VISWANATHAN ANAND
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Viswanathan Anand was born on 11 December 1969 in an Iyer family at Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India[14][15] where he grew up.[16] His father Krishnamurthy Viswanathan, a retired general manager of Southern Railways, had studied in Jamalpur, Bihar, and his mother Sushila was a housewife, chess aficionado and an influential socialite.[17]
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.[18][19]
Anand started learning chess from age six from his mother Sushila, but learned the intricacies of the game in Manila where he lived with his parents from 1978 up to the '80s while his father was contracted as a consultant by the Philippine National Railways.[20]
Anand was educated at Don Bosco Matriculation Higher Secondary School,[21] Egmore, Chennai and holds a degree of Bachelor of Commerce from Loyola College, Chennai.[22]
Personal life[edit]
Anand married Aruna in 1996 and has a son, Akhil, born on 9 April 2011, and is named in the traditional patronymic way Anand Akhil.[23]
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.[24][25][26] On 24 December 2010, Anand was the 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.[27]
His hobbies are reading, swimming, and listening to music.[20]
Anand has been regarded as an unassuming person with a reputation for refraining from political and psychological ploys and instead focusing on his game.[28] 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 first two were rivals for the World Championship throughout Anand's career, each aided him in his preparations for the World Chess Championship 2010.[29][30] Anand is sometimes known as the "Tiger of Madras".[31]
Anand was the only sportsperson to be invited to the dinner hosted by the Indian PM Manmohan Singh for US President Barack Obama on 7 November 2010.[32]
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".[33] According to The Hindu, Anand finally declined to accept the doctorate.[34]
Endorsement[edit]
Anand is sponsored by NIIT[35] and Instaforex.[36]
Early chess career[edit]
Anand's rise in the Indian chess world was meteoric. National-level success came early for him when he won the national sub-junior championship with a score of 9/9 points in 1983, at the age of fourteen. In 1984 Anand won the Asian Junior Championship in Coimbatore earning a norm for the title International Master (IM) in the process. Soon afterwards, he participated in the 26th Chess Olympiad, held in Thessaloniki, where he made his debut in the Indian national team. There, Anand scored 7½ points from 11 games, gaining also his second IM norm.[37] He became the youngest Indian to achieve the title of International Master, at age 15, in 1985 by winning the Asian Junior Championship for the second year in a row, this time in Hong Kong.[38] At age 16, he became the national chess champion. He 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 age 18, he became India's first Grandmaster by winning the Shakti Finance International chess tournament held in Coimbatore, India. He was awarded Padma Shri at age 18.
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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.[39]
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.[40] 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.[41] 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 (which was a record for the opening of a world championship match until November 21, 2018), 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,[28] the regular match ended 3–3, which led to a rapid playoff, which Karpov won 2–0. Karpov thus remained the FIDE champion.
