Topic: Viswanathan Anand
Viswanathan Anand, who was born December 11, 1969, is an Indian chess grandmaster and former FIDE world champion. Anand's recent tournament successes include the prestigious Corus chess tournament in 2006 (tied with Veselin Topalov), Dortmund in 2004, and Linares in 2007. Anand ...
Experienced players know that they can use the psychological nature of this fascinating game to their advantage. Grandmaster Anatoly Karpov is known as a player who calculates positions very well and defends superbly. With this knowledge, an opponent of Anatoly Karpov may ...
Gloom spread in the chess world in 2003 as hopes for a timely reunification of the world-title system, as envisaged in the Prague Agreement of May 2002, were not realized. The agreement that had apparently healed the schism dating from Russian Garry ...
The parallel but entirely separate realms of the Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE), the world ruling body founded in 1924, and former FIDE champion Garry Kasparov of Russia continued in 2000. Kasparov, who split with FIDE in 1993, spent many months anticipating ...
In 2004 reunification of the individual chess world title system, as envisaged in the Prague Agreement of May 2002 between the Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE), the world ruling body, and many, but not all, of the world's top players, continued-but in ...
India's defending champion Viswanathan Anand retained his world chess title on Tuesday by defeating Bulgarian challenger Veselin Topalov in the last of their 12-game duel.Anand, nicknamed the "Tiger from Madras," beat Topalov on the 56th move after a series of twists.Ahead of ...
India's defending world chess champion Viswanathan Anand maintained his lead over Bulgaria's Veselin Topalov Monday after the latest in a series of draws in their duel for the title.In the seventh of 12 games, Anand and Topalov negotiated a draw on the ...
India's defending champion Viswanathan Anand took the lead Thursday after decisively winning the fourth game of his 12-game match for the world chess title against Bulgarian challenger Veselin Topalov.He now leads by 2.5-1.5 points in the total score.The 40-year-old Anand, known as ...
India's defending champion Viswanathan Anand took the lead Thursday after decisively winning the fourth game of his 12-game match for the world chess title against Bulgarian challenger Veselin Topalov.He now leads by 2.5-1.5 points in the total score.The 40-year-old Anand, known as ...
India's defending champion Viswanathan Anand took the lead Thursday after decisively winning the fourth game of his 12-game match for the world chess title against Bulgarian challenger Veselin Topalov.He now leads by 2.5-1.5 points in the total score.The 40-year-old Anand, known as ...
