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In this Indian name, the name Viswanathan is a patronymic, not a family name, and the
person should be referred to by the given name, Anand.
Viswanathan Anand
Country India
2007–2013
Early life
Viswanathan Anand was born on 11 December 1969 at Chennai, Tamil Nadu in a Tamil
family.[8][9]where he grew up.[2][10] His father Krishnamurthy Viswanathan, a retired general
manager of Southern Railways, had studied in Jamalpur, Bihar, and his mother Susila was
a housewife.
Anand is the youngest of 3 children. He is 11 years younger than his sister and 13 years
younger than his brother. His elder brother, Shivakumar, is a manager at Crompton
Greaves in India and his elder sister, Anuradha, is a professor in the United States at
the University of Michigan.[11][12]
Anand learned chess from age six from his mother .[13]
Anand was educated at Don Bosco Matriculation Higher Secondary
School,[14] Egmore, Chennai and holds a degree of Bachelor of Commerce from Loyola
College, Chennai.[15]
Personal life
Anand married Aruna in 1996 and has a son, Akhil, born on 9 April 2011.
In August 2010, Anand joined the board of directors of Olympic Gold Quest, a foundation
for promoting and supporting India's elite sportspersons and potential young
talent.[16][17][18] On 24 December 2010 Anand was guest of honour on the grounds of Gujarat
University, where 20,486 players created a new world record of simultaneous chess play at
a single venue.[19]
His hobbies are reading, swimming, and listening to music.
Anand has been regarded as an unassuming person with a reputation for refraining from
political and psychological ploys and instead focusing on his game.[20] This has made him a
well-liked figure throughout the chess world for two decades, evidenced by the fact
that Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, and Magnus Carlsen, of whom the former two were
rivals for the World Championship throughout Anand's career, each aided him in preparing
for the World Chess Championship 2010.[21][22] Anand is sometimes known as the "Tiger of
Madras".[23]
Anand was the only sportsperson to be invited for the dinner hosted by the Indian
PM Manmohan Singh for US President Barack Obama on 7 November 2010.[24]
Anand was denied an honorary doctorate from University of Hyderabad because of
confusion over his citizenship status; however, later Kapil Sibal, India's Minister of Human
Resource Development apologised and said "There is no issue on the matter as Anand has
agreed to accept the degree at a convenient time depending on his
availability".[25] According to The Hindu, Anand finally declined to accept the doctorate.[26]
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 1990
runner-up Anatoly Karpov.[28]
In 1994–95 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 lost his quarter-final match to Kamsky after leading
early.[29] Kamsky 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.[30] In 1995, he played the PCA World Chess Championship 1995 against
Kasparov in New York City's 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 10½–7½.
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 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 tremendous disadvantage for Anand, which he
described as being "brought in a coffin" to play Karpov,[20] the regular match ended 3–3,
which led to a rapid playoff, which Karpov won 2–0. Karpov thus remained the FIDE
champion.
Other results
Anand won three consecutive Advanced Chess tournaments in Leon, Spain, after Garry
Kasparov introduced this form of chess in 1998, and is widely recognised as the world's
best Advanced Chess player, where humans may consult a computer to aid in their
calculation of variations.
His game collection, My Best Games of Chess, was published in the year 1998 and was
updated in 2001.
Anand's tournament successes include the Corus chess tournament in 2006 (tied with
Veselin Topalov), Dortmund in 2004, and Linares in 2007 and 2008. He has won the
annual event Monaco Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess Championships in years 1994,
1997, 2003, 2005 and 2006. He is the first player to have won five titles of the Corus chess
tournament, succeeded by Magnus Carlsen. He is also the only player to win the blind and
rapid sections of the Amber tournament in the same year (twice: in 1997 and 2005). He is
the first player to have achieved victories in each of the three big chess
supertournaments: Corus (1989, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2006), Linares (1998, 2007, 2008),
and Dortmund (1996, 2000, 2004).
