The match on this page, sponsored by Intel and organized by Jose Fraguela Gil, Juan Manuel Auyanet, Mauricio Perea and others under the auspices of PCA (Professional Chess Association), was held at the Centro Insular de Cultura in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain, 9-22 March 1995. Rest days: 12, 16 and 20 March. The match was held in order to have a challenger for PCA World Champion Garry Kasparov, who along with Nigel Short had departed from FIDE in 1993.

The opening ceremony was held in the Real Club Nautico. Anand had qualified for the match from the Anand - Adams PCA Semifinal (1994), and Kamsky had qualified from the Kamsky - Short PCA Semifinal (1994). Anand was seconded by Artur Yusupov and Elizbar Ubilava, and also assisted by his mother Sushila Viswanathan, while Kamsky was seconded by Roman Dzindzichashvili and Alexander Ivanov, and assisted by his father Rustam Kamsky. Anand's camp stayed in a peaceful 5-star hotel in the hills outside Las Palmas. The match was best of 12 games or the first to achieve 6½ points. Time controls: 2 hours for the first 40 moves, 3 hours for the first 60 moves and 3½ hours for the whole game. Prize fund: $100,000. Chief arbiter Carlos Falcon Martin was assaulted by a taxi driver the night before Game 11, and was hospitalized with complicated leg and rib fractures.

Las Palmas, Spain, 9 March - 22 March 1995

       Age Elo   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
Anand   25 2715  0 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1  6½
Kamsky  20 2710  1 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 0  4½

"Viswanathan Anand of India has defeated Gata Kamsky of Brooklyn to become the challenger who will face Gary Kasparov for the Professional Chess Association's world championship. The two will meet in a title match, starting on Sept. 10, in Cologne, Germany. The 20-year-old Kamsky is not out of title competition altogether, however. At a time and place still uncertain, he is to play Anatoly Karpov for the International Chess Federation's champsionship. On Wednesday, the 25-year-old Anand eliminated Kamsky from the P.C.A. series by winning Game 11 of the candidates match in Las Palmas, the Canary Islands. Anand won Games 3, 9 and 11, all with White, in amassing his 6½-4½ score. Kamsky's sole victory, in Game 1, was tainted in that Anand inexplicably overstepped the time limit in a winning position. Kamsky generally tried to keep Anand away from the wide-open tactical melees that the brilliant Indian firebrand revels in. But wise though that strategy was, it failed when Anand showed just how much at home he could be in positional games." (Byrne)

Sources

Mark Weeks' website (https://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/94...)
TWIC 23, 12 March 1995 (https://theweekinchess.com/html/twi...)
TWIC 24, 19 March 1994 (https://theweekinchess.com/html/twi...)
TWIC 25, 25 March 1995 (https://theweekinchess.com/html/twi...)
FIDE rating list January 1995 (https://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo19...)
Tidskrift för Schack, April 1995, pp. 186-191 (https://tfsarkiv.schack.se/pdf/1995...)
Jaque 398, April 1995, pp. 8-10, 16-28, 41-45 (http://www.bartelski.pl/olimpbase/l...)
Gert Ligterink in De Volkskrant, 20 March 1995, p. 20 (https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/v...)
Gert Ligterink in De Volkskrant, 22 March 1995, p. 15 (https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/v...)
Gert Ligterink in De Volkskrant, 23 March 1995, p. 18 (https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/v...)
Robert Huntington in Chess Life, July 1995, pp. 39-42 (https://uscf1-nyc1.aodhosting.com/C...)
Leonid Shamkovich in Chess Life, July 1995, pp. 43-51 (https://uscf1-nyc1.aodhosting.com/C...)
Robert Byrne in The New York Times, 28 March 1995 (https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/28/...)

Original collections: Game Collection: WCC Index (Anand-Kamsky 1995) by User: Hesam7 and Game Collection: Anand - Kamsky PCA Final by User: Tabanus. Game dates (March 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22) are from TWIC, De Volkskrant and various newspapers at Google Books.