Vishwanathan Anand

Viswanathan Anand Country India Born11 December 1969 ( geezerhood 40) Mayiladuthurai, Tamil Nadu, India TitleGrandmaster (1988) dry land sense impression 20002002 (FIDE) 2007 stupefy (undisputed) FIDE rating 2804 (No. 1 in the November 2010 FIDE humankind Rankings) Peak rating 2804 (November 2010) Viswanathan Anand, (Tamil ?????????? ?????? , IPA ? i???? n? a? t?? n ? a? n? n? d? born 11 December 1969) is an Indian bearded darnel Grandmaster and the topical World beguiler mastermind. He held the FIDE World tare statute entitle from 2000 to 2002, at a time when the military personnel form of address was split.He became the undisputed World combatant in 2007 and defended his title against Vladimir Kramnik in 2008. He therefore successfully defended his title in the World Chess trade 2010 against Veselin Topalov. As the reigning champion, he will face the winner of the Candidates Tournament for the World Chess claim 2012. Anand is one and only(a) of sextuplet players in history to break the 2800 mark on the FIDE rating list, and in April 2007 at the eon of 37, he became the world number-one for the premier time. He was at the top of the world rankings five turn up of six times, from April 2007 to July 2008, holding the number-one ranking for a total of 15 months.In October 2008, he dropped out of the world top three ranking for the first time since July 1996. Anand formally regained the world number one ranking on November 1, 2010, after having thwarted the reigning world 1 Magnus Carlsen in the Bilbao Masters. Anand became Indias first grandmaster in 1987. 1 He was also the first recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in 199192, Indias highest sporting honor. In 2007, he was set aparted Indias second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan, making him the first sportsperson to receive the award in Indian history.Today he remains one of elite chess players in the world. 2 Anand has been described by Lubomir Kavalek as the most v ersatile world champion ever, since Anand is the only player to have won the world chess championships in many formats including Knockout, Tournament, Match, Rapid and Blitz. 3 Contents hide 1 Personal look 2 Chess career o2. 1 Early career o2. 2 World Chess Champion ?2. 2. 1 FIDE World Chess Champion 2000 ?2. 2. 2 World Chess Champion 2007 ?2. 2. 3 World Chess Champion 2008 ?2. 2. 4 World Chess Champion 2010 ?2. 2. 5 World Chess Championship 2012 o2. 3 FIDE World Rapid Chess Champion 2003 2. 4 Other results o2. 5 Rating 3 Personality 4 Contr oversies 5 Notable tournament victories 6 Awards 7 Sample granular 8 See also 9 References 10 Further narration 11 External links edit Personal life Anand was born on 11 December 1969 in Mayiladuthurai, a small town in Tamil Nadu, India in a Tamil Iyer (South Indian Brahmin) family. Shortly thereafter, his family travel to Chennai, erstwhile Madras, where he grew up. 4 His father, Viswanathan Iyer, is a retired General Manager of Southern Ra ilways, and his receive Susheela, housewife and chess/film/ nightspot aficionado and an influential socialite.He has an elder brother, Shivakumar who is a manager at Crompton Greaves in India and an elder sister Anuradha who is a teacher at the University of Michigan. 56 Anand is 11 years four-year-older than his sister and 13 years younger than his brother. He was taught to play chess by his mother. He described his start in chess in a converse with Susan Polgar I started when I was six. My mother taught me how to play. In fact, my mother use to do a lot for my chess. We moved to the Philippines shortly afterward. I joined the club in India and we moved to the Philippines for a year.And there they had a TV course that was on in the afternoon, one to two or something like that, when I was in school. So she would write down all the games that they showed and the puzzles, and in the eventide we work out them together. Of course my mother and her family used to play some chess, a nd she used to play with her younger brother, so she had some background in chess, that she never went to a club or anything like that. So we solved all these puzzles and sent in our answers together. And they gave the prize of a book to the winner. And over the course of many months, I won so many prizes.At one point they just said take all the books you want, nevertheless dont put up in any more entries. 7 Anand did his schooling in Don Bosco, Egmore, Chennai and holds a degree in commerce from Loyola College, Chennai. His hobbies are reading, swimming, and listening to music. He is conjoin to A abidea Anand and lives in Collado Mediano in Spain. 8 In August 2010, Anand joined Board of Directors of Olympic Gold Quest, a foundation for promoting and supporting the Indias elite sportspersons and potential young talent. 91011 edit Chess career edit Early career Anands rise in the Indian chess world was meteoric.National level success came other(a) for him when he won the Nation al 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 multinational Master title at the age of fifteen, in 1984. At the age of sixteen he became the national chess 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 Indias first Grandmaster by lovely Shakti Finance International chess tournament held in Coimbatore, India.He was awarded Padma Shri at the age of 18. Anand at the Manila Olympiad 1992, age 22 Vishy, as he is sometimes called by his friends, burst upon the upper echelons of the chess scene in the early 1990s, winning much(prenominal) tournaments as Reggio Emilia 1991 (ahead of Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov). Playing at such a high level did not slow him down, and he proceed to play games at blitz speed. In the World Chess Championship 1993 cycle An and qualified for his first Candidates Tournament, winning his first affect but narrowly losing his quarter-final sum to Anatoly Karpov. 12 In 199495 Anand and Gata Kamsky dominated the qualifying cycles for the contender FIDE and PCA world championships. In the FIDE cycle (FIDE World Chess Championship 1996), Anand baffled his quarter-final match to Kamsky after leading early. 13Kamsky went on to lose the 1996 FIDE championship match against Karpov. In the 1995 PCA cycle, Anand won matches against Oleg Romanishin and Michael Adams without a loss, then avenged his FIDE loss by defeating Gata Kamsky in the Candidates final. 14 In 1995, he played the PCA World Chess Championship 1995 against Kasparov in New York Citys World Trade Center. After an opening run of eight draws (a record for the opening of a world championship match), Anand won game nine with a powerful exchange sacrifice, but then lost four of the next five. He lost the match 10? 7?. In the 1998 FIDE cycle, the reigni ng champion Karpov was granted direct seeding by FIDE into the final against the winner of the seven-round single elimination Candidates tournament.The psychological and physical receipts gained by Karpov from this decision caused significant controversy, leading to the withdrawal of future World Champion Vladimir Kramnik from the candidates tournament. Anand won the candidates tournament, defeating Michael Adams in the final, and immediately faced a well-rested Karpov for the championship. contempt this tremendous disadvantage for Anand, which he described as being brought in a coffin to play Karpov,15 Anand was able to draw the regular match 3-3, forcing a rapid playoff. However, the rapid playoff was won 2-0 by Karpov, allowing him to defend his FIDE