In 2007 he won the Grenkeleasing Rapid championship, which he won for the tenth time
defeating Armenian GM Levon Aronian.[31] Incidentally, just a few days before Aronian had
defeated Anand in the Chess960final.[32]
In March 2007, Anand won the Linares chess tournament and it was widely believed that
he would be ranked world No. 1 in the FIDE Elo rating list for April 2007. However, Anand
was placed No. 2 in the initial list released because the Linares result was not included.
FIDE subsequently announced that the Linares results would be included after
all,[33] making Anand number one in the April 2007 list.[34]
Anand won the Mainz 2008 Supertournament Championship by defeating rising
star Magnus Carlsen, earning his eleventh title in that event.[35]
Anand in 2007
In September 2007, Anand entered the FIDE World Championship Tournament in Mexico
City as the world's top-ranked player. Playing in a double round-robin tournament, Anand
scored victories over Levon Aronian, Peter Leko, and Peter Svidler to take the lead after
five rounds. In the 13th round, Anand played a precise endgame to stave off a tough
challenge from Alexander Grischuk, and entered the final round needing only a draw
against Leko to clinch the championship.[37] Following Anand's draw with Leko, he was
named the undisputed World champion. He won the tournament with a final score of 9 out
of 14 points, a full point ahead of joint second-place finishers Vladimir Kramnik and Boris
Gelfand.
In 2000, when Anand won the FIDE World Championship, there was also the rival
"Classical" World Championship, held by Kramnik. By 2007, the world championship had
been reunified, so Anand's victory in Mexico City made him undisputed World Chess
Champion. He became the first undisputed champion to win the title in a tournament, rather
than in matchplay, since Mikhail Botvinnik in 1948.
In October 2007, Anand said he liked the double round robin championship format (as used
in the 2007 championship in Mexico City), and that the right of Kramnik to automatically
challenge for the title was "ridiculous".[38]
Anand convincingly defended the title against Kramnik in the World Chess Championship
2008 held 14–29 October in Bonn, Germany. The winner was to be the first to score 6½
points in the twelve-game match.[39] Anand won by scoring 6½ points in 11 games, having
won three of the first six games (two with the black pieces).[40] After the tenth game, Anand
led 6–4 and needed only a draw in either of the last two games to win the match. In the
eleventh game, Kramnik played the Najdorf Variation of the Sicilian Defense. Once the
players traded queens, Kramnik offered a draw after 24 moves since he had no winning
chances in the endgame.
Anand (2783)–Kramnik (2772), Wch Bonn GER (11);[41] 29 October 2008 (final
game)
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Qc7 8.Bxf6 gxf6
9.f5 Qc5 10.Qd3 Nc6 11.Nb3 Qe5 12.0-0-0 exf5 13.Qe3 Bg7 14.Rd5 Qe7 15.Qg3
Rg8 16.Qf4 fxe4 17.Nxe4 f5 18.Nxd6+ Kf8 19.Nxc8 Rxc8 20.Kb1 Qe1+ 21.Nc1 Ne7
22.Qd2 Qxd2 23.Rxd2 Bh6 24.Rf2 Be3 ½–½
Responding to Anand's win, Garry Kasparov said "A great result for Anand and for
chess. Vishy deserved the win in every way and I'm very happy for him. It will not be
easy for the younger generation to push him aside... Anand out-prepared Kramnik
completely. In this way it reminded me of my match with Kramnik in London 2000. Like
I was then, Kramnik may have been very well prepared for this match, but we never
saw it."[42] In 2010 Anand donated his gold medal to the charitable organisation "The
Foundation" to be auctioned off for the benefit of underprivileged children.[43]
Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Total
Viswanathan
2783 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 6½
Anand (India)
Vladimir
2772 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 4½
Kramnik (Russia)
Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Total
Viswanathan
2787 0 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 6½
Anand (India)
Veselin
2805 1 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 5½
Topalov (Bulgaria)
Viswan
athan 279
½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 6 ½ 1 ½ ½ 8½
Anand (Indi 1
a)
Boris
272
Gelfand (Isr ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 6 ½ 0 ½ ½ 7½
7
ael)