Gata Kamsky

About Gata Kamsky

American chess Grandmaster and former World Rapid Chess Champion who was born in the Soviet Union.

Gata Kamsky 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. 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. Kamsky also competed in the Candidates Tournament in 2011, losing to Boris Gelfand.

Country	United States
Born	June 2, 1974, Novokuznetsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
FIDE rating	2648
Peak rating	2763 (July 2013)
Title	Grandmaster
Peak ranking	No. 4 (July 1995)
Full name	Gataulla Rustemovich Kamsky

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Trivia

He has been ranked as high as fourth in the World and he reached the final of the FIDE World Chess Championship 1996 at the age of 22

Gata Kamsky before fame

In his native Soviet Union, he was a chess prodigy.

Achievement of Gata Kamsky

At the age of 22, he reached the final of the FIDE World Chess Championship 1996, where he was ranked fourth in the world.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Gata Kamsky family life

In 1989, his father, Rostam, relocated him to the United States.

Associations of Gata Kamsky

When he and his father emigrated to the United States, he was on his way to becoming the next Boris Spassky.

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