| Gata Kamsky | |
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 Kamsky in 2024 | |
| Full name | Gataulla Rustemovich Kamsky |
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| Born | June 2, 1974 Novokuznetsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Title | Grandmaster (1990) |
| FIDE rating | 2609 (October 2024) |
| Peak rating | 2763 (July 2013) |
| Peak ranking | No. 4 (July 1995) |
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.
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.
- ^ "FIDE Rankings 1970–1997". Chess.eusa.ed.ac.uk. Archived from the original on November 26, 2009. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
- ^ "World Chess Challenge Sofia 2009 – Veselin Topalov vs Gata Kamsky". Archived from the original on February 20, 2009. Retrieved December 24, 2019. World Chess Challenge 2009