Master title. In 1989, when he was aged 15, Gata Kamsky moved to the United States with his father Röstäm (Rustam). In 1990, while aged 16 and still untitled, he played in the 64-player Interzonal tournament, the first step towards the World Chess Championship; he finished scoring 5.5 /13; the same year FIDE awarded Kamsky the Grandmaster title. Gata Kamsky won the U.S. Championship in 1991, confirming his position of US Chess player N° 1 but 1993 and three following years was still more significant in his career. In 1993 both organisations FIDE and PCA (Professional Chess Association) arranged concurrently an Interzonal Tournament. Gata Kamsky played twice and, in both competitions he was qualified for respective Candidates Tournaments. In Canditates matches, in 1994-95, Kamsky played a leading role conjointly with Viswanathan Anand. In the first round of the 1994-95 FIDE Candidates matches, Kamsky beat Paul van der Sterren (+3=3-1). Kamsky's quarter-final match against Anand, held in July and August 1994 in Sanghi Nagar, India, was more dramatic. The two first games was draws; then Anand won two games successively; after eight games the score was 4–4 (+2=4-2). Finally Kamsky won the match against Anand in a two rapid chess playoff games. In February 1995, in the semi-final, held also in Sanghi Nagar, Kamsky defeated without remission Valery Salov 5.5–1.5 (+4=3-0). We say nothing here about PCA Candidates matches. In 1996, Kamsky played a 20-game match against Anatoly Karpov for the FIDE World Chess Championship 1996 title at Elista in Kalmykia, losing 7.5–10.5 (+3=9-6). After losing the match against Karpov, Kamsky gave up chess. One could think it was practically the end of his career. But Gata made a surprising come back in 2004. On June 15, 2004 Gata Kamsky, when he participated in the 106th New York Masters. On November-December 2004, in the 2005 U.S. Chess Championship, held in San Diego, California, Kamsky's score was not spectacular. Gata Kamsky was rated number 19 in the world on the April 2005 FIDE Elo rating list, at 2700. Kamsky reached the second place behind Veselin Topalov at the 2005 M-Tel Masters event. Kamsky led the US team to the bronze medal at the 37th International Chess Olympiad, Turin 2006. A number of successes in 2007 marked his true return to the playing level he had before his retirement and make plausible the pesrpective for Kamsky to become again a challenger for the very top of the world's chess hierarchy. Playing in the 2005 FIDE World Cup Tournament, Gata Kamsky got the qualification for the Candidates Tournament for the FIDE World Chess Championship 2007 (May-June 2007). First Kamsky won his round match against Étienne Bacrot (+3-0=1), but was eliminated in second round match againsts Boris Gelfand by the clear score of +0-2=3. In November-December 2007, Kamsky won the Chess World Cup 2007. In the final match he defeated Alexei Shirov (+1-0=3). This success allows him to encounter Veselin Topalov, in 2009, in a match which will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, for the right to challenge the current World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand. With a Rating of 2725, in the FIDE-ratings list of January 2009, Kamsky is currently number 17 in the world and the 8th best ranked player taking part in the Corus Chess 2009.
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