What is Michael Adams?
{{Infobox chess player |playername = Michael Adams |image= Michael Adams Dortmunder Schachtage 2023.jpg |image_size=250px |caption= |birthname = Michael Adams |country = {{ENG}} |datebirth = {{Birth date and age|1971|11|17|df=y}} |placebirth = [[Truro]], [[Cornwall]], England, UK |deathdate = |deathplace = |title = [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]] |worldchampion = |womensworldchampion = |rating = 2753<br /><small>(#14 in the April 2014 [[FIDE]] rankings)</small> |peakrating = 2761 (September 2013) }} '''Michael Adams''' (born 17 November 1971 in [[Truro]], [[Cornwall]]) is a [[British people|British]] [[chess]] [[Grandmaster (chess)|grandmaster]] (1989). His highest ranking was world #4, achieved several times from October 2000 to October 2002.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ratings.fide.com/top_files.phtml?id=400041 |title=Adams, Michael (ENG) FIDE Top Chess Player |access-date=2010-08-20 |archive-date=2019-03-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190316153127/http://ratings.fide.com/top_files.phtml?id=400041 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He achieved a peak [[FIDE]] rating of 2755. [[File:Svidler Adams 06 08 2006.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Svidler]] ([[Russia]]) left, and Adams right, Dortmund 2006]] He has achieved superb results in [[World Chess Championship]] tournaments. At the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004, he reached the final, narrowly losing out to [[Rustam Kasimdzhanov]] in the tie-break games. Adams won the British Chess Championship in 1989 at the age of seventeen.<ref>Adams W. 1996. ''Chess in the fast lane''.</ref> Making only rare appearances, he won (jointly) in 1997, and won again in 2010 and 2011. A fine score of 6½/7 in the 2011 European Club Championship marked a return to form, but his results are no longer so consistent as they used to be. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=10900 Michael Adams profile at chessgames.com] {{DEFAULTSORT:Adams, Michael}} [[Category:1971 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:British