Blind Preference to Vishy Anand

It is good to biased upon country you live. 

I have no problem if people here from India chose Anand or not but the main thing is to support people from your own country. 

Always ALWAYS!!! America FIRST AND THEN The Philippines.

ALWAYS Support your country.

I'm about to name some World Leaders but I don't want this thread to get hijacked. Very strong opinionated about these FAKE people.

Anonymous,  Vishy is one of my favorite players, and I'm not Indian.

You mention objectively deciding who's better. Better in what way ? Most things cannot be measured on a mathematical scale like an Elo rating. A chess player can have other attributes like exciting play, a personal life, charisma, charitable activities and courage to maintain principles when confronted by a tyrannical government. Of course there's nationality. Vishy is the only World Champion from India. 

No sense having a cow over someone else's preferences. When I was a schoolboy we would end an argument with de gustibus non disputandum est. I like rhubarb pie and most others don't. Regards. 

I honestly only support people for the moves they make on the board so I go for Magnus 😇

Have a poll to pick between two different World Champions , one of them being Vishy and you will end up with 90 percent of Indians (if not more) voting for Vishy . 

And this is not them thinking objectively and deciding who's better , but them picking Vishy because of their bias . They support Vishy solely for the reason that he's Indian .

Now I understand , everyone does have a soft corner for their countrymen .....but it's on a different level when it comes to my fellow Indians . I don't see the Russians idolize and rant about Kasparov all the time . Same with the Americans and Bobby Fischer . 

And this is what I have been trying to understand . Why is it that , for an average Indian Vishy is the preference even before they actually try to think in an intellectually honest way ? 

Would love to hear your thoughts on it . Also please note , this post has nothing against Anand . I admire him for his humbleness and talent . And there's certainly not any problem with him being anyone's preference ....but my problem is ....well I have already elaborated it above . 

Have a poll to pick between two different World Champions , one of them being Vishy and you will end up with 90 percent of Indians (if not more) voting for Vishy . 

And this is not them thinking objectively and deciding who's better , but them picking Vishy because of their bias . They support Vishy solely for the reason that he's Indian .

Now I understand , everyone does have a soft corner for their countrymen .....but it's on a different level when it comes to my fellow Indians . I don't see the Russians idolize and rant about Kasparov all the time . Same with the Americans and Bobby Fischer . 

And this is what I have been trying to understand . Why is it that , for an average Indian Vishy is the preference even before they actually try to think in an intellectually honest way ? 

Would love to hear your thoughts on it . Also please note , this post has nothing against Anand . I admire him for his humbleness and talent . And there's certainly not any problem with him being anyone's preference ....but my problem is ....well I have already elaborated it above . 

i cant really explain it as its more of a thing where people just choose to root for their hero, in this case vishy cause he is a national icon and the person who has made Indian chess what it is today and he has done it unlike anyone else. magnus carlsen, bobby fischer, gary kasparov, and some others like fabi, hikaru, and nepo have promoted chess in some aspect for their countries but they are incomparable to vishy as being a figure for the future of chess.

now obviously this doesnt mean people have to pick vishy but there is just a lot of lore and reasoning on why people would just cheer for their figure considering all he has done for chess in Indian which again is pretty much incomparable to anyone else.

I think part of it is because Vishy is more recent than Fischer.  Americans used to be much bigger Fischer fanatics than they are now.  Kasparov not being idolized as much might be explained by the number of great Russian or Soviet players there have been.  

Anonymous,  Vishy is one of my favorite players, and I'm not Indian.

You mention objectively deciding who's better. Better in what way ? Most things cannot be measured on a mathematical scale like an Elo rating. A chess player can have other attributes like exciting play, a personal life, charisma, charitable activities and courage to maintain principles when confronted by a tyrannical government. Of course there's nationality. Vishy is the only World Champion from India. 

No sense having a cow over someone else's preferences. When I was a schoolboy we would end an argument with de gustibus non disputandum est. I like rhubarb pie and most others don't. Regards. 

There's a difference when it comes to giving an opinion of who's better and who's their favorite. I see many fans on here making threads like the current vishy vs magnus. They might be involved in a popularity contest rather than who the better player is. Which is The Magster of course. Come on, we all know it!  Amirite y'all? 

Infiltration from within. The corrupt politicians and the invisible enemy will install certain athletes (Colin Kaepernick is probably the best example) in sports organizations to see if they can convince the people that America is bad, and all they aim to do is divide the people. Because divided, we are weak, united, we are strong.

Solution is to ignore these politicians and athletes and acknowledge that THEY are the enemy of we the people, and not ourselves.