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    Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster, a former five-time World Chess Champion and a record two-time Chess...
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  • at the Wayback Machine, Chessbase, 15 February 2008 Anand takes a dig at Kasparov, Viswanathan Anand, The Hindu Gligorić, Svetozar (2002). Shall We Play...
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    Chess Championship 2010 match pitted the defending world champion, Viswanathan Anand, against challenger Veselin Topalov, for the title of World Chess...
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    a match between the world champion Magnus Carlsen and challenger Viswanathan Anand, to determine the World Chess Champion. It was held from 7 to 25 November...
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    Kramnik lost the title to Viswanathan Anand, who won the World Chess Championship 2007 tournament ahead of Kramnik. He challenged Anand at the World Chess Championship...
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    best-of-twelve-games match between the incumbent World Chess Champion, Viswanathan Anand, and the previous World Champion, Vladimir Kramnik. Kramnik had been...
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    Chess Championship 2013 was a match between reigning world champion Viswanathan Anand and challenger Magnus Carlsen, to determine the World Chess Champion...
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    Championship 2012 was a chess match between the defending World Champion Viswanathan Anand of India and Boris Gelfand of Israel, winner of the 2011 Candidates...
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    became World Chess Champion in 2013 by defeating Viswanathan Anand. He retained his title against Anand the following year and won both the 2014 World Rapid...
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  • honours of India, including the Padma awards and the Arjuna Award. Viswanathan Anand was the first sportsperson to receive the second-highest civilian...
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    Ruslan Ponomariov and Vladimir Kramnik.  Vladimir Kramnik (RUS), 2777  Viswanathan Anand (IND), 2766  Evgeny Bareev (RUS), 2739  Alexei Shirov (ESP), 2737...
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    form, may be used as an honorific. For example, Viswanathan Anand may be styled as "GM Viswanathan Anand". The term "master" for a strong chess player was...
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    primarily due to chess Grandmaster and former 5-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand. It is believed that chess originated from Chaturanga of ancient India...
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    Championship 2005. This tournament was won by Viswanathan Anand, thus making him the World Chess Champion. Because Anand's World Chess Champion title was won in...
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    of chess. It was an eight-player, double round robin tournament. Viswanathan Anand won the tournament and the title of World Chess Champion. His winning...
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    including the top seed and winner of the previous FIDE World Championship Viswanathan Anand. The championship was a knockout tournament similar to other FIDE...
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    Asrian; 2½‍–‍1½ Gelfand; 1½‍–‍½ Polgár; 3½‍–‍2½ Nisipeanu; 3½‍–‍2½ Akopian Anand had a bye in the first round. 1½‍–‍½ Bologan; 1½‍–‍½ Lputian; 1½‍–‍½ Macieja;...
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    conjunction with the All India Chess Federation. Former World Cup winner Viswanathan Anand defeated Rustam Kasimdzhanov in the final to retain the title. The...
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    tournament in Wijk aan Zee. He finished with +2, tying for fourth with Viswanathan Anand, behind Carlsen, Shirov, and Kramnik.[citation needed] In May, Nakamura...
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    World Chess Championship 2006 against Vladimir Kramnik. He challenged Viswanathan Anand at the World Chess Championship 2010, losing 6½–5½. He won the 2005...
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    champion, Viswanathan Anand to raise funds for those suffering due to the coronavirus pandemic. During the event, Kamath cheated against Anand by using...
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    addition to his tournament play, Kasimdzhanov was a longtime second to Viswanathan Anand, including during the 2008, 2010 and 2012 World Championship matches...
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    Gukesh officially surpassed Viswanathan Anand as the top-ranked Indian player, marking the first time in 37 years that Anand was not the top-ranked Indian...
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    average of the July 2004 and January 2005 lists: Garry Kasparov, Viswanathan Anand, Veselin Topalov and Alexander Morozevich. Kramnik refused to play...
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    with green background. Karjakin–Anand, round 4 Topalov–Karjakin, round 5 Aronian–Nakamura, round 6 The first round saw Anand beat Topalov after mutual blunders...
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    highest ranked player as of Apr 2024, overtaking former world champion Viswanathan Anand. A chess prodigy, he earned the title of grandmaster at the age of...
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    Vladimir Kramnik, Boris Spassky, Vasily Smyslov, Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Alexander Khalifman, and Rustam Kasimdzhanov....
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    Viswanathan Anand. The only other absentee from the top 25 was Ye Jiangchuan. All players are Grandmasters unless indicated otherwise.  Viswanathan Anand (IND)...
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    2009, his FIDE rating was just four points behind World Champion Viswanathan Anand. In November 2009, he competed in the Mikhail Tal Memorial and finished...
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    Anatoly Karpov, Vasyl Ivanchuk, Vladimir Kramnik, Garry Kasparov, Viswanathan Anand, Veselin Topalov, Levon Aronian, Sergey Karjakin, and Magnus Carlsen...
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