GMGata Kamsky

FRA Born 1974 (Age ≈52) Male
FIDE ID
2000024

About Gata Kamsky

Gata Kamsky was born in Novokuznetsk into a Tatar family. His grandfather's theatrical name provided the surname by which the chess player became known. As a youngster he defeated Mark Taimanov and won consecutive Soviet under-20 championships in 1987 and 1988. Show more

Gata Kamsky was born in Novokuznetsk into a Tatar family. His grandfather's theatrical name provided the surname by which the chess player became known. As a youngster he defeated Mark Taimanov and won consecutive Soviet under-20 championships in 1987 and 1988. He moved to the United States with his father in 1989 and became a grandmaster the following year. His first U.S. championship followed in 1991. Kamsky reached the 1996 FIDE world championship match against Anatoly Karpov. After a long break from top-level competition, he returned and won the 2007 World Cup. That victory earned a qualifying match against Veselin Topalov for a chance to challenge Viswanathan Anand. He later returned to the Candidates in 2011. Across his career he won the U.S. championship five times.

FIDE ratings

Classical

2586.0

Published FIDE

Rapid

2639

Published FIDE

Blitz

2645

Published FIDE

Official classical ranks

World rank
#184
National rank · FRA
#9

Active players · Nov 2026 FIDE list ⓘ

Rating milestones

Highest recorded rating
2763 Jul 2013
Recorded years
2001–2026
Archived games
6030

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Rating history

FIDE rating history

Published rating lists through Nov 2026.

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Games

Published games available in our archive; coverage varies by tournament. Archive last checked: 2026-11-11 (UTC).

Online games are identified from known tournament names, playing sites and PGN mode. Other games are listed as OTB (over-the-board).

