KAMSKY GETS OVER THE HUMP IN ELISTA
By ANDY SOLTIS
New York Post
June 3, 2007 — CHESS BIG-LEAGUE chess has been played in some of the more world’s more obscure locales, including Lone Pine, Calif.; Baguio City, the Philippines; and Linares, Spain.
But none are as bizarre as Elista, the Russian city that’s been host to more important events – like last year’s world championship reunification match – than any other site since Moscow in the Soviet era.
When the 16 “candidates” for the world championship arrived in Elista last week they were greeted by 98-degree heat (in the evening) and a welcoming committee of girls in local Kalmykian dress who gave them white shawls.
At the opening ceremony, photographers snapped pictures of U.S. Grandmaster Gata Kamsky being reunited with a camel he met in 1996 when he played a world championship match with Anatoly Karpov. Kamsky was told it was his present – if he wanted to bring it home to Brooklyn.
Source: NY Post
Gata Kamsky is on his way to becoming WORLD CHAMPION! He is the only one I see who can beat Kramnik in a match.
nice talk but sorry too leason too that! i can sage 5-6 name here Carlsen one!
chess are wery hard and many good player are aut there.
Knightonranden
kamsky is a russian grandmaster, not u.s.. he will maybe be us world champion, but he is not u.s. gm.
Kamsky will sneak that camel into his apartment in Brooklyn. Why not. Auto insurance has gotten out of hand and who could steal a camel. He will be spotted trying to make a get away.
But he will need a really big kitty litter box for his camel. And a pet store that sells camel food.
I can just see Gata arrives at Susan’s Chess place and asks where he can hitch his camel.
I wonder if Kirsan bought the camel a first class airline ticket back to New York.
I believe if you check the facts you will find that Kamsky is an American GM not Russian GM.
In 1989 he moved to the United States.
In 1990, FIDE awarded Kamsky the grandmaster title.
Therefore Kamsky was never a GM in Russia.
hello, it is really nice the way you support gata.
Ooops.
I am really supporting the camel. I am a camel lover from way back. I also happen to be a chess player and everyone knows I must be a little off my rocker. But when I get into trouble I just ride my camel off into the sunset.
Actually Gata has a pretty good history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gata_Kamsky
I have no doubts that he would become World Champion if he stayed with chess instead of taking a long time off. He does seem a bit rusty at times. But he keeps moving forward. He seems to win when it is important to win. He also must be very good in matches. He beat Kramnik and Anand in matches back when he was younger.
It would be interesting to know deep down inside Gata just exactly how is he doing.
Partly, my take is that he came out of retirement very rusty and immediately got onto the championship cycle. So he continues to get into form as the cycle progresses.