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Gata Kamsky
Gata Kamsky
Early career
3 Inactivity (19962004)
After losing the match to Karpov, Kamsky gave up chess.
He graduated from Brooklyn College in 1999.[11] He then
attended and graduated from law school at Touro Law
Center in New York.
3
Shulman. In the round-robin stage, he drew Nakamura
with black and then defeated Onischuk on the White side
of the Ruy Lopez.[21] In 2013 and 2014 he won the tournament, and the last title was his fth career United States
Championship.[22] In 2016 he placed third at the Chigorin
Memorial tournament in Saint Petersburg.[23]
Tilburg, 1990
World Open, 1991[24]
FIDE WCC Knockout 1999 Second Round, Las Vegas, KamskyKhalifman (12)
Mashantucket, 2007
Chess World Cup, Khanty-Mansiysk, 2007
National Open, Las Vegas, 2008
Reggio Emilia, 2010
Philadelphia Open, 2010[25]
U.S. Championship, 2010
[25]
7 Illustrative game
Here Kamsky as Black defeats Kramnik en route to winning the 1994 Candidates match:
KramnikKamsky, World Championship
Quarter-Finals Match, New York 1994
1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.g3 0-0 5.Bg2
c5 6.0-0 Nc6 7.d4 cxd4 8.Nxd4 Qe7 9.Nc2
(White allows Black to ruin his pawn structure,
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and soon sacrices one of his weak c-pawns.
He hopes that his two bishops will give him
sucient compensation, but will nd that he is
unable to use them eectively.) Bxc3 10.bxc3
Rd8 11.Ba3 d6 12.Rb1 Qc7 13.Nd4 Nxd4
14.cxd4 Qxc4 15.Qd2 Qa6 16.Rb3 Rb8
17.e4 Bd7 18.Rf3 (trying to get play on the
kingside, but Kamskys pieces now overrun the
queenside) Ba4! (disdaining 18...Nxe4 19.Qf4
f5 20.g4 opening lines for Whites pieces)
19.Re1 Rbc8 20.Bf1 Bb5 21.Bh3 Qa4 22.d5
Rc2 23.Qe3? exd5 (White is in deep trouble.
If now 24.exd5? Re8 wins) 24.e5 d4! 25.Qg5
Re2! (Exploiting Whites weak back rank.
Now White sacrices material for a fearsomelooking attack against g7, but Kamsky has
calculated exactly.) 26.exf6 Rxe1+ 27.Bf1
(27.Kg2?
Bf1+ 28.Kg1 Bxh3#) Rxf1+
28.Kg2 Rg1+! 29.Kh3 (29.Kxg1? Qd1+
30.Kg2 Qf1#) Bd7+ 30.Kh4 g6 31.Qh6 d3+
32.Rf4 (32.Kg5? Qg4#) Qxf4+! 33.Qxf4
(33.gxf4 Rg4+ 34.Kh3 Rg5+! 35.Kh4 Rh5+
wins the queen) Rh1! 34.g4 h6! (Now
Whites attack is over and Blacks pawns join
in attacking Whites king, threatening ...g5+.)
35.Kh3 (35.Qxh6? Rxh2+) g5! 36.Qd4 Rg1
37.f3 d2! 38.Qxd2 (38.Qxg1 Ba4 and Black
queens) Bb5! 01 (39...Bf1+ will win Whites
queen)
References
EXTERNAL LINKS
2012.
9 External links
[5] 36th USSR Junior Chess Championship, Kapsukas, January 518, 1987. RusBase. Retrieved 2009-07-31.
Gata Kamsky International Chess & Sports Foundation, Kamskys ocial website.
OlimpBase
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