Write a biographical sketch of Vishwanathan Anand Grandmeter, world Chess Champion in your own words in not more than 100-120 words.
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Viswanathan Anand, (born December 11, 1969, Madras [now Chennai], India), Indian chess master who won the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE; international chess federation) world championship in 2000, 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2012.Anand, who first earned the nickname of the “Lightning Kid” in India, is known for quick tactical calculations, which he has displayed by winning numerous “speed chess” titles. In 1998 Anand published a collection of his games, Vishy Anand: My Best Games of Chess, which he expanded with new games in 2001.
biography of chess grandmaster Vishwanathan Anand..
• Vishwanathan Anand was born on December 11, 1969. He is an Indian chess grandmaster and the current World Chess Champion. Anand is one of four players in history to break the 2800 mark on the fide rating list and he has been among the top three ranked players in classical time control chess in the world continuously since 1997.
• In April 2007, Anand was ranked first in the world for the first time, and he retained the number one spot in the July 2007 list with a rating of 2792, a lead of 23 points. He is the sixth person to head the rating list since its inception in 1970; the other five being Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik and Topalov. Anand became the. Undisputed World Chess Champion on September 29, 2007 after winning the 2007 World Chess Championship Tournament held in Mexico City.
•Anand’s rise in the Indian chess world was meteoric. National level success came early for him when he won the National Sub-Junior Chess Championship in 1983 at the age of fourteen. He became the youngest Indian to win the International Master Title at the age of fifteen, in 1984. At the age of sixteen he became the national chess champion and won that title two more times. He played games at blitz speed. In 1988, at the age of eighteen, he became India’s first Grandmaster....