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Gata Kamsky, the Glossary

Gata Kamsky (italics; Гата Камский; born June 2, 1974) is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster, and a five-time U.S. champion.^[1]

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American people of Tatar descent
Sportspeople from Novokuznetsk
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Alexander Grischuk

Alexander Igorevich Grischuk (born October 31, 1983) is a Russian chess grandmaster. Gata Kamsky and Alexander Grischuk are chess Grandmasters.

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Alexander Valeryevich Khalifman (Алекса́ндр Вале́рьевич Халифма́н; born 18 January 1966) is a Russian chess player and writer. Gata Kamsky and Alexander Khalifman are chess Grandmasters and Soviet chess players.

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Alexander Onischuk

Alexander Onischuk (also known as Alexandr Onyschuk,;; born September 3, 1975) is a Soviet-Ukrainian-American chess player. Gata Kamsky and Alexander Onischuk are American chess players, chess Grandmasters and Soviet chess players.

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Alexei Shirov

Alexei Shirov (Aleksejs Širovs; born 4 July 1972) is a Latvian and Spanish chess player. Gata Kamsky and Alexei Shirov are chess Grandmasters and Soviet chess players.

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Anatoly Karpov

Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (Анатолий Евгеньевич Карпов,; born May 23, 1951) is a Russian and former Soviet chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, ⁣and politician. Gata Kamsky and Anatoly Karpov are chess Grandmasters and Soviet chess players.

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Étienne Bacrot

Étienne Bacrot (born 22 January 1983) is a French chess grandmaster, and as a child, a chess prodigy. Gata Kamsky and Étienne Bacrot are chess Grandmasters.

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Boris Gelfand

Boris Gelfand (בוריס אברמוביץ' גלפנד; Barys Abramavič Heĺfand; Boris Abramovich Gel'fand; born 24 June 1968) is a Belarusian-Israeli chess player. Gata Kamsky and Boris Gelfand are chess Grandmasters and Soviet chess players.

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Brooklyn College

Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn in New York City, United States.

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Candidates Tournament

The Candidates Tournament (or in some periods Candidates Matches) is a chess tournament organized by FIDE, chess's international governing body, since 1950, as the final contest to determine the challenger for the World Chess Championship.

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Cappelle-la-Grande Open

The Cappelle-la-Grande Open is a chess tournament held every year in Cappelle-la-Grande, France, since 1985.

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Chess

Chess is a board game for two players.

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Chess World Cup

The FIDE World Cup is a major chess event organized by FIDE, the international governing body.

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Chess World Cup 2005

The Chess World Cup 2005 served as a qualification tournament for the FIDE World Chess Championship 2007.

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Chess World Cup 2007

The Chess World Cup 2007 served as a qualification tournament for the World Chess Championship 2010.

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Chess World Cup 2009

The Chess World Cup 2009 was a 128-player single-elimination tournament, played between 20 November and 14 December 2009, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.

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ChessBase

ChessBase is a German company that develops and sells chess software, maintains a chess news site, and operates an internet chess server for online chess.

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Classical World Chess Championship 1995

The Classical World Chess Championship 1995, known at the time as the PCA World Chess Championship 1995, was held from September 10, 1995, to October 16, 1995, on the 107th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City.

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Dresden

Dresden (Upper Saxon: Dräsdn; Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and it is the second most populous city after Leipzig.

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Elista

Elista (Элиста́,;"Большой энциклопедический словарь", под ред. А. М. Прохорова. Москва и Санкт-Петербург, 1997, стр. 1402, Elst)The approximate pronunciation of the Cyrillic Kalmyk name in IPA is.

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Elo rating system

The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess or esports.

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Fast chess

Fast chess, also known as speed chess, is a type of chess in which each player is given less time to consider their moves than classical chess time controls allow.

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FIDE

The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs), is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national chess federations and acts as the governing body of international chess competition.

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FIDE World Chess Championship 1996

The FIDE World Chess Championship 1996 was a chess tournament held by FIDE to determine the World Chess Champion.

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French Defence

The French Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: This is most commonly followed by 2.d4 d5.

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Garry Kasparov

Garry Kimovich Kasparov (born Garik Kimovich Weinstein on 13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion (1985–2000), political activist and writer. Gata Kamsky and Garry Kasparov are chess Grandmasters and Soviet chess players.

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Grandmaster (chess)

Grandmaster (GM) is a title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Gata Kamsky and Grandmaster (chess) are chess Grandmasters.

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Hikaru Nakamura

Christopher Hikaru Nakamura, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, December 7, 2022 (born December 9, 1987) is an American chess grandmaster, streamer, YouTuber, five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the reigning World Fischer Random Chess Champion. Gata Kamsky and Hikaru Nakamura are American chess players and chess Grandmasters.

