It’s your move
Posted April 29 2007
Florida Sun Sentinel
By Bill Cornwall
Kamsky’s Way: Four weeks from now, 16 fearsome grandmaster challengers will face off in Elista, Russia, in a series of elimination matches leading toward the World Championship. American Gata Kamsky is one of them.
Now 32, Siberian-born Kamsky is a former U.S. champion who first held the title as a teenager two years after moving to the United States. Four years later, he became the official, though unsuccessful, challenger of the great champion Anatoly Karpov.
Then, he retired from chess for almost 10 years. In the last few years, he has returned with amazing success, becoming the highest-rated U.S. player and a candidate for the world title.
Kamsky is a supreme positional player and his games are filled with basic chess concepts, a mother lode of instructional gold.
Here is the full article.
I was disappointed the web version of that article didn’t reprint Kamsky’s game — it sounded entertaining.
Same here. I wonder what game it was. Most games can be found on the internet. I have to do a little work and I am sure I can get the game.
Anyway. GO KAMSKY GO.
You have a lot of fans Gata. I will be watching all your moves. Hope you can win this one.
Susan maybe you can go to Elista with Gata and help him out between games. That would be awesome.
OK only took a few minutes. Here is the game.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1066724
I hope to go over it more carefully.
That is the game alright. This is getting exciting. High tension here. The newspaper begins with move 1…. Rg1 for black. In the game this is move 28 for Kamsky as black. All this time Kramnik as white can play Qxg7 mate if he can just get the move in.
WOW I finished the game. Incredible game. Kamsky is simply awesome in the game.
I love Gata Kamsky since I first saw his games when he began playing in the US. I first saw him at the National Open in Las Vegas. Later, I was able to man the wall chart game during the 1993 US Championship. I even appeared in NIC when they took a photo of Gata and I am behind him on the wall chart game. I hope he becomes World Champion. I love his style and the way he plays is very educational too! What a talent to have in Brooklyn NYC!