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Viswanathan Anand

Full name Viswanathan Anand
Country Flag of India India
Born December 11, 1969 (1969-12-11) (age 37)
Chennai, India
Title Grandmaster (1988)
World Champion 2000-2002 (FIDE), 2007-present (undisputed)
FIDE rating 2792 (No. 1 on the July 2007 FIDE ratings list)[1]
Peak rating 2803 (April 2006)
This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves.

Viswanathan Anand (Tamil: விசுவநாதன் ஆனந்த், IPA: ʋiɕ'ʋəˌnɑˌt̪ʰən ɑnˌənd̪) (born December 11, 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster and the current world champion. Anand is one of only four players in history to break the 2800 mark on the FIDE rating list and he has been among the top three ranked players in classical time control chess in the world continuously since 1997.[2] Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1495x1317, 242 KB) en: Viswanathan Anand – Indian () grandmaster. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_India. ... December 11 is the 345th day of the year (346th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ... , “Madras” redirects here. ... The title International Grandmaster is awarded to superb chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. It is a lifetime title, in chess literature usually abbreviated as GM or IGM (this is in contrast to WGM for Woman Grandmaster and IM for International Master). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Chess Go The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess and Go. ... Chess Go The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess and Go. ... Chessboard notation Algebraic chess notation is used to record and describe the moves in a game of chess. ... Tamil ( ; IPA ) is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamils in India and Sri Lanka, with smaller communities of speakers in many other countries. ... Articles with similar titles include the NATO phonetic alphabet, which has also informally been called the “International Phonetic Alphabet”. For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words, see IPA chart for English. ... December 11 is the 345th day of the year (346th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ... For other uses, see Chess (disambiguation). ... The title Grandmaster is awarded to world-class chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain. ... The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national chess federations around the world. ...


In the April 2007 FIDE Elo rating list, Anand was ranked first in the world for the first time,[3] and he retained the number one spot in the July 2007 list with a rating of 2792, a lead of 23 points. He is only the sixth person to head the rating list since its inception in 1970; the other five being Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik and Topalov. Viswanathan Anand became, for the first time, the undisputed World Chess Champion on September 29, 2007, after winning the 2007 World Chess Championship Tournament held in Mexico City.[4] Anand finished the tournament with a score of 9/14, not losing a single game and a full point ahead of the rest of the players. Chess Go The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess and Go. ... Robert James Bobby Fischer (born March 9, 1943) is a United States-born chess Grandmaster who in 1972 became the only US-born chessplayer to become the official World Chess Champion. ... Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (Russian: ) (born May 23, 1951) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. ... Garry Kimovich Kasparov (IPA: ; Russian: ) (born April 13, 1963, in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR) (now Azerbaijan) is a Russian chess grandmaster, and former World Chess Champion. ... Vladimir Kramnik (Владимир Крамник), born June 25, 1975, is a Russian chess player. ... Veselin Topalov 2005 Veselin Topalov (IPA: , Bulgarian: ) (born March 15, 1975) is a Bulgarian chess player. ... is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st Century. ... Viswanathan Anand of India became the undisputed World Chess Champion on September 29, 2007. ... Nickname: Motto: Capital en movimiento Location of Mexico City in south central Mexico Coordinates: , Country Federal entity Boroughs The 16 delegaciones Founded c. ...

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Chess career

Anand's rise in the Indian chess world was meteoric. National level success came early for him when he won the National Sub-Junior Chess Championship with a score of 9/9 in 1983 at the age of fourteen. He became the youngest Indian to win the International Master Title at the age of fifteen, in 1984. At the age of sixteen he became the National Champion and won that title two more times. He played games at blitz speed. In 1987, he became the first Indian to win the World Junior Chess Championship. In 1988, at the age of eighteen, he became India's first Grandmaster. The title International Master is awarded to outstanding chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. The title is open to both men and women. ... Blitz chess (also known as speed chess or blitzkrieg chess) is a game of chess where each side is given very little time to make all of their moves. ... The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 event (players must have been under 20 years old on the 1st of January in the year of competition). ...


