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Gata Kamsky is a Soviet-born American 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. Wikipedia

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GATA KAMSKY
Person of day - 02.06.2019

Gata Rustemovich Sabirov was born in the distant city of Novokuznetsk, but his family soon moved to Leningrad after a short stay in Kazan. Gata’s grandfather, the founder of Tatarstan’s Drama Theatre, went under the pseudonym of “Kamsky” and soon one of the most notable wunderkinds of the 20thcentury became known in Leningrad under than surname. 
Kamsky was noticed by the legendary trainer Vladimir Zak in the Pioneers’ Palace and his regular sparring-partner was master Vladimir Shishkin. Zak proudly called his mentee “my little grandmaster”, for the Siberian’s talent was so evident. Gata’s successes were linear: he won the juniors’ Spartak championship, defeated Mark Taimanov during a sensational Leningrad championship and became the USSR junior champion at the age of 12. 
“There’s been no talent of this level since Kasparov!” wrote Soviet newspapers about the young champion. The Soviet chess federation decided to stage a match between Kamsky and the more experienced junior prize-winner AlexeiShirov. Under the guidance of his new trainer Gennady Nesis, the wunderkind convincingly won the match before representing the USSR in the world junior championship.  
In 1989, the Kamsky family accepted an offer of millionaire James Kane and moved to the US, to the surprise of Soviet functionaries. In the West, the young chess player soared- he won the US championship and became a grandmaster, thus qualifying for the inter-zonal tournament. In 1990, Gata won the super tournament in Tilburg and entered the global chess elite. 
Analysts were certain that the next candidates’ cycle would be connected with Gata Kamsky’s name. While the chess world was split into two in 1993, Gata brought the US team victory in the world team championship, where he defeated Russia’s leader, Vladimir Kramnik. Soon after, he won the Najdorf Memorial in 1993, before qualifying for the candidates’ matches of both FIDE and the newly-formed PCA.  
While playing qualifying matches for the PCA, he thrashed Vladimir Kramnik 4,5:1,5 and recent candidate Nigel Short 5,5:1,5, but he lost the right to a match against Kasparov to Vishy Anand. In FIDE’s cycle, he was even more successful: he beat Van der Sterren 4,5:2,5, Valery Salov 4,5:1,5 and won against Anand after a tie-break 6:4. His 1994 victory in Linares showed that Gata was serious about his challenge for the championship, which was guarded by Anatoly Karpov. 
The match for the FIDE crown took place in Elista in 1996 and was followed by a chain of scandals. Despite the advent of the computer age, the ageing Karpov insisted on playing with delays. Gata’s father Rustam clashed with administrators and once knocked out Gata’s second, Yasser Seirawan, whom he suspected of passing information to the enemy camp. In the end, the 12thworld champion won by three points and the disappointed father announced that his son was robbed of the crown unfairly and that his son would be quitting chess to study at university.   
Kamsky was unheard-of for several years, other than the single interruption of his seclusion, when Gata played in the 1999 FIDE knockout world championship but lost to eventual winner Alexander Khalifman at an early stage. His real return came in 2004. The law graduate of Arizona University prepared for the 2005 World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk and became a candidate. In 2007 in Elista, he knocked out Etienne Bacrot 3,5:0,5, but then lost to Boris Gelfand and failed to qualify for the world championship. 
The next World Cup brought the American a grandiose triumph: he consecutively defeated Adly, Avrukh, Georgiev, Svidler, Ponomarev, Carlsen and Shirov, thus winning the trophy. Alas, Gata could not qualify for the match against Anand after he lost a qualifying match against Veselin Topalov.  
He played in the 2011 candidates’ matches, where he avenged Topalov but lost to Gelfand once again. He won several large open tournaments and multiple US championships. He also won several Olympic bronze medals with the American team in individual and collective rankings.

