This is the final position of the Kamsky – Ponomariov game
Kamsky is at it again. In the first game of the second half, he took Ponomariov to school in a somewhat innocent position. This shows Gata’s talent and understanding of these types of positions. I cannot say that Gata is fully back to his old form but he is certainly making a big splash. You’ve got to believe!
In the mean time, Anand with the White pieces drew against Bacrot. Topalov with the White pieces lost to Svidler.
After 6 rounds, Gata Kamsky is leading Mtel with 4.5 points in 6 games.
1 4.5 GM Kamsky (USA, 2671)
2 4.0 GM Anand (India, 2803)
3 3.5 GM Svidler (Russia, 2743)
4 2.5 GM Topalov (Bulgaria, 2804)
5 2.0 GM Bacrot (France, 2708)
6 1.5 GM Ponomariov (Ukraine, 2738)
I thought that Ponomariov had everything under control. Kamsky got nothing out of this anti-Marshall, I thought. Then some pressure against the black a-pawn. Some issues with the black queen bishop. Taking the 7-rank with the rook. And suddenly a decisive kingside attack! Amasing…
And also my earlier prediction has come true — that Gata would overtake Nakamura in the USCF rolls as the #1 player. Little did I know that Onischuk would also overtake Hikaru.
Go Kamsky! Show them who’s the boss!
Does Kamsky read this blog? It may be an additional inspiration for him! Does he have his own blog?
What were the big results Gata made vefore, that everyone is talking about?
Gata’s making US proud!
Gata Kamsky (Tatar:Ğataulla Kamski) (born June 2, 1974) is a Russian born American chess grandmaster. At one point he was the third highest rated player in the world, but played no FIDE-rated games between 1999 and late 2004.
Kamsky is a Crimean Tatar, born in Siberia. He won the Soviet Under-20 championship twice before 1989. In 1989 he moved to the United States.
In 1990 Kamsky became a chess grandmaster. In 1991 he won the U.S. Championship. He also did well at prestigious chess tournaments. He placed second at the SKA Biel Interzonal in 1993. He won the Las Palmas tournament in 1994. For a time in the early 1990s he was widely regarded as Judit Polgár’s main rival as the most promising chess prodigy.
In 1996 Kamsky played a 20 game match against Anatoly Karpov for the World Chess Championship at Elista in Kalmykia, under the auspices of FIDE. He lost with a score of 7.5 to Karpov’s 10.5 (+3 -6 =9), the last two games being mathematically irrelevant to the outcome of the match. After losing this match he gave up chess to study law.
Kamsky did not play any rated games after that except in 1999, when he returned to play in the FIDE Knockout World Championship event in Las Vegas, where he played a two game match against Alexander Khalifman. Kamsky won the first game, lost the second game, and then lost the rapid play-off games.
He did not play another game in public until June 15, 2004, when he participated in the 106th New York Masters, playing four games in a day with a time control of 30 minutes for all his moves. His two wins and two draws were enough for him to be one of five players tied for first place. He subsequently played in several other editions of the weekly event with mixed success, before returning to slow chess in the 2005 U.S. Championship held in November-December 2004 where he scored a respectable but unspectacular 5.5/9. His subsequent return to the April 2005 FIDE Elo rating list saw him at number nineteen in the world, with a rating of 2700; he retained this rating in the July 2005 list but moved up one spot in the rankings to number 18.
GATA KAMSKY!!!!!! Still in first place! I am amazed, I am dancing in the streets, I am so happy being a Gata fan since his first World Open tournament he played in. I even did the wall charts in the 1993 US Championship and only did Gata’s games. I later found out I appeared in a photo in NIC standing by the wall chart while Gata made is move. I hope Gata keeps up the great results into the Olympics. If only Susan could have played on the US Women’s Team….but I respect her reasons for not playing.
MayanKing, the USCF didn’t even invite Susan. How utterly ridiculous!
Why do you refer to ‘professor’ and ‘school’ in relation to Kamsky? He isn’t a teacher is he? If he loses is he sent back to kindergarten?
I’t only an expression, meaning that he thrashed him.
Karpov became the first millionaire playing chess. Before the Soviet Union broke up, he was a member of the Supreme Soviet Commission for Foreign Affairs and the President of the Soviet Peace Fund.
please, is anyone around here to explain me the difference, why Gata Kamsky’s nearly incredible performance in Sofia is a reason of taking pride in U.S. chess – but the erection of fences, walls and road blocks alongside a southern border – to prevent wetbacks – is a necessary national act of self-defense (with the black pieces, i assume …)?
i am confused – and what about –
Gens uns sumus (i corrected that misspelling :-))?
– maybe i should keep my mouth …
sincerly – Vohaul
PS: This Kamsky guy convinces me more and more (i remembered him a thick glasses wearing, thin, tall boy – dominated by his rude father – but he is more – much more – a jewel – maybe … one of the great “4K’s” – Karpov, Kasparov, Kortchnoi, Kamsky comes back … “i’ll be back” … maybe the forgotten fifth in this row – ^^ – KRAMNIK – might get a word in edgeways ^^)
Vohaul,
Well, Kamsky is now the greatest ever American chess player.
Since Fischer became an American-born Icelandic grandmaster, so he does not count anymore.