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GM Viswanathan Anand Profile
(Viswanathan Anand Biography)

From the FIDE: Anand, Viswanathan FIDE Chess Player Personal Page - Chess Player Information. 5000017, Wang, Yue, M. Federation, India. FIDE title, Grand Master. Current rating: 2791. B-Year, 1969 ...
Viswanathan Anand is an Indian chess grandmaster and the current World Chess Champion. Viswanathan Anand, popularly known as 'Vishy, the Tiger from Madras' is the first Asian Chess player 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.

«The Chess Drum - 2007
Viswanathan Anand getting
set to demolish Lev Aronian
Photo by Ali Nihat Yazici»
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credit: Ali Nihat Yazici
ARS, N.Y./ADAGP, Paris
     The Chess Drum - 2007 Viswanathan Anand getting set to demolish Lev Aronian Photo by Ali Nihat Yazici Image Copyright © Image credit: Ali Nihat Yazici ARS, N.Y./ADAGP, Paris


Viswanathan (Vishy) Anand became the youngest Indian champion in 1984 at the age of sixteen. In 1987, he became the first Asian Chess player to win the World Junior Championship at Baguio City in Philippines ... First Indian in 1987, when he was nineteen years old. In 1992, he won the very strong 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 1996 and Karpov in June 1997 in Hamburg Rapid Chess.
Anand won the FIDE World Chess Championship in 2000, at a time when the world title was split. He became the undisputed World Chess Champion in 2007 and defended his title against Vladimir Kramnik in 2008. With this win, he became the first player in chess history to have won the World Championship in three different formats: Knockout, Tournament, and Match. He will next defend his title in the World Chess Championship 2009 against the winner of the challenger match between Veselin Topalov and Gata Kamsky.

«From Wikimedia Commons
Viswanathan Anand 2006»
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     From Wikimedia Commons Viswanathan Anand 2006 Image Copyright © Image credit: commons.wikimedia.org/ ARS, N.Y./ADAGP, Paris


Vishy Anand did not take part in the Corus Chess 2009 Tournament; but the "XXVIth Ciudad de Linares" will be a significant opportunity for the Indian Grandmaster to proof his leading role. In the absence of Veselin Topalov (N° 1 in the January 2009 FIDE Rating List), Viswanathan Anand (N° 2 in the January 2009 FIDE Rating List) appears logically as the favourite of the new edition of Linares Tournament. By the way, Vishy Anand was the winner of the "Wimbledom of Chess" (Linares) twice, in 2007 and 2008.

«businessworld.in - grand
master Viswanathan Anand»
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~ "SATHYA SAI BABA - LIFE, LOVE & SPIRITUALITY -
Photograph of Grandmaster Viswanathan ANAND ~
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