Think Fast Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand Wins World Rapid Championships Yet Again
(built-in Dec-11-1969, 52 years former) India
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Vishwanathan Anand ("Vishy" to his fans) was the 15th undisputed Earth Champion, reigning from 2007 until 2013. He was also FIDE World Champion from 2000-2002. Anand was born in 1969 in Mayiladuthurai, a small town in southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, only grew up in Chennai. His female parent taught him to play chess, aged six.
Trailblazer
As an Indian and an Asian chess player, Anand blazed a trail with a number of firsts, including in 1984 becoming the youngest Indian to earn the title of IM (anile fourteen), condign the youngest ever Indian Champion at sixteen, becoming in 1987 the first Indian to win the Earth Junior Championship and Republic of india's get-go grandmaster, and condign Bharat's (and Asia'south) starting time World Champion. He was also the beginning World Champion since Robert James Fischer and the second since Max Euwe who did not originate from Russia or eastern Europe. Anand was, moreover, the get-go and only role player to have won the putative world championship via knockout tournament, round robin tournament and traditional match play.
Championships
<Youth and Junior>: Anand's first serious touch on in Indian chess was as a 14 year sometime, winning the 1983-84 National Sub-Junior Title with a perfect score of nine/9. From 1983 until 1986, he was the National Inferior (nether 19) Champion and in 1984 and again in 1985 he won Lloyd's Banking concern Junior championship. Also in 1984 and again in 1985, Anand won the Asian Junior (under 19) Championships, the youngest to attain this distinction. Anand capped his junior career by winning the 1987 World Inferior Chess Championship.
<National>: Anand won the Indian National Championships in 1986, 1987 and 1988.
<Continental>: In 1986, Anand won the Arab-Asian International Chess Championship. In 1989, he won the 2nd Asian Active Chess Championship held in Hong Kong. In 1990 he won the Asian Open Chess Championship in Manila.
<World>: Anand's first tilt at the World Championship cycle took identify during the last of the traditional FIDE cycles that had been established later World War Ii, albeit a cycle cutting short at the final by Kasparov's split from FIDE in 1993. Anand kicked off his world title campaign when he won the gold medal at the 1990 Asian Zonal Championship, qualifying for the Manila Interzonal later that year. He came tertiary at that Interzonal, half a indicate behind co-leaders Vassily Ivanchuk and Boris Gelfand, thereby qualifying for the Candidates Matches. In 1991, he defeated Alexey Dreev in Chennai in the showtime round of Candidates matches, but lost to Anatoly Karpov in Brussels in the quarter finals.
In 1993, Anand came =1st with Michael Adams at the PCA Interzonal tournament in Groningen, the strongest Swiss tournament played until that fourth dimension. Too in 1993, he contested the Biel FIDE Interzonal Tournament, coming tenth in a tightly fought contest, thereby qualifying for the FIDE Candidates bike. In the PCA Candidates, Anand defeated Oleg Romanishin five-two in a best of eight match held in New York in 1994, then followed up presently afterwards with a 5.v-1.5 demolition of Adams at Linares in the Candidates semi-concluding. In Las Palmas in 1995, he defeated Gata Kamsky in the final for the correct to meet Garry Kasparov. In 1995, Anand met Kasparov at the Earth Merchandise Center in New York to play the match. After an opening run of 8 draws, Anand won game nine but lost four of the side by side five to eventually concede the match 10½–seven½. Conversely, in the concurrent FIDE wheel, Anand lost his quarter-final match to Kamsky, who went on to lose the 1996 FIDE championship match against Karpov. In 1997, Anand won the knock-out matches at Groningen for an opportunity to challenge FIDE Globe Champion Karpov, defeating Predrag Nikolic ii-0, Alexander Khalifman 3.v-2.v (in the rapid and blitz tiebreak), Zoltan Almasi 2-0, Alexey Shirov one.v-0.5, Boris Gelfand 1.v-0.five, and Adams five-4 in a difficult fought sudden death tiebreaker. In the 1998 FIDE cycle, FIDE controversially seeded the reigning champion Karpov directly into the terminal confronting the winner of the seven-round single elimination Candidates tournament. Despite coming through an extremely arduous campaign of 31 games in 30 days, Anand was able to depict the regular match 3-3, forcing a rapid playoff. However, the rapid playoff was won 2-0 by Karpov, allowing him to defend his FIDE championship.
