Michael Adams

Michael Adams is an English chess grandmaster, born on 17 November 1971 in Truro, Cornwall, and a nine time British Chess Champion. His highest ranking is world number four, reached several times between October 2000 and October 2002, and his peak rating of 2761 is the highest achieved by an English player. He became the world's youngest International Master at fifteen, and won his first British title in 1989 at seventeen. Several times a World Championship Candidate, he reached the semifinals in 1997, 1999 and 2000 and the final of the 2004 FIDE Championship, narrowly losing to Rustam Kasimdzhanov on tie-breaks. He shared first place with Viswanathan Anand at the 1993 Groningen Interzonal, and in 2023 he won the World Senior Chess Championship in the over fifty category. He co-wrote two books with his father about his early career.