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Lastly, he won three European Cups with Linex-Magic, Ural and SOCAR. 
He has lived in Russia for the last few years, where he heads a children’s school in Kazan and plays for Kazan’s Ladya in Russian club championships.  


https://ruchess.ru/en/persons_of_day/gata_kamsky/

Gata Kamsky is one of the greatest chess players to represent the United States. He is a five-time U.S. Chess Champion (1991, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014) and a six-time U.S. Olympiad team member (1992, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014). Kamsky also played board one on the only American team to win the World Team Chess Championship (Lucerne 1993). He has been ranked number three in the chess world twice (1996, 2009) and is the only American after Bobby Fischer to compete in a match for the FIDE World Chess Championship (losing to Anatoly Karpov 7 ½ - 10 ½ in 1996). Kamsky is also the only U.S. player to win the FIDE World Cup, finishing ahead of 128 players at Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia (2007).

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GM Gata Kamsky competes in the 1992 Manila, Philippines, Chess Olympiad
1992
Collection of the World Chess Hall of Fame, gift of the U.S. Chess Trust

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GM Gata Kamsky at the 2016 U.S. Chess Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2016
Courtesy of the Saint Louis Chess Club

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👑قهرمان قهرمانان سال ۲۰۲۰👑

🎁 ۱۲۰ میلیون تومان جوایز نقدی تضمین شده

از یکشنبهٔ این هفته، مورخ ۴ خرداد ۱۳۹۹ تا یکشنبه ۷ دی ماه ۱۳۹۹ ما ۳۲ یکشنبه پیش رو داریم. و این به معنای ۳۲ مسابقهٔ هفتگی یونیتی است.

🎉به منظور بالا بردن هیجان و جذابیت مسابقات جوایز ویژه ای برای قهرمان قهرمانان این ۳۲ مسابقه در نظر گرفته ایم.

در هر ۴ هفته، ما ۴ قهرمان در بخش های آزاد، بانوان، پیشکسوتان، زیر ۱۶، زیر ۱۲، را کنار هم جمع خواهیم کرد و قهرمانان در مسابقهٔ دوره ای رفت و برگشتی شرکت خواهند کرد. برندهٔ این مسابقه قهرمان آن فصل خواهد بود (۸ فصل در مجموع وجود خواهد داشت).

👑در اولین هفته از سال نوی میلادی ما یک مسابقهٔ قهرمانی دوره ای بین قهرمان های هر فصل خواهیم داشت. برندهٔ این مسابقه قهرمان قهرمانان سال۲۰۲۰ خواهد شد.

همین برنامه برای کشور ها هم خواهد بود و آن ها پس از ۴ هفته در قالب مسابقه ای دو ساعته به روش آرنا به رقابت خواهند پرداخت. قهرمان این مسابقه، قهرمان آن فصل خواهد شد. در پایان سال ما مسابقهٔ قهرمان قهرمانان برای مشخص نمودن تیم برندهٔ سال خواهیم داشت . ۱۰۰بازیکن برتر که حداقل در یکی از دوره های مسابقات هفتگی بین المللی یونیتی حضور داشته اند جایزه خواهند گرفت.

🎁این مسابقات برای همه شرکت کننده ها رایگان است.

🕣تمامی مسابقات قهرمانی فصل ها در روز شنبه در ساعت ۲۰:۳۰ برگزار خواهد شد.

فصل ها و دورها به شرح زیر است.

(۱۰-۱۳)، (۱۴-۱۷)، (۱۸-۲۱)، (۲۲-۲۵)، (۲۶-۲۹)، (۳۰-۳۳)، (۳۴-۳۷)، (۳۸-۴۱)

مجموع: ۸ فصل

برنامه انفرادی و تیمی این ۸ فصل به شرح زیر است:

1️⃣فصل اول (۱۳-۱۰):

آزاد/بانوان: ۱۳۹۹.۰۳.۳۱
تیم: ۱۳۹۹.۰۴.۰۷
زیر ۱۶ و زیر ۱۲: ۱۳۹۹.۰۴.۱۴
پیشکسوتان: ۱۳۹۹.۰۴.۲۱

2️⃣فصل دوم (۱۷-۱۴):
آزاد/بانوان: ۱۳۹۹.۰۴.۲۸
تیم: ۰۴ .۱۳۹۹.۰۵
زیر ۱۶و زیر۱۲: ۱۳۹۹.۰۵.۱۱
پیشکسوتان: ۱۳۹۹.۰۵.۱۸