# Date Event Site Round White Black Result Moves View
701 2024-07-30 Titled Tue 30th Jul Late chess.com INT 11 Gata Kamsky Andrej Ljepic Won: 1-0 41 Open
702 2024-07-30 Titled Tue 30th Jul Early chess.com INT 11 Gata Kamsky Leonid Starozhilov Won: 1-0 45 Open
703 2024-07-30 Titled Tue 30th Jul Early chess.com INT 10 Dmitry Goltsev Gata Kamsky Lost: 1-0 44 Open
704 2024-07-30 Titled Tue 30th Jul Late chess.com INT 10 Olexandr Bortnyk Gata Kamsky Lost: 1-0 70 Open
705 2024-07-23 Titled Tue 23rd Jul Late chess.com INT 9 Gata Kamsky Hikaru Nakamura Draw: 1/2-1/2 76 Open
706 2024-07-23 Titled Tue 23rd Jul Early chess.com INT 9 Arystanbek Urazayev Gata Kamsky Draw: 1/2-1/2 45 Open
707 2024-07-23 Titled Tue 23rd Jul Late chess.com INT 8 Daniel Naroditsky Gata Kamsky Draw: 1/2-1/2 39 Open
708 2024-07-23 Titled Tue 23rd Jul Early chess.com INT 8 Gata Kamsky Yerlan Rakhimgaliyev Lost: 0-1 33 Open
709 2024-07-23 Titled Tue 23rd Jul Early chess.com INT 7 Gata Kamsky Hikaru Nakamura Draw: 1/2-1/2 32 Open
710 2024-07-23 Titled Tue 23rd Jul Late chess.com INT 7 Bogdan-Daniel Deac Gata Kamsky Draw: 1/2-1/2 36 Open
711 2024-07-23 Titled Tue 23rd Jul Early chess.com INT 6 Matyas Marek Gata Kamsky Won: 0-1 42 Open
712 2024-07-23 Titled Tue 23rd Jul Late chess.com INT 6 Gata Kamsky Jeffery Xiong Draw: 1/2-1/2 63 Open
713 2024-07-23 Titled Tue 23rd Jul Late chess.com INT 5 Viktor Shapiro Gata Kamsky Won: 0-1 42 Open
714 2024-07-23 Titled Tue 23rd Jul Early chess.com INT 5 Moritz Weishaeutel Gata Kamsky Draw: 1/2-1/2 42 Open
715 2024-07-23 Titled Tue 23rd Jul Early chess.com INT 4 Gata Kamsky Balazs Csonka Won: 1-0 58 Open
716 2024-07-23 Titled Tue 23rd Jul Late chess.com INT 4 Hamed Wafa Gata Kamsky Won: 0-1 40 Open
717 2024-07-23 Titled Tue 23rd Jul Late chess.com INT 3 Gata Kamsky Raem Sherman Won: 1-0 39 Open
718 2024-07-23 Titled Tue 23rd Jul Early chess.com INT 3 Nicodim-Cosmin Stepanencu Gata Kamsky Won: 0-1 26 Open
719 2024-07-23 Titled Tue 23rd Jul Early chess.com INT 2 Gata Kamsky Vladimir Goncharov Won: 1-0 43 Open
720 2024-07-23 Titled Tue 23rd Jul Late chess.com INT 2 Aleksandr Domalchuk-Jonasson Gata Kamsky Won: 0-1 53 Open
721 2024-07-23 Titled Tue 23rd Jul Early chess.com INT 1 Diana Preobrazhenskaya Gata Kamsky Won: 0-1 32 Open
722 2024-07-23 Titled Tue 23rd Jul Late chess.com INT 1 Gata Kamsky Maksims Golubovskis Won: 1-0 30 Open
723 2024-07-23 Titled Tue 23rd Jul Early chess.com INT 11 Dmitriy Kushko Gata Kamsky Won: 0-1 57 Open
724 2024-07-23 Titled Tue 23rd Jul Late chess.com INT 11 Vasif Durarbayli Gata Kamsky Lost: 1-0 61 Open
725 2024-07-23 Titled Tue 23rd Jul Late chess.com INT 10 Gata Kamsky Etienne Bacrot Draw: 1/2-1/2 42 Open
726 2024-07-23 Titled Tue 23rd Jul Early chess.com INT 10 Gata Kamsky Daniil Plyasunov Won: 1-0 50 Open
727 2024-07-19 CrunchLab Masters Div 3 W chess.com INT 1.4 Pa Iniyan Gata Kamsky Lost: 1-0 33 Open
728 2024-07-19 CrunchLab Masters Div 3 W chess.com INT 1.3 Gata Kamsky Pa Iniyan Lost: 0-1 39 Open
729 2024-07-19 CrunchLab Masters Div 3 L chess.com INT 1.2 Velimir Ivic Gata Kamsky Draw: 1/2-1/2 34 Open
730 2024-07-19 CrunchLab Masters Div 3 W chess.com INT 1.2 Pa Iniyan Gata Kamsky Lost: 1-0 69 Open
731 2024-07-19 CrunchLab Masters Div 3 L chess.com INT 1.1 Gata Kamsky Velimir Ivic Lost: 0-1 46 Open