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James Cayne

James E. "Jimmy" Cayne (February 14, 1934 – December 28, 2021) was an American businessman and CEO of Bear Stearns.

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Kalmykia

Kalmykia, officially the Republic of Kalmykia, is a republic of Russia, located in the North Caucasus region of Southern Russia.

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Las Palmas

Las Palmas, officially Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is a Spanish city and capital of Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Las Vegas

Las Vegas, often known as Sin City or simply Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the seat of Clark County.

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Lev Alburt

Lev Osipovich Alburt (born August 21, 1945) is a chess Grandmaster, writer and coach. Gata Kamsky and Lev Alburt are American chess players, chess Grandmasters and Soviet chess players.

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Levon Aronian

Levon Grigori Aronian (Levon Grigori Aronyan; born 6 October 1982) is an Armenian-American chess grandmaster. Gata Kamsky and Levon Aronian are American chess players and chess Grandmasters.

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Linares, Jaén

Linares is a municipality of Spain belonging to the province of Jaén, Andalusia.

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M-Tel Masters

Mtel Masters was an annual super-GM chess tournament held between 2005 and 2009 in Sofia, Bulgaria, sponsored and organized by the Bulgarian mobile network operator, M-Tel.

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Magnus Carlsen

Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen (born 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster. Gata Kamsky and Magnus Carlsen are chess Grandmasters.

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Mainz

Mainz (see below) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, and with around 223,000 inhabitants, it is Germany's 35th-largest city.

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Mark Taimanov

Mark Evgenievich Taimanov (Марк Евгеньевич Тайманов; 7 February 1926 – 28 November 2016) was one of the leading Soviet and Russian chess players, among the world's top 20 players from 1946 to 1971. Gata Kamsky and Mark Taimanov are chess Grandmasters and Soviet chess players.

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Mig Greengard

Michael "Mig" Greengard (born 9 June 1969 in Northern California, USA) is an American chess author and journalist who lives in New York City.

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Minneapolis

Minneapolis, officially the City of Minneapolis, is a city in and the county seat of Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. With a population of 429,954, it is the state's most populous city as of the 2020 census. It occupies both banks of the Mississippi River and adjoins Saint Paul, the state capital of Minnesota.

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Nigel Short

Nigel David Short (born 1 June 1965) is an English chess grandmaster, columnist, coach and commentator who has been the FIDE Director for Chess Development since September 2022. Gata Kamsky and Nigel Short are chess Grandmasters.

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Novokuznetsk

Novokuznetsk (Новокузнецк,,; Aba-tura) is a city in Kemerovo Oblast (Kuzbass) in southwestern Siberia, Russia.

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Patrick Wolff

Patrick Gideon Wolff (born February 15, 1968) is an American chess Grandmaster. Gata Kamsky and Patrick Wolff are American chess players and chess Grandmasters.

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Paul van der Sterren

Paul van der Sterren (born 17 March 1956) is a Dutch chess grandmaster. Gata Kamsky and Paul van der Sterren are chess Grandmasters.

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Peter Svidler

Pyotr Veniaminovich Svidler (Пётр Вениами́нович Сви́длер; born 17 June 1976), commonly known as Peter Svidler, is a Russian chess grandmaster and commentator who is an eight-time Russian Chess Champion. Gata Kamsky and Peter Svidler are chess Grandmasters.

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Professional Chess Association

The Professional Chess Association (PCA), which existed between 1993 and 1996, was a rival organisation to FIDE, the international chess organization.

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Reggio Emilia chess tournament

The Reggio Emilia chess tournament was an annual chess tournament held in Reggio Emilia, Italy.

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Ruslan Ponomariov

Ruslan Olehovych Ponomariov (Русла́н Оле́гович Пономарьо́в; born 11 October 1983) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. Gata Kamsky and Ruslan Ponomariov are chess Grandmasters.

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The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR), previously known as the Russian Soviet Republic and the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, and unofficially as Soviet Russia,Declaration of Rights of the laboring and exploited people, article I. was an independent federal socialist state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest and most populous constituent republic of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1922 to 1991, until becoming a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with priority of Russian laws over Union-level legislation in 1990 and 1991, the last two years of the existence of the USSR..

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Rustam Kasimdzhanov

Rustam Kasimdzhanov (born 5 December 1979) is an Uzbek chess grandmaster and former FIDE World Champion (2004-05). He was Asian champion in 1998. Gata Kamsky and Rustam Kasimdzhanov are chess Grandmasters.

