V anand biography

Anand was the runner up to Kasparov in World Championship final in In JulyAnand outplayed the most popular chess software programme, Fritz. Anand has also won the coveted Chess Oscars inand Turning Point Although Viswanathan Anand had shown a lot of promise from an early age but the real turning point in his carrier came when he won the National Junior championship at the age of fourteen in the year After this title there was no looking back for the chess maestro as he went on to conquer one player after another.

Early Promise Anand had a sharp memory from the very beginning and was initiated into chess at an early age of 5 by his mother, Susheela. Anand had the advantage of being in Chennai as it had a flourishing chess culture due to the presence of chess champions like Manuel Aaron and Ravi Kumar. He is the only chess player who had won the world championship playing in Match, Tournament and Knockout formats.

He was born on 11 December, in Tamil Nadu, India. He has also earned a nickname "Lightning Kid". He inspired generations to pursue chess game as the career. No doubt before Viswanathan Anand, nobody till now received commercial attention as an Indian Chess player. Father of Viswanathan Anand was a general manager in the Southern Railways and his mother is a housewife.

As we know that he was born in Tamil Nadu into a Brahmin family and is the youngest of three siblings. For the first time, he was introduced to chess by his mother who was a big chess aficionado. He started playing chess at the age of 6. Anand defended his title well at first, drawing the first four games of the match. However, he lost games five and six, and there was no miraculous comeback.

After two draws Carlsen won game nine and drew game 10, and Anand had lost the title. The next month Anand turned 44 years old, but his chess career was far from over. Just four months after the championship match in November came the next Candidates match. Every player won exactly two or three games, but Anand distanced himself from the field by not losing a single game.

Nonetheless, while the championship match was closer than the match, Carlsen proved too strong a champion. The Norwegian won game two before Anand took game three below to tie the match. It would prove his only win to v anand biography against Carlsen in a world championship match. Carlsen took the sixth game and then the eleventh to clinch the championship.

Anand was once again a candidate in by virtue of his performance, but this time he finished only in a tie for second, and he did not qualify for the Candidates in Anand played perhaps the best game of his career in this decade as well, winning as Black in 23 moves against Levon Aronian at Wijk aan Zee in How often does Black get to play pieces to c5 and e5 when White has a pawn on d4?

Well, it happened in this game, which was clinched by a spectacular final move. He appears set to be v anand biography as a serious player in his 50s when that has become rare. And even at that age he remains a regular top presence on the rating list, achieving the ninth spot in October He was a candidate for the world championship as well as ina year spread that few in chess history can match.

That continued well into his career as he has twice won the World Rapid Championship, in and Anyone can play fast, but it takes a special talent to play quickly and accurately at the very highest levels for decades. Home Play. GM Viswanathan Anand. Full name. Place of birth. Early Career Through s s s s Legacy Early Career Through s Anand began playing chess at six years old after learning the game from his mother.

Anand in By the way, in his native language, Viswanathan is a patronymic while Anand is the first name. A classical game took him no longer than 20 minutes to finish. Notably, that never had a negative impact on his performance. Returning to the subject of chess, Vishy learned to play at the age of 7. However, he began to show interest in it only 2 years later.

His first great victory occurred at the Indian Junior Championship, where he achieved the highest possible score of 9 out of 9. Next year, Anand won the Asian competition for players under 20 years old. He represented his country at the Olympiad in Thessaloniki. At the same time, he earned the title of an International Master. From toViswanathan won the Indian National Championship three times in a row.

Inhe became the Junior Chess World Champion. The fact that he did not receive a classical chess education, unlike his competitors Gelfand and Ivanchuk, makes his success especially impressive. Back then, he was one of the top players in the world. Under their patronage, he was quick to learn and made up for the lost time. Qualifying for the Candidates Tournament via the Interzonal in Manila was his first claim to fame.

First, he defeated Dreev. Then, he surprised everyone by holding his own against Anatoly Karpov. The final score was 4.

V anand biography

Vishy then proceeded to take 1st-2nd place in the super-tournanment in Moscow. He also performed admirably in the final of the Rapid Championship in Paris against Kasparov. But ultimately he still conceded to the powerful adversary.