Grandmaster Gata Kamsky played in the Marshall Chess Club Tuesday
Night Masters Tournament two days ago.

This is the first time that Kamsky has played in a USCF rated
tournament in ten years!!!

Kamsky tied for first, defeating Grandmaster Blatny and scoring 3-1
against a field with an average rating of 2425. This gave him a
performancy rating of about 2625. This is a minor drop from his last
published rating of 2784 but it is a great result for a player who has
not played since his world championship match with Karpov, except for
his three game match with future world champion Khalifman in 1999.

As I reported on my website and at
http://www.samsloan.com/gatafide.htm Gata Kamsky was in law school
(not medical school) and was scheduled to graduate in May. He did not
want to be bothered with chess until then.

May has now passed and this undoubtedly explains why Kamsky is
suddenly playing.

Meanwhile, I have received several telephone calls from Roustam Kamsky
saying that Gata does not want to run for President of FIDE and I
should say that my previous report was a joke.

I will say however that from the e-mails I have received if Gata
Kamsky were really to run for President of FIDE he would be elected
overwhelmingly.

The cross-table of the tournament in which Gata Kamsky just played is
posted at http://www.newyorkmasters.com/xtables/xtable106.html

I hope that John Fernandez took his picture, because Gata looks vastly
different from the last time in which he played.

Sam Sloan