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...in 2000, when I defeated Alexei Shirov at the World Chess Championship in Teheran to become the first Indian ever to win the title.

— Viswanathan Anand

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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.

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