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| | 'I also strive to have chess-free days' |
 | | Viswanathan Anand : Yes Blind games are as well played as the other formats since the participants are used to the format by playing 11 games a year in Monte Carlo. | | | Viswanathan Anand : Blindfold games can be played in various ways. | | | After ruling the chess world for nearly 20 years now, Viswanathan Anand is rightly regarded as one of the greats of the 64-squares game. |
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http://inhome.rediff.com/sports/2005/jun/24chat.htm
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| | Viswanathan Anand was held to a draw by Russian-turned-Dutchman Sergei Tiviakov in the 11th round of the Corus International chess tournament. | | | Viswanathan Anand has won the Corus chess tournament defeating beating Boris Gelfand in the last round to lift the trophy ahead of Vesselin Topalov on tie-breaker points. | | | Viswanathan Anand came back into reckoning for the top honours with a fine victory over Grandmaster Etienne Bacrot of France in the eighth round of Corus International chess tournament. |
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http://origin.ndtv.com/sports/?sportname=chess
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| | English Meko: Interview with Viswanathan Anand 2004 |
| | Viswanathan Anand regards himself as the strongest chess player in the world; Alexei Shirov a dangerous opponent at the Chess Classic Mainz | | | Anand: It is somewhat confusing when you play against somebody on day one, who is your team mate the next day. | | | Anand: Okay, then, just to be on the safe side, I will make sure that I win the Chess Classic for the seventh time. |
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http://www.rochadekuppenheim.de/meko/meko4/vishy.htm
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| | Anand said as in tennis, women players were bringing in a wider audience in chess too. | | | KOCHI: Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand sought to allay concerns that popularisation of rapid chess would affect the classical version of the game saying there was no "conflict" between the two. |
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/xml/uncomp/articleshow?msid=12546
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| | Mainz Chess Classic 2001: Viswanathan Anand |
| | Anand: I play my game and enjoy it. | | | Prior to the prestigious ten games rapid chess match, sponsored by LRP, Anand gave a very monosyllabic interview to Hartmut Metz. | | | After going through a bad patch, this impressive tournament win had the effect of a liberating strike for the 31 year old. |
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http://www.frankfurtwest.de/ChessClassic2001e/champs/anand.htm
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| | It's tough even without Kasparov |
| | Anand agrees: "I guess it's a kind of compliment in one sense, but he's never going to do as well, as he did in chess. | | | To Anand, it is inexplicable that instead of speeding up the game, the governing body is debating stretching the classical form. | | | Elsewhere, Anand continues, the internet has worked miracles for those trying to popularise the game; but in India better use must be made of the television medium. |
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http://www.sportstaronnet.com/tss2830/stories/20050723002905000.htm
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| | About Viswanathan Anand |
| | Anand, known as the “One man Indian Chess revolution”, keenly promotes the game, through innovative methods in the country, where the game first originated. | | | Anand won the historic Corus Chess Tournament for the fourth time. | | | In 2004 Anand took his performance in rapid chess to a new height by winning two of the most prestigious rapid. |
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http://www.niit.com/niit/vishy/about.htm
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| | `I'd like to complete a hat-trick' |
| | On January 25, Anand won the Corus chess tournament at Wijk aan Zee in the Netherlands for the fourth time in nine appearances and second time in a row. | | | Question: A player who wins most of the tournaments he competes in is ranked No. 1. | | | At 34, he is now in the older group of players but is able to use his experience to wriggle out of difficult situations with ease. |
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http://www.sportstaronnet.com/tss2708/stories/20040221005007600.htm
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| | List of Vishy Anand's Completed Events |
| | Viswanathan Anand added a fourth world- level title to his collection this year as he rebounded strongly from a first-game loss to beat veteran Anatoly Karpov of Russia 4-2, in the final of the sixth edition of the Corsica Open chess tournament played in Bastia, France. | | | Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand of India held his final round game with English Grandmaster Nigel D Short and clinched the title with 4.5 points. | | | Replay the game that made Anand the champion |
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http://www.chathurangam.com/anandtrack/track.asp
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| | The Tribune - Magazine section - Saturday Extra |