732 2024-07-19 CrunchLab Masters Div 3 W chess.com INT 1.1 Gata Kamsky Pa Iniyan Won: 1-0 26 Open
733 2024-07-18 Crunchlabs Play-In Match D3 chess.com INT 1.3 Gata Kamsky Dmitry Frolyanov Won: 1-0 59 Open
734 2024-07-18 Crunchlabs Play-In Match D3 chess.com INT 1.2 Dmitry Frolyanov Gata Kamsky Draw: 1/2-1/2 55 Open
735 2024-07-18 Crunchlabs Play-In Match D3 chess.com INT 1.1 Gata Kamsky Dmitry Frolyanov Won: 1-0 33 Open
736 2024-07-17 CrunchLabs Masters PlayIn chess.com INT 9 Gata Kamsky Peter Prohaszka Draw: 1/2-1/2 48 Open
737 2024-07-17 CrunchLabs Masters PlayIn chess.com INT 8 Levon Aronian Gata Kamsky Lost: 1-0 46 Open
738 2024-07-17 CrunchLabs Masters PlayIn chess.com INT 7 Gata Kamsky Felix Blohberger Draw: 1/2-1/2 72 Open
739 2024-07-17 CrunchLabs Masters PlayIn chess.com INT 6 Maxim Matlakov Gata Kamsky Lost: 1-0 45 Open
740 2024-07-17 CrunchLabs Masters PlayIn chess.com INT 5 Gata Kamsky David Paravyan Won: 1-0 44 Open
741 2024-07-17 CrunchLabs Masters PlayIn chess.com INT 4 Gata Kamsky Eduardo Iturrizaga Bonelli Draw: 1/2-1/2 30 Open
742 2024-07-17 CrunchLabs Masters PlayIn chess.com INT 3 Santosh Gujrathi Vidit Gata Kamsky Draw: 1/2-1/2 31 Open
743 2024-07-17 CrunchLabs Masters PlayIn chess.com INT 2 Prraneeth Vuppala Gata Kamsky Won: 0-1 43 Open
744 2024-07-17 CrunchLabs Masters PlayIn chess.com INT 1 Gata Kamsky Kamil Dragun Won: 1-0 33 Open
745 2024-07-16 Titled Tue 16th Jul Early chess.com INT 9 Denis Lazavik Gata Kamsky Won: 0-1 35 Open
746 2024-07-16 Titled Tue 16th Jul Early chess.com INT 8 Egor Baskakov Gata Kamsky Won: 0-1 30 Open
747 2024-07-16 Titled Tue 16th Jul Late chess.com INT 8 Gata Kamsky Javokhir Sindarov Lost: 0-1 32 Open
748 2024-07-16 Titled Tue 16th Jul Late chess.com INT 7 Shamil Arslanov Gata Kamsky Won: 0-1 25 Open
749 2024-07-16 Titled Tue 16th Jul Early chess.com INT 7 Gata Kamsky Amir hossein Doroodgar Draw: 1/2-1/2 54 Open
750 2024-07-16 Titled Tue 16th Jul Early chess.com INT 6 Isaak Parpiev Gata Kamsky Draw: 1/2-1/2 75 Open
  1. vs Andrej LjepicWon · 1-0White · 2024-07-30 · Round 11Titled Tue 30th Jul Late
  2. vs Leonid StarozhilovWon · 1-0White · 2024-07-30 · Round 11Titled Tue 30th Jul Early
  3. vs Dmitry GoltsevLost · 1-0Black · 2024-07-30 · Round 10Titled Tue 30th Jul Early
  4. vs Olexandr BortnykLost · 1-0Black · 2024-07-30 · Round 10Titled Tue 30th Jul Late
  5. vs Hikaru NakamuraDraw · ½–½White · 2024-07-23 · Round 9Titled Tue 23rd Jul Late
  6. vs Arystanbek UrazayevDraw · ½–½Black · 2024-07-23 · Round 9Titled Tue 23rd Jul Early
  7. vs Daniel NaroditskyDraw · ½–½Black · 2024-07-23 · Round 8Titled Tue 23rd Jul Late
  8. vs Yerlan RakhimgaliyevLost · 0-1White · 2024-07-23 · Round 8Titled Tue 23rd Jul Early
  9. vs Hikaru NakamuraDraw · ½–½White · 2024-07-23 · Round 7Titled Tue 23rd Jul Early
  10. vs Bogdan-Daniel DeacDraw · ½–½Black · 2024-07-23 · Round 7Titled Tue 23rd Jul Late
  11. vs Matyas MarekWon · 0-1Black · 2024-07-23 · Round 6Titled Tue 23rd Jul Early
  12. vs Jeffery XiongDraw · ½–½White · 2024-07-23 · Round 6Titled Tue 23rd Jul Late
  13. vs Viktor ShapiroWon · 0-1Black · 2024-07-23 · Round 5Titled Tue 23rd Jul Late
  14. vs Moritz WeishaeutelDraw · ½–½Black · 2024-07-23 · Round 5Titled Tue 23rd Jul Early
  15. vs Balazs CsonkaWon · 1-0White · 2024-07-23 · Round 4Titled Tue 23rd Jul Early
