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Key facts
- Born
- Gataulla Rustemovich Sabirov , ( 1974-06-02 ) June 2, 1974 (age 52) , Novokuznetsk , Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
- Country
- Soviet Union (until 1989) United States (1989–2025) France (since 2025)
- Title
- Grandmaster (1990)
- Fide rating
- 2596 (June 2026)
- Peak rating
- 2763 (July 2013)
- Peak ranking
- No. 4 (July 1995)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Novokuznetsk
- Occupation
- chess player
- Educated at
- University of Arizona
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- 41st Chess Olympiad
- Student of
- Vladimir Zak
- Sport
- chess
- Country for sport
- France
- Image
- GataKamsly12.jpg
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- Commons category
- Gata Kamsky
- date of birth
- 1974-06-02
- name in native language
- Ğataulla Röstäm uğlı Sabirof
- social media followers
- 4665
- Elo rating
- 2606
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Encyclopedic overview
Gata Rustemovich Kamsky (Tatar: Гата Камский; Russian: Гата Камский; born June 2, 1974) is an American-French chess grandmaster and a five-time U.S. champion.
Kamsky 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 1995. He played almost no FIDE-rated games between 1997 and late 2004.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gata Kamsky” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.