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Showing posts with label GM\Gata Kamsky. Show all posts
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Friday, May 28, 2010

The Chess Genius GM\Gata Kamsky Masterpiece !


Gata Kamsky was born June 2nd, 1974 in Siberia. After beginning his chess career in Russia, winning two USSR Junior Championships, Kamsky relocated to the United States in 1989. In July 1990 he became the youngest player ever to be rated in FIDE's world top ten. After a short while spent adjusting to this level of opposition, Kamsky scored some major tournament triumphs, including the U.S. Championship of 1991, clear first at Las Palmas 1994, and shared first in 1995 at Dos Hermanas. In 2010 he won the U.S. Championship once again...(http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=15874)
In the above diagram GM\Gata Kamsky finished the game in 7 moves ...Could you figure it out ?
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Diagram created by Chessup.net
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GM\Gata Kamsky Deservedly Won U.S. Chess Championship At The Chess Club And Scholastic Center In St. Louis.


In May 2010, Kamsky participated in the 2010 U.S. Championship, where he was seeded second behind defending champion Hikaru Nakamura. He scored 5/7 to qualify for the round-robin stage against Nakamura, 2006 champion Alexander Onischuk, and 2008 champion Yuri Shulman. In the round-robin stage, he drew Nakamura with black and then defeated Onischuk on the White side of the Ruy Lopez. He became U.S. Champion on May 25, 2010, after winning a rapid playoff game with second place finisher Yury Shulman. This championship, Kamsky's second, came 19 years after he won his first U.S. championship.Kamsky won the title and the $30,000 first prize.
Biography:

Gata Kamsky (Tatar: Ğata Kamskiy, Ğataulla Rөstəm uğlı Sabirov; Гата Камский, Гатаулла Рөстәм улы Сабиров; Russian: Гатаулла Рустемович Сабиров, Гата Камский) (born June 2, 1974) is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster, and the current United States Chess Champion.

Kamsky was a prodigy who 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 1996. He played almost no FIDE-rated games between 1997 and late 2004.

Kamsky won the Chess World Cup 2007. This earned him a match against Veselin Topalov for the right to challenge for the World Chess Championship 2010, which he lost. Kamsky will also play in the Candidates Tournament to determine the challenger for the World Chess Championship 2012.....

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gata_Kamsky

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Thursday, May 20, 2010

GM\Shakhriyar Mamedyarov Masterpiece (The Power Of Tactics !)


Shakhriyar Hamid oglu Mammadyarov (Azerbaijani: Şəhriyar Məmmədyarov) (born 12 April 1985 in Sumgayit, Azerbaijan) is a chess Grandmaster. On the May 2010 FIDE rating list he was ranked number six in the world with an Elo rating of 2763.In 2003 he won the World Junior Chess Championship. He repeated his victory in 2005 (thus becoming the only two-time champion), achieving an incredible 2953 performance rating after eight rounds.In 2005 Mamedyarov competed at European Club Cup and had the second highest performance rating (2913) among all of the participants (Vassily Ivanchuk had the highest).IM Goran Antunac has commented that Mamedyarov is a true virtuoso at handling the pieces, always finding the best squares for them.Mamedyarov attained joint first place in Aeroflot Open in Moscow in February 2006, with a score of 6.5/9.He also become best individual player at the World Team Chess Championships 2009.In 2010 he tied for 1st-3rd with Vladimir Kramnik and Gata Kamsky in the President's Cup in Baku.Shakhriyar has two sisters, Zeinab Mamedyarova and Turkan Mamedyarova, who are also Woman Grandmasters ...(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakhriyar_Mamedyarov).
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