"Vishy", as he is sometimes called by his friends, burst upon the upper echelons of the chess scene in the early 1990s, winning such tournaments as Reggio Emilia 1991 (ahead of Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov). Playing at such a high level did not slow him down either, and he continued to play games at blitz speed. In 1991, he made the quarter finals of the FIDE Candidates Tournament, before losing narrowly to Anatoly Karpov.[5] Country Italy Region Emilia-Romagna Province Reggio Emilia (RE) Mayor Graziano Delrio (from July 1, 2004) Elevation 58 m Area 231 km² Population  - Total 141,383  - Density 612/km² Time zone CET, UTC+1 Coordinates Gentilic Reggiani Dialing code 0522 Postal code 42100 Frazioni see list Patron San Prospero  - Day... Garry Kimovich Kasparov (IPA: ; Russian: ) (born April 13, 1963, in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR) (now Azerbaijan) is a Russian chess grandmaster, and former World Chess Champion. ... Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (Russian: ) (born May 23, 1951) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. ... The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national chess federations around the world. ... The Candidates Tournament was an annual chess tournament in which various chess players play against each other. ...


Anand qualified for the Professional Chess Association World Chess Championship final by winning the candidates matches against Michael Adams and Gata Kamsky.[6] In 1995, he played a title match against Kasparov in New York City's World Trade Center. After an opening run of eight draws (a record for the opening of a world championship match), Anand won game nine using a splendid sacrifice on the queen side, but then lost four of the next five. He lost the match 10.5 - 7.5. The Professional Chess Association (PCA), which existed between 1993 and 1996, was a rival organisation to FIDE, the international chess organization. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Michael Adams (born November 17, 1971 in Truro, Cornwall, England) is an International Grandmaster of chess. ... Gata Kamsky (Tatar:Äžataulla Kamski) (born June 2, 1974) is an American chess grandmaster. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... For other uses, see World Trade Center (disambiguation). ...


Anand won three consecutive Advanced Chess tournaments in Leon, Spain after Garry Kasparov introduced this form of chess in 1998, and is widely recognized as the world's best Advanced Chess player, where humans may consult a computer to aid in their calculation of variations. Advanced Chess (sometimes called cyborg chess or centaur chess) is a relatively new form of chess, first introduced by grandmaster Garry Kasparov, with the objective of a human player and a computer chess program playing as a team against other such pairs. ... Cathedral of León The Palacio de los Guzmanes, the provincial parliament (Diputación) in the capital Old local council Wikimedia Commons has media related to: León The city of León, located at 42. ... Garry Kimovich Kasparov (IPA: ; Russian: ) (born April 13, 1963, in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR) (now Azerbaijan) is a Russian chess grandmaster, and former World Chess Champion. ...


Anand's recent tournament successes include the prestigious Corus chess tournament in 2006 (tied with Veselin Topalov), Dortmund in 2004, and Linares in 2007. He has won the annually held Monaco Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess Championships in years 1994, 1997, 2003, 2005 and 2006. He is the only player to have won five titles of the Corus chess tournament. He is also the only player to win the blind and rapid sections of the Amber tournament in the same year (and he did this twice Рin 1997 and 2005). He is the first player to have achieved victories in each of the three big chess supertournaments: Corus (1998, 2003, 2004, 2006), Linares (1998, 2007), Dortmund (1996, 2000, 2004). The Corus chess tournament takes place every year, usually in January, in a small town called Wijk aan Zee, part of the larger Beverwijkin the province of North Holland in the Netherlands. ... The Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting is an elite chess tournament held every July in Dortmund, Germany. ... The annual Linares chess tournament, usually played around the end of February, takes its name from the city of Linares in the Ja̩n province of Andalusia, Spain, in which it is held. ... Blindfold Chess is a way to play chess, whereby play is conducted without the players having sight of the positions of the pieces, or any physical contact with them. ... The Corus chess tournament takes place every year, usually in January, in a small town called Wijk aan Zee, part of the larger Beverwijkin the province of North Holland in the Netherlands. ... The annual Linares chess tournament, usually played around the end of February, takes its name from the city of Linares in the Ja̩n province of Andalusia, Spain, in which it is held. ... The Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting is an elite chess tournament held every July in Dortmund, Germany. ...


In 2007 he won the Grenkeleasing Rapid championship, which he won for the tenth time defeating Armenian GM Levon Aronian. Incidentally, just few days back Aronian had defeated Anand in Chess960 final. Levon Aronian (born October 6, 1982) is an Armenian chess player. ... One of 960 possible starting positions. ...


Anand has won the Chess Oscar in 1997, 1998, 2003, and 2004, becoming the third non-Russian player, after Bent Larsen of Denmark and Bobby Fisher of USA, to win the Oscar. The Chess Oscar is awarded to the year's best player according to a world-wide poll of leading chess critics, writers, and journalists conducted by the Russian chess magazine 64. Chess Oscar is an international award given to the best chess player every year. ... Bent Larsen Bent Larsen (born March 4, 1935) is a Danish chess player. ...


