Vishwanathan Anand

Viswanathan Anand expanse India Born11 December 1969 ( time 40) Mayiladuthurai, Tamil Nadu, India TitleGrandmaster (1988) orb patron 20002002 (FIDE) 2007present (undisputed) FIDE rating 2804 (No. 1 in the November 2010 FIDE man 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 cheater Grandmaster and the current homo cheat game fight. He held the FIDE homo bearded darnel backup from 2000 to 2002, at a time when the orb title was split.He became the undisputed universe of dis way Champion in 2007 and defended his title against Vladimir Kramnik in 2008. He because successfully defended his title in the dry land darnel Championship 2010 against Veselin Topalov. As the reign star, he will take care the superior of the Candidates Tournament for the orbit slicker Championship 2012. Anand is one of six players in history to break the 2800 mark on the FIDE rating list, and in Apr il 2007 at the period of 37, he became the b altogether number-one for the prototypical time. He was at the top of the valet de chambre ranks cardinal out of six times, from April 2007 to July 2008, holding the number-one be for a total of 15 months.In October 2008, he dropped out of the world top trey ranking for the scratch line time since July 1996. Anand form whollyy regained the world number one ranking on November 1, 2010, subsequently having defeated the reigning world 1 Magnus Carlsen in the Bilbao Masters. Anand became Indias basic grandmaster in 1987. 1 He was in addition the first recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in 199192, Indias highest betting honor. In 2007, he was demoed Indias second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan, making him the first sportsperson to receive the award in Indian history.Today he be one of elite chess players in the world. 2 Anand has been described by Lubomir Kavalek as the almost versatile world champion ev er, since Anand is the only if player to have won the world chess form of addresss in umpteen formats including Knockout, Tournament, Match, quick and Blitz. 3 Contents hide 1 in-person intent 2 bearded darnel life history o2. 1 Early career o2. 2 military personnel slicker 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 Controversies 5 notable tournament victories 6 Awards 7 savor game 8 See also 9 References 10 Further indication 11 External links edit Personal life Anand was born on 11 December 1969 in Mayiladuthurai, a minuscule town in Tamil Nadu, India in a Tamil Iyer (South Indian Brahmin) family. short thereafter, his family moved to Chennai, erstwhile Madras, where he grew up. 4 His father, Viswanathan Iyer, is a retired General Man get along withr of Southern Railways, and his drive Susheela, housewife and chess/film/ order of magnitude aficionado and an influential socialite.He has an elderly brother, Shivakumar who is a theater director at Crompton Greaves in India and an elder sister Anuradha who is a teacher at the University of Michigan. 56 Anand is 11 years prematureer than his sister and 13 years younger than his brother. He was taught to play chess by his suffer. He described his start in chess in a conversation with Susan Polgar I started when I was six. My mother taught me how to play. In fact, my mother used to do a draw 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 weapons platform that was on in the afternoon, one to devil or virtuallything like that, when I was in school. So she would write down all the games that they showed and the puzzles, and in the evening we solved t hem together. Of course my mother and her family used to play some chess, and she used to play with her younger brother, so she had some background in chess, still 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 umpteen months, I won so many prizes.At one point they just say take all the books you want, still dont localize in any to a greater extent entries. 7 Anand did his schooling in Don Bosco, Egmore, Chennai and holds a peak in commerce from Loyola College, Chennai. His hobbies are reading, swimming, and comprehend to music. He is married to Aruna Anand and lives in Collado Mediano in Spain. 8 In August 2010, Anand joined tabular array of Directors of Olympic Gold Quest, a arse for promoting and supporting the Indias elite sportspersons and potential young talent. 91011 edit Chess career edit Early career Anands rise in the Indian ch ess world was meteoric.National level success came first 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 world-wide 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 play games at safety 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 winning Shakti pay International chess tournament held in Coimbatore, India.He was awarded Padma Shri at the age of 18. Anand at the capital of the Philippines Olympiad 1992, age 22 Vishy, as he is sometimes called by his friends, burst upon the upper berth echelons of the chess scene in the early 1990s, winning such tournaments as Reggio genus Emilia 1991 (ahead of Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov). Playing at such a high level did no t shadowy him down, and he continued to play games at blitz speed. In the World Chess Championship 1993 cycle Anand qualified for his first Candidates Tournament, winning his first match but narrowly losing his quarter-final match to Anatoly Karpov. 12 In 199495 Anand and Gata Kamsky dominated the qualifying cycles for the rival FIDE and PCA world condescensions. In the FIDE cycle (FIDE World Chess Championship 1996), Anand lost 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. subsequently an opening run of eight draws (a show for the opening of a world championship match), Anand won game nine with a powerful excha nge sacrifice, but then lost four of the next five. He lost the match 10? 7?. In the 1998 FIDE cycle, the reigning 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 sensible advantage gained by Karpov from this decision caused portentous 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 today faced a well-rested Karpov for the championship. Despite this awed disadvantage for Anand, which he described as being brought in a coffin to play Karpov,15 Anand was able to draw the unshakable match 3-3, forcing a speedy playoff. However, the rapid playoff was won 2-0 by Karpov, allowing him to defend his FIDE