Viswanathan Anand, born in Madras, is the best player India ever produced and was ranked in the world`s top ten since the early 1990s. He has unusually quick sight of the board, is noted for playing fast, and is one of the best-liked grandmasters ...
Robert James 'Bobby' Fischer was born in Chicago, raised in Brooklyn, New York. He won the USA Championship at the unheard-of age of 14 in 1958. He was a dominant player throughout the 1960s but developed a reputation for being difficult by insist...
Anatoly Karpov was born in Zlatoust in the former Soviet Union. He won the FIDE title twice by default: in 1975 when Fischer refused to play and in 1993 when Kasparov formed the Professional Chess Association. Karpov was the darling of the Kremlin...