In 2000, Anand beat Alexey Shirov 3½–½ in the final lucifer held at Tehran to become the FIDE World Chess Champion, subsequently defeating Viktor Antonovich Bologan, Smbat Gariginovich Lputian, Bartlomiej Macieja, Khalifman, and Adams in the preliminary rounds. He failed to defend the championship in 2002, losing in the semifinals to Ivanchuk subsequently defeating Olivier Touzane, Peter Heine Nielsen, Vladislav Ivanovich Tkachiev, Dreev, and Shirov in the earlier rounds. Anand did not compete in the FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament (2004), but tied for second with Peter Svidler in the FIDE Earth Championship Tournament (2005) at San Luis in United mexican states with 8½ points out of 14 games, i½ points behind the winner, Veselin Topalov. On the footing of his results at San Luis, Anand was seeded directly into the double circular-robin World Championship Tournament (2007) in Mexico Urban center, which he won with a score of 9/xiv points, a full point ahead of articulation second place finishers, Vladimir Kramnik and Boris Gelfand, thereby succeeding Kramnik equally the championship holder of the unified World Title. In Bonn in October 2008, Anand successfully retained his crown when he won the twelve-game Anand - Kramnik World Championship Friction match (2008) by six.five-4.5 (+3 -1 =vii). The following year, he successfully defended his championship in the Anand - Topalov World Championship Lucifer (2010) by half-dozen.v-5.v after winning the 12th and final classical game scheduled for the match. In May 2012, he faced the winner of the World Title Candidates (2011), Boris Gelfand, to again successfully defend his championship, winning the Anand - Gelfand World Title Match (2012) 2.5-i.5 (+1 =3) in the rapid game tiebreaker after cartoon the classical games 6-6 (+1 -ane =x).
As a upshot of Magnus Carlsen winning the World Title Candidates (2013), the Anand - Carlsen Earth Championship Match (2013) was played in November 2013. The first four games were drawn before Carlsen won the fifth and sixth games. The 7th and eighth games were drawn, with Carlsen then winning the ninth game and drawing the 10th and last game to win the crown from Anand, producing a final score of 6.five-three.v (+3 =vii) in Carlsen'due south favor.
Rematch with Carlsen 2014
Anand's loss in the 2013 World Championship friction match with Carlsen did, however, qualify him to play in the World Chess Championship Candidates (2014), which he won with a circular to spare. He therefore won the correct to claiming Carlsen in a rematch, the Carlsen - Anand World Championship Lucifer (2014), which commenced on eight November 2014 in Sochi, in Russian federation and finished on 23 November.
The first game of the lucifer was a fighting describe, with Anand playing a queen pawn's opening and Carlsen successfully defending a Grunfeld. Carlsen drew start blood in game ii, playing the White side of a quiet Ruy Lopez. After the first rest day, Anand struck dorsum strongly, playing the White side of a Queen'due south Gambit Declined (D37), and overcame Carlsen earlier the first time control. In game 4, Anand played the Sicilian, but Carlsen steered the opening into a tranquillity positional struggle that concluded in a draw. Game 5 was a Queen's Indian Defence which besides ended in a depict. Game half dozen may have been the turning bespeak in the match. Playing Black, Anand missed a simple tactical stroke that would have given him a very strong, if not winning position. After missing this continuation, Anand's game weakened and Carlsen brought home the point to take the atomic number 82 in the lucifer for the second time.
Anand dedicated Game vii with another Berlin Defence merely eventually encountered difficulties and surrendered a piece for two pawns. Even so, his defense force kept Carlsen at bay for 122 moves before the game was finally drawn due to insufficient mating material on the lath. Game 8 in the match was another QGD, with Anand playing White. Carlsen introduced an innovation from his home preparation that guaranteed him a relatively easy draw, forcing a mass substitution of pieces that left the position hands fatigued. Later on the fourth rest day, play resumed with Anand employing a Berlin Defense to Carlsen'southward Ruy Lopez. The game soon finished through a draw by repetition, with Carlsen content to maintain his 1-point lead. In Game ten, Anand again faced Carlsen defending a Grunfeld, albeit non as convincingly as in Game 1. Anand had a long initiative just failed to secure the win, with Carlsen exhausting the opportunities against him to force the draw. Game 11 was some other Berlin Defense force past Anand which turned into a complex and hard fought center game following an innovation by him on the queenside, which he followed upwardly with an exchange sacrifice. Anand was unable to brand sufficient inroads into Carlsen'due south position, and later on a series of trades that increased Carlsen's textile advantage, Anand resigned the game and the match.
