Chess - The Scotsman 24/05/2013 - News - Scotsman.com HE is the ultimate comeback kid. Gata Kamsky's victory in the US Championship in St Louis earlier this month, gave the 38-year-old New Yorker, a former Soviet prodigy, his fourth US title. But remarkably, Kamsky has now claimed three of those titles after a lengthy eight-year break from serious play. In 1991, at the age of 17, he won his first US title. Three years later, he was talked of as being a potential world championship challenger, and certainly he had the game to compete at the highest level alongside Kasparov, Karpov and Anand. But in 1996 he stunned everyone by suddenly giving up chess. Then after eight years in law school, he came back just as suddenly as he had left. In 2007, Kamsky won the FIDE World Cup, entitling him to play former champion Veselin Topalov for the right to become the world championship challenger. Although Topalov won narrowly, it was clear Kamsky was back to his best. But despite winning his fourth US title, he's again talking retirement from top-level chess, although not for another couple of years yet, when he reaches 40. Until then, Kamsky is cramming in as much chess as he can, and he's back in action this week playing in the super-strong FIDE Thessaloniki Grand Prix in Greece where he made a winning start. G Kamsky - L Dominguez Thessaloniki Grand Prix, (1) Sicilian Najdorf 1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 d6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 Nf6 5 Nc3 a6 6 Be3 Ng4 7 Bc1 Nf6 8 a4 Nc6 9 Be2 g6 10 Be3 Bg7 11 0-0 0-0 12 Qd2 Bd7 13 f3 Nxd4 14 Bxd4 Qa5 15 Rfd1 Kh8 16 Nb1 Qxd2 17 Nxd2 Be6 18 a5 Rfc8 19 c3 Nd7 20 Ra4 Rc7 21 Be3 Kg8 22 Rb4 Kf8 23 Kf2 Rac8 24 g4 Ne5 25 Kg3 Nc6 26 Ra4 Ne5 27 f4 Nc4 28 Bxc4 Bxc4 29 Nxc4 Rxc4 30 Rxc4 Rxc4 31 e5 Rc6 32 Kf3 f5 33 gxf5 dxe5 34 fxg6 hxg6 35 Rd7 exf4 36 Bf2 Be5 37 Rxb7 Ke8 38 Ke4 Bc7 39 Bb6! Re6+ 40 Kf3 Bd6 41 b4 Re5 42 Bd4 Rh5 43 h4 Kd8 44 Rb6 Rxh4 45 Rxd6+ 1-0