very well. we should proud about him. Jai ho Anand..
Biography of Viswanathan Anand
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Devil went up to Norway / he was looking for a soul to steal / he was in a bind he was way behind he was willing to make a deal / when he came across this young man moving his king and pawns so hot / devil jumped up on Norway Spruce stump/ and said boy let me tell you what
I guess you didn't know it but I'm a chesser too / and if you care to take a dare I'll just make a bet with you / now you play a pretty mean endgame boy but give the devil his due / I bet this board and pieces of gold against yer soul cos I think I'm better than you
boy said "my name is Magnus and it might be a sin" but I'll take that bet and you're gonna regret because next to Fischer Capa & Kaspy . . . I'm the best that's ever been
Magnus set up your pieces and play that op'ning hard cos hell's broke lose in Oslo and the Devil deals the cards / if you win you get these shiny pieces made of gold / but if you choke like did with Wojt the devil gets your soul
Devil opened up his case and fire flew from his fingertips as he opened with the Grob, and Magnus just like usual played the op'ning like a slob
by early midgame stockfish said the devil was slighter better / drove ole Carlsen in fact right out his Arctic sweater
When the midgame finished Carlsen said "well yer pretty good ole son," but you just sit your ass right down in the chair and let me show you how it's done!
Sauron sauron got em on the run
devil builds a fortress far from the sun
Anand bowed his head because he knew that he'd been beat and laid them golden pieces on the ground at Magyo's feet / Maggie said Anand come on back if you ever want to try it again / cause I laughed off my head on RxB / and you'll definitely do it again.
Anand's rise in the Indian chess world was meteoric. National level success came early for him when he won the National Sub-Junior Chess Championship with a score of 9/9 in 1983 at the age of fourteen. He became the youngest Indian to win the International Master's Title at the age of fifteen, in 1984. At the age of sixteen he became the National Champion and won that title two more times. He played games at blitz speed, earning him the nickname "Lightning Kid" ("Blitz chess" is known in India as "Lightning chess"). In 1987, he became the first Indian to win the World Junior Chess Championship. In 1988, at the age of eighteen, he became India's First Grandmaster.
"Vishy", as he is sometimes called, burst upon the upper echelons of the chess scene in the early 1990s, winning such tournaments as Reggio Emilia 1991 (ahead of Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov). Playing at such a high level did not slow him down either, and he continued to play games at blitz speed. In 1991, he lost in a tie-breaker to Anatoly Karpov in the quarter finals of the FIDE Knockout World Chess Championship.
Viswanathan Anand qualified for the Professional Chess Association World Chess Championship final by winning the candidates matches against Michael Adams and Gata Kamsky. In 1995, he played a title match against Kasparov in New York City's World Trade Center. After an opening run of eight draws (a record for the opening of a world championship match), Anand won game nine using a splendid sacrifice on the queen side, but then lost four of the next five. He lost the match 10.5 - 7.5.
Anand won three consecutive Advanced Chess tournaments in Leon, Spain after Garry Kasparov introduced this form of chess in 1998, and is widely recognized as the world's best Advanced Chess player, where humans may consult a computer to aid in their calculation of variations.
Viswanathan Anand's recent tournament successes include the prestigious Corus chess tournament in years 2003 and 2004 and Dortmund in 2004. He has won the annually held Monaco Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess Championships in years 1994, 1997, 2003 and 2005.
Anand has won the Chess Oscar in 1997, 1998, 2003, and 2004. His four Oscars ties him with Kasparov for the most ever, one better than Fischer's three. The Chess Oscar is awarded to the year's best player according to a world-wide poll of leading chess critics, writers, and journalists conducted by the Russian chess magazine 64.
Viswanathan Anand's game collection, My Best Games of Chess, was published in the year 1998 and was updated in 2001.
After several near misses, Anand finally won the FIDE World Chess Championship in 2000 after defeating Alexei Shirov 3.5 - 0.5 in the final match held at Teheran, thereby becoming the first Indian to win that title. He lost the title to Ruslan Ponomariov in 2002.
He became shared second in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005 (together with Peter Svidler) with 8.5 points out of 14 games, lagging 1.5 points behind the winner, Veselin Topalov.
In October 2003, the governing body of chess, FIDE, organized a rapid time control tournament in Cap d'Agde and billed it as the World Rapid Chess Championship. Each player had 25 minutes at the start of the game, with an additional 10 seconds after each move. Anand won this event ahead of ten of the other top twelve players in the world with Kasparov being the only missing player. Anand is still deservedly considered to be the world's finest Rapid Chess player.He has consistently won almost all rapid events defeating many top players and his main achievements in this Category are at : Corsica , Leon , Amber events where he dominated almost all elite players .
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