His game collection, My Best Games of Chess, was published in the year 1998 and was updated in 2001.


In March 2007, Anand won the Linares chess tournament and it was widely believed that he would be ranked world No.1 in the FIDE Elo rating list for April 2007. However, Anand was placed No.2 in the initial list released because the Linares result was not included. FIDE subsequently announced that the Linares results would be included after all,[7] making Anand number one in the April 2007 list.[8] The annual Linares chess tournament, usually played around the end of February, takes its name from the city of Linares in the Jaén province of Andalusia, Spain, in which it is held. ... The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national chess federations around the world. ... The ELO rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess and Go. ...


World chess champion

After several near misses, Anand finally won the FIDE World Chess Championship in 2000 after defeating Alexei Shirov 3.5 - 0.5 in the final match held at Teheran, thereby becoming the first Indian to win that title. He lost the title when Ruslan Ponomariov won the FIDE knockout tournament in 2002. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Alexei Shirov Alexei Shirov (Aleksejs Å irovs, Алексе́й Широв) (born July 4, 1972 in Riga, Latvia), is one of the top chess grandmasters in the world today. ... Tehran (also spelled Teheran) (تهران in Persian), population 8,000,000 (metropolitan: 10,000,000), is the capital of Iran and one of the major world cities. ... Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukrainian: ; Russian: ) (born October 11, 1983) is a Ukrainian chess player and former FIDE world champion. ...


He tied for second with Peter Svidler in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005 with 8.5 points out of 14 games, lagging 1.5 points behind the winner, Veselin Topalov. Peter Svidler (Пётр Свидлер; Pyotr Svidler, born June 17, 1976, in Leningrad) is a Russian chess grandmaster. ... The FIDE World Chess Championship 2005 took place in San Luis Province in Argentina from September 27 to October 16, 2005. ...


Viswanathan Anand participated in the FIDE World Championship Tournament in Mexico City, Mexico, during September of 2007. On September 29, 2007, Viswanathan Anand finished first in the tournament, becoming the World Chess Champion. He won the double round-robin tournament with a final score of 9/14 points, a full point ahead of joint second place finishers Vladimir Kramnik and Boris Gelfand. A match is currently scheduled for Anand to defend the title against former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik in 2008.


World rapid chess champion

In October 2003, the governing body of chess, FIDE, organized a rapid time control tournament in Cap d'Agde and billed it as the World Rapid Chess Championship. Each player had 25 minutes at the start of the game, with an additional 10 seconds after each move. Anand won this event ahead of ten of the other top twelve players in the world, beating Kramnik in the final. Anand is widely regarded as the world's finest Rapid Chess player. He has won countless major rapid chess events defeating all top players in the process. His main recent titles in this category are at: Corsica (six years in a row from 1999 through 2005), Mainz (seven years in a row from 2000 through 2006), Leon 2005, Eurotel 2002, Fujitsu Giants 2002 and the Melody Amber (five times – and he won the rapid portion of Melody Amber seven times). In the Melody Amber 2007, Anand did not lose a single game in the rapid section, and scored 8.5/11, two more than the runners-up. His performance in the rapid section was 2939.[9] In virtually all classical (regular time control) games that Anand plays, he has more time left than his opponent at the end of the game. He lost on time only one game, to Gata Kamsky. Otherwise, he took advantage of the rule allowing players in time trouble to use dashes instead of the move notation during the last four minutes only once, in the game Anand - Svidler at the MTel Masters 2006. [10] The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national chess federations around the world. ... Cap dAgde is the seaside resort of Agde, France, at the north-west of the Mediterranean sea in the département of Hérault in the région of Languedoc-Roussillon. ... The Melody Amber chess tournament, which uniquely combines blind chess and speed chess is an annual invitation-only event for some of the worlds best players. ... The Melody Amber chess tournament, which uniquely combines blind chess and speed chess is an annual invitation-only event for some of the worlds best players. ...


On 30 September 2007, Anand became the FIDE World Champion for the second time in a field populated by the entire gamut of competition in world chess. is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st Century. ...


Chess titles

  • 1983 National Sub-Junior Chess Champion - age 14
  • 1984 International Master - age 15
  • 1985 Indian National Champion - age 16
  • 1987 World Junior Chess Champion, Grandmaster
  • 2000 FIDE World Chess Champion
  • 2003 FIDE World Rapid Chess Champion
  • 2007 FIDE World Chess Champion (Undisputed)

Awards

Anand has received many awards.

