[blind-chess] Chess Article #39 Viswanathan Anand, World Chess Champion

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Chess Article #39
Viswanathan Anand - World Chess Champion
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Viswanathan Anand is the current World Chess Champion (as for 2008)
and the number 1 chess player in the world according to FIDE
ranking list with 2798 rating points. Born in Madras, India in
1969, Anand is highly admired personality in his homeland, which
happened to be the motherland of chess as well.

Viswanathan Anand Chess Opening

Like many other chess champions, Viswanathan Anand had caught the
chess fever at an early age. When he was six, his mother taught him
the secrets of chess play and when he was fourteen, he already won
the national Under-16 and Under-19 titles and semi-finalized the
Indian Championship. At fifteen, he was the youngest International
Master in India and at eighteen, the youngest Grand Master in the
world and the first Indian chess player to earn the title. From
there, the only was up to the World Chess Championship.

World Chess Championships

Before blending in the World Chess Championship cycle (which at the
beginning of the 1990s was split in two: the FIDE World
Championship and the World Chess Championship, organized by the
Professional Chess Association (PCA), Anand left his mark on the
elite of the pro chess circuit when winning the Reggio Emilia chess
tournament in 1991. Nevertheless, the path to the first World Chess
Championship was not always smooth. On the World Chess Championship
1993 cycle, he lost to Anatoly Karpov at the quarter-final match
and on the FIDE World Chess Championship 1996 cycle to Gata Kamsky.

At the 1995 PCA cycle, Anand bested his rivals and had eventually
found himself competing against Garry Kasparov at the PCA World
Chess Championship 1995 in New York. Though losing 10.5 - 7.5,
Anand, who opened his World Championship match with a series of
eight draws that followed with a striking win followed by five
disappointing losses, had made a remarkable impression on the world
of chess.

After several trials and errors, in 2000, Viswanathan Anand won his
first world title in the FIDE World Chess Championship and became
the first Indian to hold the most important title in chess. At the
same year, a Classical World Championship took place, thus Anand
had to "share" the title with Vladimir Kramnik of Russia. Yet seven
years later, at the FIDE World Championship Tournament held in
Mexico City summer of 2007, Anand stripped the world title from the
defending champion, Kramnik again, and the became the undisputed
World Chess Champion.
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