Lucifer result: Anand lost by 4.5-six.5 (+1 -3 =7).
World Championship Wheel 2016
As the loser of his world title challenge to Carlsen in 2014, Anand automatically qualified for the Candidates Tournament of 2016.
Tournaments
Anand is the only player to have won the super tournament at Wijk aan Zee (Corus from 1989-2010) five times. He is the first role player to have achieved victories in each of the 3 big chess supertournaments: Corus/Wijk aan Zee (1989, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2006), Linares (1998, 2007, 2008), Dortmund (1996, 2000, 2004).
One of Anand's earliest serious successes in international tournaments that brought him to international attention include his tie for starting time place in the Sakthi Finance International Grandmasters Chess Tournament in 1987, enabling him to win his 3rd GM norm, and thereby condign the youngest Grandmaster in the world at that fourth dimension. In 1989, he competed in the fourth International Games Festival in France, placing 2nd overall in the Veterans vs. Youth Tournament, although he was first in the Youth category. During that event, Anand defeated former World Champions, Mikhail Tal and Boris Spassky in their private encounters. In 1990, he won the 1990 Manchester Chess Festival and was =1st in the 1990 Triveni Super Grandmasters Tournament in Delhi. In 1992, Anand finished first in the category 18 Reggio Emilia Chess Tournament ahead of Kasparov and Karpov in the strongest tournament ever held until this time. Besides in 1992, he won the Goodrich Open International Tournament in Kolkata and won the category xviii Alekhine Memorial tournament in Moscow ahead of Karpov. This raised Anand's rating to 2700, making him only the eighth person to attain the mark at that fourth dimension. In 1994, he won the PCA Grand Prix in Moscow ahead of Kasparov
Major successes followed rapidly in 1996, when he finished 2nd at the Las Palmas super tournament and at the Magistral Tournament in Leon. At that place followed, in 1997, wins in the category 19 tournament in Dos Hermanes, the Invesbanka Chess tournament in Belgrade, the Credit Suisse Archetype Tournament in Biel, and second identify in Dortmund. In 1998 he won the category 21 (average 2752) Linares tournament, as well equally at Madrid and at the Fontys-Tilburg International Chess Tournament. In 1999, he won again at Wijk aan Zee. In 2000, he was runner up at Linares, won at Leon (beating Shirov 1½:½) and at Dortmund and also at the 2000 FIDE Earth Cup in Shenyeng, defeating Evgeny Ilgizovich Bareev ane.5 - 0.five in the final to win. He successfully defended his World Cup title in 2002 in Hyderabad. In 2001, Anand finished 1st in the 2nd Torneo Magistral Tournament in Mexico Metropolis, a articulate point ahead Nigel Short, Khalifman and Hernandez. In 2002, he won the Eurotel Globe Chess Trophy in Prague, defeating Jan Timman (2-0), Khalifman (2-0), Sokolov (1.v-0.five), Ivanchuk (2.v-one.5) and Karpov (ane.5-0.5) in the terminal. He won Corus in 2003 and 2004, and took out Dortmund in 2004. In spring of 2006, following a tape-extending 5th victory at Corus Grouping A (2006), Anand became only the 4th player e'er to crevice the 2800-Elo mark in FIDE ratings, following Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, and Veselin Topalov. A few months after he won the World Championship in 2007, he won the (category 21) Morelia-Linares (2008) outright with eight.5 points, winning at Linares for the third fourth dimension in his career. Post-obit mediocre (for Anand) results in 2012 which saw him sideslip out of the elevation 5 for the showtime time in most 20 years, Anand scored 8/13 to place =third behind Carlsen and Aronian at the category 20 Tata Steel Grouping A (2013) consequence, and defeated Aronian in circular four in a game that is becoming known as Anand'southward Immortal.*
2013 saw Anand breaking his tournament drought past winning outright at the category 19 GRENKE Chess Archetype (2013) with 6.5/10, winning in the final circular to head off Fabiano Caruana past one-half a point at the pass. This was his showtime tournament win since Linares in 2008. A few weeks later he placed 2nd behind Caruana at the Category 21 Zurich Chess Challenge (2013) with 3/six (+1 -1 =4), losing i game to Caruana and defeating Kramnik in his sole win. In April-May 2013, Anand placed outright 3rd at the category 20 Alekhine Memorial (2013), a one-half point behind Levon Aronian and Gelfand, with v/9 (+2 -ane =half-dozen), a par for rating performance. Soon afterwards he played in the category 21 Norway Chess (2013), scoring v/9, another par for rating effort. His next tournament was the category 22 Tal Memorial (2013) in June 2013 was ane of his worst results in many years, finishing near the bottom of the field with iii.v/nine (+1 -3 =five), as well causing him to shed 11 rating points and 4 places in his world ranking.
