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Viswanathan Anand

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Also known as Vishwanathan Anand

Indian chess grandmaster

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Viswanathan Anand is an Indian chess player and writer born in Chennai in 1969. He holds the titles of FIDE Master, International Master, and Grandmaster. Anand has participated in the World Chess Championship 2013, Classical World Chess Championship 1995, World Chess Championship 2007, and World Chess Championship 2008. He has received the Arjuna Award, Padma Bhushan, Chess Oscar, and Padma Vibhushan.

He was educated at Loyola College and the University of Madras. Anand resides in Chennai and practices Hinduism. His native name is விசுவநாதன் ஆனந்த். He is the author of works including Sultan Khan and Mind Master. Anand has an Elo rating of 2817 and a ranking of 12.

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Person · Open Library

Works
2

Top works

  • Sultan Khan
  • Mind Master

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
India
Active from
1961-11-08
film composerfilmi

Discography

DiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
4
Total plays
4

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,783x

  2. ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions

    · 2016 · cited 15,445x

  3. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis

    · 2022 · cited 13,882x

  4. The Sequence of the Human Genome

    · 2001 · cited 10,201x

  5. Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    · 2014 · cited 9,234x

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Quotes

  • “Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion.”
  • “To become a world chess champion.”
  • “When I first visited Moscow in the late 1980s, I was so intimidated. I thought I could be checkmated by every cabdriver.”
  • “But perhaps they were thrown off by my playing style, which was intuitive-and perhaps a little influenced by Vodka. I ran away with the match early. The result was overwhelmingly in my favour: four wins, five draws and only one loss –an annihilation. The Russians were stunned . I was pretty surprised myself.”
  • “...in 2000, when I defeated Alexei Shirov at the World Chess Championship in Teheran to become the first Indian ever to win the title.”
  • “Since the 1990s technology has taken some of the sheen off the Russian trainers and their methods.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster. Anand is a five-time World Chess Champion, a two-time World Rapid Chess Champion, and a World Blitz Chess Cup Champion. He became the first grandmaster from India in 1988, and he has the eighth-highest peak FIDE rating of all time. In 2022, he was the elected Deputy President of FIDE. He has had an important role in popularizing chess in India.

Anand defeated Alexei Shirov in a six-game match to win the 2000 FIDE World Chess Championship, a title he held until 2002. He became the undisputed world champion in 2007 and defended his title against Vladimir Kramnik in 2008, Veselin Topalov in 2010, and Boris Gelfand in 2012. In 2013, he lost the title to challenger Magnus Carlsen, and he lost a rematch to Carlsen in 2014 after winning the 2014 Candidates Tournament.

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