3️⃣فصل سوم (۲۱-۱۸):
آزاد/بانوان: ۱۳۹۹.۰۵.۲۵
تیم: ۱۳۹۹.۰۶‌.۰۱
زیر ۱۶ و زیر ۱۲: ۱۳۹۹.۰۶.۰۸
پیشکسوتان: ۱۳۹۹.۰۶.۱۵

4️⃣فصل چهارم (۲۲-۲۵):
آزاد/بانوان: ۱۳۹۹.۰۶۰۲۲
تیم: ۱۳۹۹.۰۶.۲۹
زیر ۱۶و زیر ۱۲: ۱۳۹۹.۰۷.۰۵
پیشکسوتان: ۱۳۹۹.۰۷.۱۲

5️⃣فصل پنجم (۲۹-۲۶):
آزاد/بانوان: ۱۳۹۹.۰۷.۱۹
تیم: ۱۳۹۹.۷.۲۶
زیر۱۶ و زیر ۱۲: ۱۳۹۹.۰۸.۰۳
پیشکسوتان: ۱۳۹۹.۰۸.۱۰

6️⃣فصل ششم (۳۳-۳۰):
آزاد/بانوان: ۱۳۹۹.۰۸.۱۷
تیم: ۱۳۹۹.۰۸.۲۴
زیر۱۶و زیر۱۲: ۱۳۹۹.۰۹.۰۱
پیشکسوتان: ۱۳۹۹.۰۹.۰۸

7️⃣فصل هفتم (۳۷-۳۴):
آزاد/بانوان: ۱۳۹۹.۰۹.۱۵
تیم: ۱۳۹۹.۰۹.۲۲
زیر ۱۶ و زیر ۱۲: ۱۳۹۹.۰۹.۲۹
پیشکسوتان: ۱۳۹۹.۱۰.۰۶

8️⃣فصل هشتم (۴۱-۳۸)
آزاد/بانوان/پیشکسوتان/زیر ۱۶/زیر۱۲:
۱۳۹۹.۱۰.۱۰
تیم: ۱۳۹۹.۱۰.۱۱

👑قهرمان قهرمانان:
پیشکسوتان: ۱۳۹۹.۱۰.۱۵
زیر ۱۲: ۱۳۹۹.۱۰.۱۶
زیر۱۶: ۱۳۹۹.۱۰.۱۷
زنان: ۱۳۹۹.۱۰.۱۸
ازاد: ۱۳۹۹.۱۰.۱۹
تیم: ۱۳۹۹.۱۰.۲۰

🕣زمان تمام بازیها (۰+/۳) میباشد.

🎁‼جوایز برندگان بزرگ سال به شرح زیر است:
🏅نفر اول تیمی ۶۰ میلیون تومان (۱۰۰بازیکن. هر بازیکن ۶۰۰ هزار تومان)
🏅نفر اول بخش آزاد: ۲۴ میلیون تومان
🏅نفر اول بانوان: ۱۲ میلیون تومان
🏅نفر اول زیر ۱۶: ۱۲ میلیون تومان
🏅نفر اول زیر ۱۲: ۶ میلیون تومان
🏅نفر اول پیشکسوتان: ۶ میلیون تومان

👑 پروژهٔ قهرمان قهرمانان از همین یکشنبه مورخ ۱۳۹۹.۰۳.۰۴ آغاز میشود.

🎉‼بنابراین ما بخش زیر ۱۲ سال را این یکشنبه به فهرست اضافه میکنیم‼


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12th world chess champion Anatoly Karpov turns 69 today.
He is regarded as one of the greatest chess players of all time.
Karpov was an amazing strategist and a positional player, but his famous quote will be remembered forever:
Style? I have no style.

Here are 70 checkmates and combinations from the games of World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov (69th birthday today) : http://wtharvey.com/karp.html . Find the winning moves. #puzzles

https://chesspuzzle.net/Player/Anatoly_Karpov

”Duchamp with Chessboard, New York“ (1950).

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The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance.

🔸 Anatoly Karpov

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GM Magnus Carlsen - the World Champion, with white pieces -, was facing a pirc structure defense with his very strong opponent, GM Teimour Radjabov.

This old but gold ending game gone to a thrilling check-mate position.

(Result: 0-1)

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