| | Anand played brilliantly in this team Championship to win the top board prize and was rewarded with a seeding for the National ‘B’ Championship that followed the next day at Ahmedabad. | | | Some blind chess players get to play chess with Anand during his visits to his home at Besant Nagar in Chennai. | | | This enabled Anand to concentrate on players like Karpov and Kasparov and his chess bloomed. |
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| | Anand: "The organiser of the proposed event said he was going to find the sponsorship for a top-level tournament in India. | | | Anand, known as the "One man Indian Chess revolution," keenly promotes the game, through innovative methods in the country, where the game first originated. | | | The catalyst has been Anand, the giver of dreams, his reputation a sort of elixir of greatness that young players drink from. |
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http://ganeshyamalabittu.tripod.com/heroes/id31.html
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| | INDOlink - India Sports News - Viswanathan Anand Wins Chess Oscar For Third Time |
| | New Delhi, May 6 (NNN):India's Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand, the world number two, for the third time has won the Chess Oscar, the game's most prestigious annual award. | | | To be acclaimed by them is a true honour," said Anand from his home in Spain, as he prepared to leave to play professional chess league matches in Germany and France later this month. | | | In 2003, Anand played two major classical events, winning the Corus Grandmasters event in Wijk Aan Zee and finishing second in Sparkassen at Dortmund. |
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| | Viswanathan Anand close to his fourth Amber title : HindustanTimes.com |
| | The Dutchman had drawn with the Indian when he was close to defeat in the last Corus chess tournament and he generally played solid games in both forms of chess. | | | In the blindfold, Anand continued to enjoy 1.5 points lead over Morozevich and Francisco Pons Vallejo of Spain while in the rapid the champion from Madras was able to stretch his lead to a full point following favourable results in other games. | | | For the records, Anand now has 13.5 points under his belt and the closest rival is last year's joint winner Alexander Morozevich of Russia who is three points behind. |
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http://www.hindustantimes.com/2005/Apr/16/181_1299375,00070007.htm
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| | GM Comments on Prague |
| | Concerning first the unification cycle the big drawback is that great players like Anand, Ivanchuk, Grischuk, Svidler and others don't have a chance to take part in it. | | | Anand was quoted by Leontxo Garcia in El Pais on Wednesday saying that "I do not want to play in the Candidates because I am against Kasparov having the privilege of facing Ponomariov directly". | | | Kasparov is back in FIDE and all chess players including former champions may prove their superiority over him already in near future in Moscow Grand Prix tournament in the beginning of June. |
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| | Chess FM - live via internet! |
| | Viswanathan Anand kept his title hopes alive by squeezing a victory in the endgame against a tired and error-prone Michael Adams in the ninth and penultimate round of the M-Tel Masters chess tournament here. | | | India's Viswanathan Anand and Ukrainian Ruslan Ponomariov drew after 54 moves here, even as the other two games in the eighth round of the M-Tel Masters chess tournament also ended in similar fashion. | | | Viswanathan Anand tried hard till the very last but had to settle for a draw against Ponomariov of Ukraine in the 8th round of MTel Masters chess tournament in Sofia. |
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| | AP Worldstream: Defending champion Viswanathan Anand registers first win in World Chess Cup@ HighBeam Research |
| | Anand, 32, moved into a third-place tie with Kasimdzhanov in Group C with 1.5 points, aiming to finish in the top two qualifying positions to enter the next stage of the tournament. | | | Dateline: RAMOJI FILM CITY, India Defending champion Viswanathan Anand of India scored his first win in three games in the World Chess Cup 2002 preliminaries on Saturday, defeating Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan. | | | Anand, playing white, used the Sveshnikov variation to recover from a surprise second-round loss Friday to compatriot Krishnan Sasikiran and a draw against Xu Jun of China a day... |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:68684205&refid=holomed_1
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| | British Chess Magazine: The Chess Shop and the Bridge Shop |
| | Decisive games: Topalov 1-0 Bacrot, Ivanchuk 0-1 Anand, Kariakin 1-0 Kamsky, Gelfand 1-0 Adams. | | | Anand drew with Adams, while Kariakin beat the last unbeaten player, Mamedyarov, to move into joint 2nd with Anand. | | | With Anand losing for the second time, it seems that only Svidler now has the remotest chance of catching the Bulgarian. |
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| | The Telegraph - Calcutta |
| | It was yet another Rossolimo attack game where the Ukrainian, white, played wildly in the vain hope of catching Anand off guard in the ensuing tactical complexities. | | | Ponomariov quickly capitalised on the inaccuracy and steered the game to a draw five moves later. | | | Radjabov and Ponomariov share the fifth spot on 2.5 points apiece and local lad Francisco Vallejo Pons brings up the tail on 2 points with an extra game in hand. |
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http://www.telegraphindia.com/1030304/asp/sports/story_1732778.asp