Subsequently he lost his title defense to Carlsen, Anand next's tournament was the category 23 Zurich Chess Challenge (2014) in which he placed quaternary with a scored of two/5. In the atomic number 82 up to the return match against Carlsen in November 2014, Anand placed a decisive 1st at the category 21 Bilbao Masters (2014), winning with a round to spare in the six game round robin upshot. Soon after his unsuccessful effort to regain the crown from Carlsen in Nov 2014, Anand won the category 22 London Chess Classic (2014) in Dec 2014 alee of Kramnik, Giri, Nakamura, Adams and Caruana. A few months later he racked upward some other major league triumph when he won standard section of the category 22 RR Zurich Chess Challenge (2015) ahead of outright runner-up, Hikaru Nakamura and the supporting cast of Kramnik, Sergey Karjakin, Aronian and Caruana respectively. He was unable to maintain the atomic number 82 in the follow-up section of the outcome, the Zurich Chess Challenge (Rapid) (2015), and tied with Nakamura for first place. Still, he lost an Armageddon tiebreaker to finish with 2d prize. Anand continued his stiff form at the category 21 Gashimov Memorial (2015) held in April 2015, placing outright second with 6/9 (+3 =6), a betoken behind the winner Carlsen, and a point ahead of joint tertiary place getters Wesley So and Fabiano Caruana. 2 months later, he again displayed his excellent course, finishing an undefeated 2nd behind a resurgent Topalov at the category 22 Norway Chess (2015) effect in Stavanger, with 6/9 (+3 =6; TPR 2899) and defeating Carlsen in their individual game.
Olympiads
Anand played board four for India in 1984, and pinnacle board in 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 2004 and 2006, winning a silver medal on meridian lath in 2004.
Matches
In 1992, Anand defeated the then number 3 Vassily Ivanchuk by v:3 in a match held in Linares. In 1997, he played an exhibition simul against six computers at the Aegon Man Vs Computers chess event, winning four-2. In 1998 at the Siemens Nixdorf Duell (Rapid) event in Frankfurt, he beat out the and then world open category computer chess champion Fritz 5 (1.five-0.5). In 1999 at the Torneo Magistral de Ajedrez in Leon, he vanquish Karpov 5:one. He won the 2001 "Duel of the Champions", defeating Kramnik in a rapid game match 6.5-five.v and in 2009, he defeated Leko 5-3 in the Leko - Anand Rapid Match (2009).
Teams
In 1986, he won a team argent medal and a an individual gold medal for board four in the Asian Team Championship. He scored 7/7 in the 1989 Asian Team Chess Championship thereby helping his team to a team bronze too as winning the top board prize as well every bit the private all-time performance of the tournament. He has played in the Bundesliga, the French and Hungarian Squad Championships and the European Club Cup. In 2009, he atomic number 82 the Residual of the Globe from lath ane to a decisive 21.v-ten.v victory in the Azerbaijan vs the World (2009) event. He played top lath for Baden-Baden in a couple of rounds, helping his team to win the 2013-14 Bundesliga.
Rapids
Anand has ever been renowned for the speed of his calculation and moves. His early classical games were frequently played at close to blitz speed and this prowess has stood him in skillful stead to enable him to become maybe the greatest blitz and rapid thespian of all time. His prowess at quick-play chess has earned him the nickname "The Lightning Kid."
