Biography of Michael Adams

Name:	Michael Adams
Year of birth:	1971
Country:	ENG
Title:	GM
(Current!?) Elo:	2698
Website:	-
On Fide playerlist:	yes
Biography	Michael Adams (born November 17, 1971) is an English chess player. On the July 2004 FIDE rating list he is number six in the world with an Elo rating of 2738, making him the English number one. Adams won the British Championship in 1989 at the age of 17. He won it again in 1997, jointly with Matthew Sadler. In 1993 he finished equal first (with Viswanathan Anand) in the Groningen tournament to determine challengers for the Professional Chess Association World Championship title. This took him to the knock-out stage, where he beat Sergei Tiviakov in the first round, but lost to Anand in the second. In 1994 he played in the Candidates of the FIDE World Championship, losing to Boris Gelfand in the first round. In 1997, he took part in the FIDE World Championship, which, for the first time, was a large knock-out event, the winner of which would play a match against reigning champion, Anatoly Karpov. This tournament included most of the world's top players (Gary Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik and Gata Kamsky were the only notable absentees), and Adams won short matches against Tamaz Giorgadze, Sergei Tiviakov, Peter Svidler, Loek van Wely, Nigel Short, before coming up against Anand in the final round. Their four games at normal time controls were all drawn, as were four rapidplay games at quicker time limits, before Anand won the sudden-death game, knocking Adams out. Among his other notable results are joint first at Dos Hermanas in 1995 (with Kamsky and Karpov), joint first at Dortmund in 1998 (with Kramnik and Svidler), and clear first at Dos Hermanas in 1999, ahead of Kramnik, Anand, Svidler, Karpov, Veselin Topalov, Judit Polgar and others. Lets hope that the coming new year treats the pleasant Englishman better than the out going one. Source: Wikipedia
Tournaments:
Tournament (14) Final ranking Hoogovenstoernooi 1991, Grootmeester A groep, Round Robin 2 Hoogovenstoernooi 1993, Knock Out groep, Knock Out 17 Hoogovenstoernooi 1994, Match Gelfand-Adams, Kandidaten Match 2 Hoogovenstoernooi 1995, Knock Out groep, Knock Out 9 Hoogovenstoernooi 1996, Grootmeester A groep, Round Robin 4 Hoogovenstoernooi 1998, Grootmeester A groep, Round Robin 3 Corustoernooi 2000, Grootmeester A groep, Round Robin 6 Corustoernooi 2001, Grootmeester A groep, Round Robin 5 Corustoernooi 2002, Grootmeester A groep, Round Robin 3 Corustoernooi 2004, Grootmeester A groep, Round Robin 2 Corustoernooi 2005, Grootmeester A groep, Round Robin 4 Corustoernooi 2006, Grootmeester A groep, Round Robin 3 Corustoernooi 2008, Grootmeester A Groep, Round Robin 7 Corustoernooi 2009, Grootmeester A groep, Round Robin 11