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| | The Hindu : Sport : Kasimdzhanov stuns Viswanathan Anand |
| | Anand is highest ranked active player in the world | | | Given the fact that the World champion is the lowest rated player in the fray, his chances of threatening the bigger players was discounted. | | | If the more illustrious players in the fray want to steal his thunder, he is not about to give it up easily. |
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| | The aim for a player in a knock out tournament is to survive and that is what Viswanathan Anand did by remaining undefeated in the 15 games. | | | Viswanathan Anand is close to being called the king of knock out events. | | | How would you attract a player like Anand into the Olympiad team of 2002? |
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| | Vishwanathan Anand Page |
| | Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand is the No.1 ranked active chess player in the World! | | | Anand to play in the Torneo de Estrellas in Benidorm | | | Anand to play Advanced Chess Tournament in Leon |
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| | Anand moves into the lead |
| | Defending champion Viswanathan Anand won his blindfold game against Boris Gelfand and drew the rapid match with the Israeli Grandmaster to join Alexander Morozevich at the top with five points after four rounds in the 15th Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament. | | | In the blindfold, Anand and Gelfand featured in what turned out to be the first Petroff in the 216,000 euro tournament. | | | In the rapid game, the Israeli seemed determined to turn tables on the Indian and had a clear advantage after Anand committed a rare inaccuracy. |
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http://ia.rediff.com/sports/2006/mar/22chess.htm
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| | Chessmetrics Ratings: Anand, Viswanathan |
| | These ratings, calculated for Anand, Viswanathan, incorporate all games (against rated opponents) played in the year before the "Date of rating", along with the ratings that were already calculated one year previously. | | | If a player has an insufficient number of games in recent years, there may be gaps in the list, even though you may see ratings listed on previous and/or subsequent dates. | | | Click on the link to see the sorted list of all players' ratings on their birthdays when turning that same age. |
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| | The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Sport |
| | Anand and Shirov are playing the final game of the FIDE World Chess Championship final in Iran. | | | It was Shirov’s turn to play the French defence, what Anand had done in the first game of this match. | | | Anand saw it and did not take the capture. |
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| | Topalov lets Anand off the hook early |
| | If what was on view in the last few games played between the two, their next game in Round 9 with Anand having white would probably have a bearing on who will triumph in San Luis. | | | San Luis (Argentina): Viswanathan Anand vs Veselin Topalov: this was the game that the entire chess world was waiting for in this year’s World Championship at San Luis. | | | The draw after 97 moves and seven hours now puts Anand in a better frame of mind as he has managed to score 1.5 points from two black games. |
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| | Deccan Herald News page |
| | Anand and Kramnik were on four points with young Azerbaijani Radjabov in sole third position on three points. | | | Continuing his demolition act, Viswanathan Anand recorded his third straight victory to jump to joint second position in the Dortmund Sparkassen chess tournament here. | | | The win puts Anand back in contention for the coveted title with games in hand against world No 2 Vladimir Kramnik, Teimour Radjabov and Arkadij Naiditsch in the last three rounds. |
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| | Rebel vs Anand and the Press |
| | REBEL played some remarkable tactical chess and its speed was impeccable as it beat Anand in the first, second and third of the blitz games and the fifth (semi-rapid) game on time. | | | Perhaps even more surprising was a fact that on day two Rebel was able to draw tournament game. | | | The machine made a brilliant 18th move to snatch advantage from Anand. |
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| | Daily Excelsior.........sports |
| | The king of speed chess, Viswanathan Anand scored a flawless five out of five on the first day of the two-day rapid event at the Villarobledo International Open Tournament last night. | | | The king of speed chess, Viswanathan Anand scored a flawless five out of five on the first day....... | | | In the remaining frames he played his natural game and won easily making it a 2-1 win. |
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| | Cybernoon.com |
| | Buoyant after an impressive performance in 2004, world number two, Viswanathan Anand said he would keep the momentum going and strive to win the FIDE World Championship. | | | In the 2004 season, Anand made a clean sweep of titles at the Melody Amber Rapid and Blindflod tournament, winning all the three sections. | | | All the eight top seeds have confirmed participating in the event," he said on the sidelines of a function at which he launched the NIIT MindChampion Nation Schools tournament for over a lakh school children here. |