The Chess Classic at Mainz, substantially the annual open up earth rapid championship, that had commenced in 1994 and finished upward in 2010 had go Anand's personal property as he won it xi times out of the 17 times it had been staged, including nine consecutive wins from 2000 through to 2008. In addition, he has won the annual overall Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess Championships in 1994, 1997, 2003, 2005 and 2006, the Amber Rapid 7 times, and he was the only player to win the bullheaded and rapid sections of the Amber tournament in the same year (twice: in 1997 and 2005). Other significant sequences were the half-dozen consecutive wins at Corsica from 1999 through 2005, and seven wins at Leon in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, Ciudad de Leon XVIII (2005), 19 Ciudad de Leon (2006), and 2007. Other victories include 1st place at the 1996 Credit Swiss Rapid Chess Grand Prix, in Geneva, where he trounce Garry Kasparov in the final, 1st in Wydra in Haifa in 1999 and 2000, 1st in the 2000 Plus GSM World Blitz Chess Cup in Warsaw where he won outright with 17.5 Points in 22 Games, defeating Karpov, Gelfand and Svidler, 1st in the 2000 Fujitsu Siemens Giants Chess (Rapid) in Frankfurt, winning the 2006 Mikhail Tal Memorial Blitz Tournament in Moscow with 23/34, which involved winning 11 out of 17 mini-matches to claim the strongest Blitz tournament in the history of the game, beating his eventual successor to the rapid crown, Aronian, past a ii point margin. He is also the 2003 FIDE Globe Rapid Chess Champion by virtue of winning the Cap D'Agde FRA (2003). On 27 March 2011 in Tashkent in Uzbekistan, Anand defeated Rustam Kasimdzhanov in a rapid play match by iii.5-0.five and in September 2011, he won the Botvinnik Memorial Rapid (2011) ahead of Aronian, Kramnik and Carlsen with four.5/half dozen (+3 =3 -0). In In June 2011, he won the rapid XXIV Magistral de Ajedrez Ciudad de Leon (2011) 4.5-1.5 (+3 -0 =3) and in October 2011, he defeated Shakhriyar Mamedyarov by ii-0 in the final to win the Corsica Masters Knockout (2011).
Anand competed in the rejigged London Classic of 2013, and qualified for the final rounds by placing =1st in the London Chess Classic (Group A) (2013), but and then lost to Kramnik in the London Chess Classic (Knockout) (2013). He placed =2nd in the World Rapid Title (2014) with ten.5/fifteen, half a point behind the winner, Carlsen, whom he defeated in their individual encounter, and scored 13.5/21 (placing =5th) in the World Blitz Championship (2014). He came =3rd with 8/10 at the London Chess Classic 2014 Super Rapidplay Open. Anand became the World Rapid Champion when he won the World Rapid Championship (2017) following a two-game blitz playoff for offset with immature Russian Grandmaster Vladimir Fedoseev.
Awards
Anand has won the Chess Oscar on 6 occasions, in 1997, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2007, and 2008. He has received many other national and international awards including the Arjuna award for Outstanding Indian Sportsman in Chess in 1985, the inaugural Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, Republic of india's highest sporting honor in the year 1991–1992, the British Chess Federation'due south 'Book of the Year' Laurels in 1998 for his book My Best Games of Chess, the Padma Bhushan in 2000, the Sportstar Millennium Honour in 1998 from India's premier Sports magazine for existence the sportperson of the millennium. In 2007, he was awarded India's 2nd highest noncombatant award, the Padma Vibhushan, making him the first sportsperson to receive the accolade in Indian history and received the 'Global Strategist Award' for mastering many formats of World Chess Championships by National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) in 2011.
Personal
Anand holds a Bachelor'southward caste in Commerce from Loyola College in Chennai, India. Previously, he attended Loftier School at Don Bosco. He is married to Aruna Anand and lives in Chennai along with his son Akhil Anand. In August 2010, Anand joined the Board of Directors of Olympic Gold Quest, a foundation for promoting and supporting India's elite sportspersons and potential young talent. In 2010 Anand donated his World Championship gold medal from his successful 2008 title defense force to the charitable organisation "The Foundation" to be auctioned off for the benefit of underprivileged children.
Rating and Ranking
Anand is one of viii players in history to officially crack the 2800 mark, peaking at 2817 in March and May 2011, when he was also ranked world #i. Betwixt April 2007 and May 2011, Anand was ranked globe #ane for a total of 21 months.
At the age of 45 and after placing second at the Gashimov Memorial Tournament in Shamkir, Anand re-entered the "2800 club" for the first fourth dimension since exiting that rating bracket in Nov 2011. His result at the Norway Chess tournament in June 2015 pushed his rating back up to 2816, close to his summit rating to date, and to #2 in the world backside Carlsen.
Sources and references
Live rating: http://www.2700chess.com/ ; Biography of Anand at the official FIDE website for the 2012 Globe Championship match: http://moscow2012.fide.com/en/prese... ; Wikipedia commodity: Viswanathan Anand ; * Aronian vs Anand, 2013
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