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Michael Adams
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Full name Michael Adams
Country  England
Born (1971-11-17) 17 November 1971 (age 53)
Truro, Cornwall, England, UK
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2753
(#14 in the April 2014 FIDE rankings)
Peak rating 2761 (September 2013)

Michael Adams is a famous British chess player. He was born on November 17, 1971, in Truro, Cornwall, England. Michael became a Grandmaster in 1989. This is the highest title a chess player can get. He was once ranked as high as fourth in the world! This happened several times between 2000 and 2002.

Michael Adams' Chess Achievements

Michael Adams has done very well in important World Chess Championship tournaments. He almost won the FIDE World Chess Championship in 2004. He reached the final match but lost closely to Rustam Kasimdzhanov after some tie-break games.

Winning the British Chess Championship

Michael Adams won the British Chess Championship when he was only seventeen years old in 1989. He doesn't play in this tournament very often. However, he won it again (jointly with another player) in 1997. He also won it by himself in both 2010 and 2011.

In 2011, he played very well in the European Club Championship. He scored 6½ points out of 7 games. This showed he was playing at his best again. Even so, his results are not as steady as they used to be.

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