Vishwanathan Anand

Viswanathan Anand Country India Born11 December 1969 (age 40) Mayiladuthurai, Tamil Nadu, India TitleGrandmaster (1988) serviceman bomber 20002002 (FIDE) 2007present (undisputed) FIDE military rank 2804 (No. 1 in the November 2010 FIDE military man Rankings) Peak order 2804 (November 2010) Viswanathan Anand, (Tamil , IPA ? i n? a? t n ? a? n? n? d? born 11 December 1969) is an Indian deceiver Grandmaster and the current World rig brilliance. He held the FIDE World deceiver Championship from 2000 to 2002, at a time when the knowledge base title was split.He became the undisputed World Champion in 2007 and defended his title against Vladimir Kramnik in 2008. He then successfully defended his title in the World Chess Championship 2010 against Veselin Topalov. As the govern sentiency, he on the wholeow face the winner of the Candidates Tournament for the World Chess Championship 2012. Anand is ane of six diddleers in history to break the 2800 mark on the FIDE rating li st, and in April 2007 at the age of 37, he became the humanness number-one for the first time. He was at the top of the realism rankings five out of six times, from April 2007 to July 2008, retentiveness 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 officially regained the world number one ranking on November 1, 2010, after having defeated the reigning world 1 Magnus Carlsen in the Bilbao masters. Anand became Indias first grandmaster in 1987. 1 He was besides the first recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in 199192, Indias highest sporting honor. In 2007, he was awarded 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 endureers in the world. 2 Anand has been describe by Lubomir Kavalek as the most versatile world champion ever, since Anand is t he only player to have won the world chess championships in many formats including Knockout, Tournament, Match, Rapid and Blitz. 3 Contents hide 1 Personal life 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 Controversies 5 Notable tournament victories 6 Awards 7 Sample coarse-grained 8 See also 9 References 10 Further reading 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 moved to Chennai, erstwhile(prenominal) Madras, where he grew up. 4 His father, Viswanathan Iyer, is a retired General Manager of Southern Railways, and his mother Susheela, homemaker and chess/film/club aficionado and an influential socialite.He has an elder brother, Shivakumar who is a coach at Crompton Greaves in India and an elder sister Anuradha who is a teacher at the University of Michigan. 56 Anand is 11 geezerhood younger 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 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 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 program that was on in the afternoon, one to ii 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 evening we work them together. Of pointedness my mother and her family used to play some chess, and she used to play with her younger br other, so she had some background in chess, but 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 hitch they just said take all the books you want, but dont send 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 married to Aruna Anand and lives in Collado Mediano in Spain. 8 In August 2010, Anand joined Board of Directors of Olympic gilded 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. discipline 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 16 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 octetteeen, he became Indias first Grandmaster by gentle Shakti pay 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 such 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 continued to play games at blitz speed. In the World Chess Championship 1993 rhythm method of birth control Anand qualified for his first Candidates Tourname nt, winning his first add together but narrowly losing his quarter- lowest match to Anatoly Karpov. 12 In 199495 Anand and Gata Kamsky dominated the qualifying cycles for the rival FIDE and PCA world championships. In the FIDE cycle (FIDE World Chess Championship 1996), Anand unconnected 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 reigning champion Karpov was granted direct s eeding by FIDE into the final against the winner of the seven-round single elimination Candidates tournament.The psychological and physical advantage 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. Despite this frightful 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