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Ruy Lopez

The Ruy Lopez, also called the Spanish Opening or Spanish Game, is a chess opening characterised by the moves: The Ruy Lopez is named after 16th-century Spanish priest Ruy López de Segura.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.

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Sam Sloan

Samuel Howard Sloan (born September 7, 1944), also known as Mohammad Ismail Sloan, is an American perennial candidate and former broker-dealer. Gata Kamsky and Sam Sloan are American chess players.

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Sanghi Nagar

Sanghi Nagar is suburb of Hyderabad, India.

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Sergey Karjakin

Sergey Alexandrovich Karjakin (born 12 January 1990) is a Russian chess grandmaster. Gata Kamsky and Sergey Karjakin are chess Grandmasters.

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Shakhriyar Mamedyarov

Shahriyar Hamid oghlu Mammadyarov (Şəhriyar Həmid oğlu Məmmədyarov; born 12 April 1985), known internationally as Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster. Gata Kamsky and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov are chess Grandmasters.

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Sofia

Sofia (Sofiya) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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The Week in Chess

The Week in Chess (TWIC) is a chess news web site.

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Touro Law Center

Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, commonly known as Touro Law Center, is an ABA accredited law school.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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US Chess Championship

The US Chess Championship is an invitational tournament organized by the United States Chess Federation to determine the country's chess champion.

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Valery Salov

Valery Salov (born 26 May 1964) is a Russian chess grandmaster who was ranked third in the world in 1995. Gata Kamsky and Valery Salov are chess Grandmasters and Soviet chess players.

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Veselin Topalov

Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov (pronounced; Весели́н Алексáндров Топа́лов; born 15 March 1975) is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster and former FIDE World Chess Champion. Gata Kamsky and Veselin Topalov are chess Grandmasters.

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Viswanathan Anand

Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster, a former five-time World Chess Champion and a record two-time Chess World Cup Champion. Gata Kamsky and Viswanathan Anand are chess Grandmasters.

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Vladimir Kramnik

Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (Влади́мир Бори́сович Кра́мник; born 25 June 1975) is a Russian chess grandmaster. Gata Kamsky and Vladimir Kramnik are chess Grandmasters.

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Volga Tatars

The Volga Tatars or simply Tatars (tatarlar) are a Kipchak-Bulgar Turkic ethnic group native to the Volga-Ural region of western Russia. Gata Kamsky and Volga Tatars are Tatar people of Russia.

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Wesley So

Wesley Barbossa So (born October 9, 1993) is a Filipino and American chess grandmaster, a three-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the first World Fischer Random Chess Champion. Gata Kamsky and Wesley So are American chess players and chess Grandmasters.

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World Chess Championship

The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess.

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World Chess Championship 1993

The World Chess Championship 1993 was one of the most controversial matches in chess history, with incumbent World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov, and official challenger Nigel Short, splitting from FIDE, the official world governing body of chess, and playing their title match under the auspices of the Professional Chess Association.

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World Chess Championship 2007

The World Chess Championship 2007 was held in Mexico City, from 12 September 2007 to 30 September 2007 to decide the world champion of the game of chess.

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World Chess Championship 2010

The World Chess Championship 2010 match pitted the defending world champion, Viswanathan Anand, against challenger Veselin Topalov, for the title of World Chess Champion.

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World Open chess tournament

The World Open chess tournament is an annual open chess tournament usually held in Philadelphia.

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World Rapid Chess Championship

The World Rapid Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under rapid time controls.

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Yury Shulman

Yuri Shulman (Юрый Маркавіч Шульман, Ю́рий Ма́ркович Шу́льман; born April 29, 1975, in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, USSR) is a Belarusian American chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM). Gata Kamsky and Yury Shulman are American chess players and chess Grandmasters.

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Zoltán Almási

Zoltán Almási (born August 29, 1976) is a Hungarian chess player. Gata Kamsky and Zoltán Almási are chess Grandmasters.

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37th Chess Olympiad

The 37th Chess Olympiad (Le 37° Olimpiadi degli scacchi), organized by FIDE and comprising an open and a women's tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between May 20 and June 4, 2006, in Turin, Italy.

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38th Chess Olympiad

The 38th Chess Olympiad (Die 38.), organized by FIDE and comprising an open and a women's tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of chess, took place from 12 to 25 November 2008 in Dresden, Germany.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gata_Kamsky

Also known as Kamsky, Ğata Kamskiy, Гата Камский, Гатаулла Рустемович Сабиров, Гатаулла Рөстәм улы Сабиров.

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American people of Tatar descent

Sportspeople from Novokuznetsk

Touro Law Center alumni

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