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GATA GETTIN’ CLOSER TO WORLD TITLE BID
By ANDY SOLTIS
NY Post
December 23, 2007 — CHESS
GATA Kamsky, 33, of Brooklyn completed a remarkable three-year comeback, after a nearly decade-long absence from chess, by winning the World Cup in Siberia last week.
He is now two steps away from the world championship. This is the closest any American has gotten since Kamsky lost a world title match to Anatoly Karpov in 1996 and then gave up chess. He returned to the game in local New York tournaments in 2004.
Kamsky won seven knockout rounds in the Siberian tournament, beating Alexey Shirov in the finals by 21/2-11/2, and this week’s diagram shows how he won. He now qualifies to meet Veselin Topalov in a match in 2008. The winner will be the official world championship challenger in 2009.
Shirov should have been ousted in the second round by another American, Yury Shulman. Shulman sacrificed pawns to expose White’s king but missed a difficult win with 24 . . . d3 and an easier one with 26 . . . Nd4+.
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Gata will rule the chess world for the next decade for sure.
Go Gata!
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Gata will rule the chess world for the next decade for sure.
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LOL. You seem so confident, Mr… Anonymous, was it?
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Gata will rule the chess world for the next decade for sure.
LOL. You seem so confident, Mr… Anonymous, was it?
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You seem so smug, Mr… Anonymous, was it?