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http://www.cybernoon.com/DisplayArticle.asp?section=fromthepress&subsection=sports&xfile=June2005_sports_standard3677
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| | I've rediscovered the genuine joy of chess: Viswanathan Anand - The Times of India |
| | And this decision, to enjoy his game, has helped Anand rediscover the genuine joy of playing chess, which he started at age six when his mother Susila initiated him to the game. | | | The 34-year-old grandmaster has already won five top titles this year besides the prestigious Chess Oscar for 2003, having earlier won it in 1997 and 1998 - the only second non-Russian ever after American Bobby Fischer to win that coveted prize three times. | | | The best thing is that I am genuinely enjoying the chess," disclosed the former FIDE World Championship and World Cup winner. |
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-879764,prtpage-1.cms
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| | News Updates - 29 December 2000 |
| | Anand, who replaces Alexander Khalifman as the federation champion, declined to say whether he would play against Vladimir Kramnik, the Brain Games Network world champion. | | | Shirov, on the other hand, beat Kramnik in 1998 in Spain for the right to face Kasparov in the PCA world championship, but never got close to play the match and again money was the problem. | | | Both times, he was checkmated, first by Garry Kasparov in the Professional Chess Association final in 1995, and then by Anatoly Karpov at the FIDE final in 1998 - though Karpov had the unfair advantage of being seeded straight into the final while Anand had to first win the gruelling Groningen knock-out championship. |
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| | Anand was once again seen to collapse against Anatoly Karpov of Russia in the final round of the 1998 World Chess Championship. | | | From the very beginning Anand is playing with a lot of confidence and in a very calculated manner. | | | In the last world championship, Anand withdrew his name and opted to accept the challenge of Garri Kasparov to play a separate match at the cost of the world championship title. |
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| | Welcome to Viswanathan Anand Fan Club |
| | This site predicts that Vishy Anand will become the #1 player in the world and will hold the unified world champion title in the next three years. |
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| | Disastrous start for Viswanathan Anand |
| | Monte Carlo, March 17: India's Viswanathan Anand had a disastrous start, losing the rapid play game to Ljubomir Ljubojevic of Yugoslavia and drawing the blindfold game with him to trail in the overall standings at the 8th Amber blindfold and rapid chess tournament at Casino Square here on Tuesday. | | | Although the players always see an empty board, the arbiters and audience can follow the game on video screens not visible to the payers. | | | He deployed a Slav Defence and the game ended in a draw in 44 moves. |
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| | Viswanathan Anand News - The New York Times |
| | More often than not, spectators who show up for the opening rounds of an elite competition have come to see performances by players who are feeling each other out. | | | A world chess championship tournament in September will have most of the world' s elite players, including, for the first time, a woman. | | | When a player changes horses in midstream, it has to be a serious matter - especially if the midstream is the sudden-death last round in a major tournament like the Dortmund Sparkassen in Germany, held July 22 to Aug. 1. |
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http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/a/viswanathan_anand
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| | Sportal ---- Sports Portal -- GOVERNMENT OF INDIA -- |
| | A voracious reader, Anand has awesome grasp over the game's theory. | | | The 12-year old Anand - now a seventh class student of Don Bosco School - claimed a double in the local Kastauri Cup Tournament. | | | In 1983, he won two All-India open tournaments in Madras and Sivakasi. |
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http://sportal.nic.in/legenddetails.asp?sno=715&moduleid=&maincatid=39&subid=0&comid=1
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| | Corus Chess: Viswanathan Anand inches closer to leaders - Sify.com |
| | Anand, who had a forgettable start here, has moved to 3.5 points from six games and is now just a half point behind four leaders Britain's Michael Adams, Hungarian Peter Leko, Bulgarian Veselin Topalov and Cuban Lazaro Bruzon, who is turning out to be the biggest surprise of the event. | | | It turned out be another exciting game for Anand as white after Ponomariov opted for the Sicilian Nazdorf and tackled the English attack in a rather off beat fashion right from the opening. | | | The next spot is jointly held by Ponomariov, Judit Polgar of Hungary and local challenge Loek Van Wely who all have 3 points each in their kitty with seven rounds still to go in this category-19 event being played under Classical time control. |
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http://sify.com/sports/others/fullstory.php?id=13654295
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| | ANAND WINS WYDRA TOURNAMENT AGAIN |