  16. vs Hamed WafaWon · 0-1Black · 2024-07-23 · Round 4Titled Tue 23rd Jul Late
  17. vs Raem ShermanWon · 1-0White · 2024-07-23 · Round 3Titled Tue 23rd Jul Late
  18. vs Nicodim-Cosmin StepanencuWon · 0-1Black · 2024-07-23 · Round 3Titled Tue 23rd Jul Early
  19. vs Vladimir GoncharovWon · 1-0White · 2024-07-23 · Round 2Titled Tue 23rd Jul Early
  20. vs Aleksandr Domalchuk-JonassonWon · 0-1Black · 2024-07-23 · Round 2Titled Tue 23rd Jul Late
  21. vs Diana PreobrazhenskayaWon · 0-1Black · 2024-07-23 · Round 1Titled Tue 23rd Jul Early
  22. vs Maksims GolubovskisWon · 1-0White · 2024-07-23 · Round 1Titled Tue 23rd Jul Late
  23. vs Dmitriy KushkoWon · 0-1Black · 2024-07-23 · Round 11Titled Tue 23rd Jul Early
  24. vs Vasif DurarbayliLost · 1-0Black · 2024-07-23 · Round 11Titled Tue 23rd Jul Late
  25. vs Etienne BacrotDraw · ½–½White · 2024-07-23 · Round 10Titled Tue 23rd Jul Late
  26. vs Daniil PlyasunovWon · 1-0White · 2024-07-23 · Round 10Titled Tue 23rd Jul Early
  27. vs Pa IniyanLost · 1-0Black · 2024-07-19 · Round 1.4CrunchLab Masters Div 3 W
  28. vs Pa IniyanLost · 0-1White · 2024-07-19 · Round 1.3CrunchLab Masters Div 3 W
  29. vs Velimir IvicDraw · ½–½Black · 2024-07-19 · Round 1.2CrunchLab Masters Div 3 L
  30. vs Pa IniyanLost · 1-0Black · 2024-07-19 · Round 1.2CrunchLab Masters Div 3 W
  31. vs Velimir IvicLost · 0-1White · 2024-07-19 · Round 1.1CrunchLab Masters Div 3 L
  32. vs Pa IniyanWon · 1-0White · 2024-07-19 · Round 1.1CrunchLab Masters Div 3 W
  33. vs Dmitry FrolyanovWon · 1-0White · 2024-07-18 · Round 1.3Crunchlabs Play-In Match D3
  34. vs Dmitry FrolyanovDraw · ½–½Black · 2024-07-18 · Round 1.2Crunchlabs Play-In Match D3
  35. vs Dmitry FrolyanovWon · 1-0White · 2024-07-18 · Round 1.1Crunchlabs Play-In Match D3
  36. vs Peter ProhaszkaDraw · ½–½White · 2024-07-17 · Round 9CrunchLabs Masters PlayIn
  37. vs Levon AronianLost · 1-0Black · 2024-07-17 · Round 8CrunchLabs Masters PlayIn
  38. vs Felix BlohbergerDraw · ½–½White · 2024-07-17 · Round 7CrunchLabs Masters PlayIn
  39. vs Maxim MatlakovLost · 1-0Black · 2024-07-17 · Round 6CrunchLabs Masters PlayIn
  40. vs David ParavyanWon · 1-0White · 2024-07-17 · Round 5CrunchLabs Masters PlayIn
  41. vs Eduardo Iturrizaga BonelliDraw · ½–½White · 2024-07-17 · Round 4CrunchLabs Masters PlayIn
  42. vs Santosh Gujrathi ViditDraw · ½–½Black · 2024-07-17 · Round 3CrunchLabs Masters PlayIn
  43. vs Prraneeth VuppalaWon · 0-1Black · 2024-07-17 · Round 2CrunchLabs Masters PlayIn
  44. vs Kamil DragunWon · 1-0White · 2024-07-17 · Round 1CrunchLabs Masters PlayIn
  45. vs Denis LazavikWon · 0-1Black · 2024-07-16 · Round 9Titled Tue 16th Jul Early
  46. vs Egor BaskakovWon · 0-1Black · 2024-07-16 · Round 8Titled Tue 16th Jul Early
  47. vs Javokhir SindarovLost · 0-1White · 2024-07-16 · Round 8Titled Tue 16th Jul Late
  48. vs Shamil ArslanovWon · 0-1Black · 2024-07-16 · Round 7Titled Tue 16th Jul Late
  49. vs Amir hossein DoroodgarDraw · ½–½White · 2024-07-16 · Round 7Titled Tue 16th Jul Early
  50. vs Isaak ParpievDraw · ½–½Black · 2024-07-16 · Round 6Titled Tue 16th Jul Early

FIDE tournaments

DateTournamentTypeScore
2026-10-12Atyrau Open 2026 MASTERSClassical5½

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