Gata Kamsky
Gata Kamsky (Russian Гата Рустемович Камский, former German transcription Gata Rustemowitsch Kamski, Tatar Гата Камский; born June 2, 1974 in Novokuznetsk ) is an American chess grandmaster with Tatar - Russian roots.
Early career
Kamsky is the son of a Tatar father and a Russian mother. After the divorce of his parents, a son came into the custody of his father, who settled with him in Leningrad. The age of eight Kamsky learned the game of chess. He early showed amazing talents, he was already classified as a six- year-old in the third class and played at this age already promising piano.
The age of twelve, he won the championship of the chess club Dynamo, which was attended by two grandmasters. 1987 ( twelve years old ), he won the USSR Junior Championship U18. In 1989 he emigrated at an Open tournament in New York together with his father in the United States. The Cold War was still going on, and therefore Western mass media reported extensively on the announced at a press conference decision of father and son Rustam Gata.
Kamsky's chess talent came in the early 1990s to advantage: 1990, after he had won the tournament tradition of Tilburg, FIDE awarded him the grandmaster title. In 1991 he was U.S. champion in Los Angeles. He qualified on the Interzonal 1993 Biel / Bienne for the candidate struggles of FIDE. In the same year he also succeeded in qualifying for the candidate struggles of the PCA in Groningen. In the FIDE World Championship cycle he got to the finals, which was the first time as FIDE world championship fight. He defeated Anatoly Karpov in Elista 1996 7,5:10,5 ( 3, -6, = 9). In PCA World Cup tournament, he lost the Candidates final in Las Palmas 1996 Viswanathan Anand, whom he had beaten in the semifinals of the FIDE World Cup cycle, with 4,5:6,5 ( 1, -3, = 7).
Retirement from professional chess
Kamsky finished after these successes, his chess career and began studying law in Brooklyn. In his free time, he played in the ICC a variety of games that have been perceived by the chess community with interest. Surprisingly, he took part in the FIDE World Chess Championship 1999 in part in Las Vegas, but lost in the preliminary rounds the eventual tournament winner Alexander Khalifman.
He also took part in the World Chess Cup 2013, in which he reached round 5.
Comeback
In November 2004, Kamsky announced his international retirement and took part in the U.S. Championship in San Diego, where he landed in the midfield. 2005 Kamsky was doped at $ 500,000, and strong exceedingly occupied Open from Minneapolis and shared second place. In December he finished the World Chess Cup 2005 9th place and thus qualified for the candidates fighting for the World Cup 2007. 2006 he won after Tie the World Open in Philadelphia. In the same year he was sent to Vesselin Topalov second in the prestigious M- Tel Masters in Sofia, also shared second place the following year. In candidate fighting 2007 in Elista Kamsky defeated Etienne Bacrot initially significantly with 3,5:0,5, then defeated in the second round Boris Gelfand with 1,5:3,5. The end of 2007 Kamsky celebrated its biggest sporting success since his return to chess: In Khanty-Mansiysk, he won by a final victory over Alexei Shirov ( 2.5:1.5 ) World Cup 2007 (in the previous rounds, he defeated, among others, Pyotr Svidler, Ruslan Ponomariov and Magnus Carlsen ) and thus qualified for the candidates final in February 2009 against Veselin Topalov in which the challenger of the World Champion was determined for the 2010 World Cup. This match, which took place in Sofia from 17 to 26 February 2009, he lost with 2,5:4,5 ( 1, -3, = 3).
After he first took part in the Chess Olympiad 1992 in Manila for the United States at a Chess Olympiad, he paused 14 years and played in 2006 in Turin and at the Chess Olympiad 2008 in Dresden each on top board for the USA and contributed with his score of 6.5 points from ten games for the bronze medal in 2008 his team. As early as 2006, when his team also achieved a third place in the overall standings. At the Olympic Games 2010 in Khanty- Mansiysk, he took seven points from eleven games.
In May 2010, he won the U.S. Championship in St. Louis by tag battle against Yury Shulman. In August 2010, he won in Mainz Grenke World Cup in rapid chess. In April 2011, he won again at the U.S. Championships. At the Candidates tournament in Kazan in 2011 he switched off in the first round Veselin Topalov, but lost in the second round after tiebreaker against Boris Gelfand. In May 2013 Kamsky won for the fourth time the U.S. Championship, after Tie against Alejandro Ramírez.
Family
Kamsky is married and has a son.