Talk:Gata Kamsky

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1 old talk
2 When was Kamsky rated third in the world?
3 Nigel Short claims his life was threatened and there was cheating in their match
4 WikiProject class rating
5 FIDE copies portion of this article

[edit] old talk

Are people sure that his place of birth is Tatarstan? He is certainly a Crimean Tatar, but they were deported en masse to Soviet Central Asia after WW2 for collaboration. However Tatar is a term which has sometimes been used rather loosely. The Crimean Tatars are not all that closely akin to the Kazan or Volga Tatars, the inhabitants of Tatarstan. If nobody responds in a reasonable time I will change. PatGallacher 16:37, 2005 Jun 10 (UTC)

Pat, you are absolutely wrong. Gata Kamsky is certainly not a Crimean Tatar. There are many (in fact, over a million) Kazan or Volga Tatars living in Central Asia. He is a Kazan Tatar. I used to know his father, Rustam. Rustam told me once that he was born in Tatarstan. His real last name is Sabirov, "Kamsky" was originally just a stage pseudonym of Rustam's parents, who worked in a Tatar theater in Orenburg. 66.65.129.159 (talk) 23:57, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Somebody named Shanes removed the pucture of Kamsky on September 18. That picture was taken by my son, Peter Aravena Sloan, and is from his website. Wikipedia has our permission to re-post it. I do not understand what gave Shanes the right to remove it.

See:

21:31, 18 September 2005 Shanes (rm image deleted due to lack of copyright info and without any source given)

Sam Sloan 16:08, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] When was Kamsky rated third in the world?

So far as I know, his highest ever rank was fourth on the July 1995 FIDE list. The following link has the top ten from then: http://chess.eusa.ed.ac.uk/Chess/Trivia/AlltimeList.html.

[edit] Nigel Short claims his life was threatened and there was cheating in their match

Does anyone know details? Happily ever after 11:20, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

See the Rustam Kamsky page. Peter Ballard 02:26, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject class rating

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