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Presentation on Viswanathan Anand - The Chess Champion
Viswanathan Anand - Chess Champion
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Viswanathan Anand Chess
Champion
Viswanathan Anand is a famous Chess Player of
India. Viswanathan Anand, popularly known as
'Vishy, the Tiger from Madras' is the first Asian to
win the World Chess Championship title. He was
born on December 11, 1969 in Chennai to
Krishnamurthy Viswanathan and Susheela. His father
is a retired general manager, Southern Railways.
Anand completed his schooling from Don Bosco
school and finished his B.Com from Loyola College in
Chennai.
When he Start play chess
He started playing chess at the age of 6. He learned
the game from his mother because his brothers did
not have the patience to play chess with him. His
parents encouraged him and used to take him to the
Tal Chess club. Young Anand had an exceptional
memory power and an ability to grasp things fast
which made him excel in Chess.
In 1992, he won the formidable Reggio Emilia
tournament ahead of the Russian masters Garry
Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. He was the runner up
to Kasparov in World Championship final in 1995.
He beat Kasparov in the rapid chess tournament in
September 96 and Karpov in June 97 in Hamburg
Rapid Chess. Anand outplayed the most popular
chess software programme.
In September 2007 Anand again became World
Champion again by winning that year's FIDE World
Championship Tournament held in Mexico City. And
in 2008, Anand retained his World Class Chess title
with a draw against Vladmir Kramnik, Russia. With
this victory, he achieved the unique distinction of
winning this in three formats knockout format in
2000, tournament format in 2007 and match format
in 2008.
Anand has also received many awards; Arjuna Award
for Outstanding Indian Sportsman in 1985, Padma
Shri Award (1987), National Citizens Award and
Soviet Land Nehru Award in 1987, Rajiv Gandhi
Khel Ratna Award (19911992), Padma Bhushan
Award (2000), Chess Oscar 4 times (1997, 1998,
2003 and 2004) and so on. He wrote a book 'My
Best Games of Chess' for which he got the British
Chess Federation 'Book of the Year' Award in 1998.
Anand, who took revenge of his 2013 World
Championship loss as he defeated World No 1
Magnus Carlsen in their ninth round match on
Wednesday, was placed joint second at the start of
the final five rounds (11 to 15) on Thursday, but
came back strongly to bag the title on tiebreak after
a threeway tie with Russians Vladimir Fedoseev and
Ian Nepomniachtchi at 10.5 points from a possible
15.
Anand married Aruna in 1996 and she supports him
in his preparations for the tournaments. He lives in
Collado Mediano in Spain with Aruna. This genius,
although he has achieved so much still remains
simple in character.
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