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born 1969 India
Viswanathan Anand (born December 11, 1969), known popularly as "Vishy", is an Indian chess Grandmaster and former World Chess Champion. Anand was the first Indian to win the FIDE World Chess Championship in 2000 and since then he has won this Championship in 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2012.
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Since the 1990s technology has taken some of the sheen off the Russian trainers and their methods.
When I first visited Moscow in the late 1980s, I was so intimidated. I thought I could be checkmated by every cabdriver.
My dream is chess played in every school in India. The Soviets would include a chessboard along with the bride’s trousseau to ensure that the children born of that marriage knew the rules of chess.
I learned to play fast without agonizing about strategy or overanalyzing individual moves
What happens to you at the board begins to feel like it's happening to you in person.
When I started out, Indians did not have much interest in chess…Now India seems to spawn new chess academies every day.
To become a world chess champion.
The fact is he outplayed me. He just proved to be stronger.
When you lose, you really feel a sense of self … You actually feel that you are being taken apart, rather than just your pieces.
Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion.
Anything unusual that you can produce has quadruple, quintuple the value, precisely because your opponent is likely to do the predictable stuff, which is on a computer.
Age is part of it. For instance, I recognise that [Carlsen] is going to do certain things because he's 22 and there are certain things I can do because I'm 43.
I have what I think is an extremely Indian relationship with God....In Moscow before the tie breaker of the World Championship in May 2012, I again entreated God:Just stay on my side of the board.
One of the things I bring to my play is my Indian identity – my ability to shrug off a loss as destiny and hope for better tomorrow. I am often described as a “natural” or “intuitive player”.
I wasn't expecting him to be a gracious, so fair enough. The winner can say anything when he wins... so I guess we will just have to swallow it for now.
...in 2000, when I defeated Alexei Shirov at the World Chess Championship in Teheran to become the first Indian ever to win the title.
As a young kid sprouting a wispy moustache, I was sometimes dismissed by the Russians as an upstart. I have been referred to even as a “coffeehouse player”