  • Arjuna award for Outstanding Indian Sportsman in Chess in 1985
  • Padma Shri, National Citizens Award and Soviet Land Nehru Award in 1987
  • The inaugural Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, India's highest sporting honour in the year 1991-1992.
  • British Chess Federation 'Book of the Year' Award in 1998 for his book My Best Games of Chess
  • Padma Bhushan in 2000
  • Jameo de Oro the highest honour given by the Government of Lanzarote in Spain on 25th April 2001. The award is given only to illustrious personalities with extra ordinary achievements.
  • Chess Oscar (1997, 1998, 2003 and 2004)
  • Sportstar Millenium Award in 1998, from India's premier Sports magazine for being the sportperson of the millennium

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Sample game

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a8 b8 c8 d8 e8 f8 g8 h8
a7 b7 c7 d7 e7 f7 g7 h7
a6 b6 c6 d6 e6 f6 g6 h6
a5 b5 c5 d5 e5 f5 g5 h5
a4 b4 c4 d4 e4 f4 g4 h4
a3 b3 c3 d3 e3 f3 g3 h3
a2 b2 c2 d2 e2 f2 g2 h2
a1 b1 c1 d1 e1 f1 g1 h1
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In this position after move 36 in the 2000 FIDE World Championship game between Viswanathan Anand and Viktor Bologan, Anand (White), in an apparently worse position, finds an intuitive sacrifice that leads to a winning attack.

On his way to winning the FIDE World Chess Championship in 2000, Anand defeated Grandmaster Viktor Bologan with the white pieces. Here are the moves (analysis by Grandmaster Ljubomir Ftacnik): Image File history File links This image is used in the standard chess diagram template. ... Image File history File links This image is used in the standard chess diagram template. ... Image File history File links This image is used in the standard chess diagram template. ... Image File history File links This image is used in the standard chess diagram template. ... Image File history File links This image is used in the standard chess diagram template. ... Image File history File links This image is used in the standard chess diagram template. ... Image File history File links This image is used in the standard chess diagram template. ... Image File history File links This image is used in the standard chess diagram template. ... 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1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. c3 O-O 9. h3 Nb8 10. d4 Nbd7 11. Nbd2 Bb7 12. Bc2 Re8 13. Nf1 Bf8 14. Ng3 c5 15. d5 c4 16. Bg5 Qc7 17. Nf5 Kh8 18. g4 Ng8 19. Qd2 Nc5 20. Be3 Bc8 21. Ng3 Rb8 22. Kg2 a5 23. a3 Ne7 24. Rh1 Ng6 25. g5! b4!? Anand has an excellent kingside attack, so Bologan seeks counterplay with the sacrifice of a pawn. 26. axb4 axb4 27. cxb4 Na6 28. Ra4 Nf4+ 29. Bxf4 exf4 30. Nh5 Qb6 31. Qxf4 Nxb4 32. Bb1 Rb7 33. Ra3 Rc7 34. Rd1 Na6 35. Nd4 Qxb2 36. Rg3 c3 (see diagram) 37. Nf6!! Re5 If 37...gxf6, 38. gxf6 h6 39. Rg1! Qd2! 40. Qh4 leaves white with an irresistible initiative. 38. g6! fxg6 39. Nd7 Be7 40. Nxe5 dxe5 41. Qf7 h6 42. Qe8+ 1-0 [11]


Further reading

  • Viswanathan Anand, My Best Games of Chess (Gambit, 2001 (new edition))

References

  1. ^ Top 100 Players April 2007. Retrieved on April 15, 2007.
  2. ^ All Time Rankings. Retrieved on April 15, 2007.
  3. ^ Top 100 Players. Retrieved on April 15, 2007.
  4. ^ Viswanathan Anand regains world chess title. Retrieved on September 30, 2007
  5. ^ World Chess Championship 1991-93 Candidates Matches. Retrieved on April 15, 2007.
  6. ^ World Chess Championship 1994-95 PCA Candidates Matches. Retrieved on April 15, 2007.
  7. ^ ChessBase.com. Retrieved on April 15, 2007.
  8. ^ Top 100 Players April 2007. Retrieved on April 15, 2007.
  9. ^ ChessBase.com. Retrieved on April 15, 2007.
  10. ^ ChessBase.com. Retrieved on April 15, 2007.
  11. ^ chessgames.com. Retrieved on April 15, 2007.

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