| | Viswanathan Anand receives the winner cheque of $5,000 from Mr Yerom Zebba of Zim on February 5, 2000. | | | World No.2 ranked Vishy Anand recovered on the third day and won the 5th Wydra International Chess Tournament that concluded at the Haifa International Convention Centre on February 5, 2000. | | | "I was feeling that I was playing very well from the second day onwards," said Anand who used white pieces fruitfully. |
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| | Navhind Times on the Web: Sports |
| | While Anand still has to play his remaining three games in the match against Carlsen, in all likelihood he is going to be the other finalist of this rapid event to cross sword with Kasimdzhanov in the final slated for tomorrow. | | | PTI Leon (Spain) June 11: Viswanathan Anand scored a fluent victory over Magnus Carlsen of Norway taking an early lead in the 2nd semi-final of the 18th Magistral Ciudad de Leon chess tournament here. | | | It turned out to be another mismatch with a twist in the tale as the world rapid champion, Anand, gave no chance to his 14-year-old opponent forcing a victory in just 30 moves. |
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| | Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Viswanathan Anand. | | | Anand Puzzles, Part X. White to move and win. | | | Anand, Part V. White to move and win except where noted. |
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| | Vishwanathan Anand fan club page |
| | Affable gentleman that he is, Anand has pretty much steered clear of the debate over whose "World Championship" tournament is more valid, and simply piles up the wins. | | | The Linares tournament he won was particularly impressive, a Category 21 event pitting the seven best players in the world against each other in a double-round-robin format (see the cross-table below). | | | Put that together with Anand's other major tournament victories in 1998, and it sure looks like Anand is the best in the world! |
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| | Anand settles for a draw against Topalov - Sify.com |
| | Anand, playing on the Sicilian defence lines kept the pressure on the Bulgarian. | | | Sofia: Indian wizard Viswanathan Anand drew his first game against host country's Veselin Topalov in the Mtel Masters Chess Tournament. | | | I felt my counter-play may not get me in trouble since it was clearly a drawn game, so I decided to go for a safe harbour,'' Anand told UNI after his draw. |
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| | PRdomain.com NIIT NIIT felicitates Mind Champion Viswanathan Anand for win at Mainz |
| | Like NIIT, which has presence in 38 countries, Anand is a global player, having won a number of World Championships. | | | Anand secured a game-eight win to take the match 4.5-3.5. | | | Congratulating the NIIT Mind Champion, Mr Balasubramanian said, "Vishy is the greatest sportsperson India has ever produced, with an enviable track record in the game of chess. |
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| | Super Stars VISWANATHAN ANAND - THE WORLD’S MOST LOVED GRANDMASTER |
| | After 1989, 1998 and 2002 it was Anand's 4th tournament victory in Wijk Aan Zee, joining in the process an exclusive club of players that includes former World Chess Champion Max Euwe, Lajos Portisch, Viktor Kortchnoi and himself, who have won this prestigious event 4 times. | | | With his result, Anand will pass Vladimir Kramnik on the rating list and will become the 2nd highest rated chess player in the world, behind Garry Kasparov in the FIDE world rankings. | | | Anand wins the coveted Chess Oscar for the second straight year! |
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| | Viswanathan Anand retains Corus Chess title : Sports News : IndiaExpress.Com |
| | World Rapid champion Viswanathan Anand won his second successive title and fourth overall in the Corus Chess tournament with a quick draw against local hope Grandmaster Ivan Sokolov in the 13th and final round game at Wijk Aan Zee in the Netherlands. | | | Not wanting to take any risk after a previous round debacle against Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, Anand settled for the draw in just 14 moves with white pieces, well aware that his main contenders had a daunting task at hand as they had to win with black pieces to catch up with him. | | | The Indian became the fourth player in the 66 years of Wijk Aan Zee chess history to annex the title four times. |
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http://www.indiaexpress.com/news/sports/20040126-0.html
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| | Corus chess tournament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Viswanathan Anand is the only player to have won five titles of the Corus chess tournament (he won one of these titles when it was called Hoogovens tournament) in its long history. | | | In 2001, nine of the top ten players in the world participated. | | | Winners of the Grandmaster A group since 1996 have been: |
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| | The chess games of Viswanathan Anand |
| | Today Anand is the 3rd highest rated player in the world, behind only | | | My Best Games of chess by Vishy Anand | | | I guess people here are taking a break or something from the mainstream chess...which is good. |
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| | Viswanathan Anand vs Rustam Kasimdzhanov (2005) |
| | Winning the endgame is going to be a bit of a chore. | | | The concensus by most GM's seem to indicate this was the critical blunder of the game. | | | I don't honestly think Anand's move is that much better than 13.Nc5. |
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