Viswanathan Anand

In this Indian name, the name Viswanathan is a

patronymic, not a family name, and the person should be
referred to by the given name, Anand.

gree of Bachelor of Commerce from Loyola College,

Chennai.[13]

Viswanathan Vishy Anand (born 11 December

1969) is an Indian chess Grandmaster and former World
Chess Champion.

2 Personal life
In August 2010, Anand joined the board of directors
of Olympic Gold Quest, a foundation for promoting and
supporting Indias elite sportspersons and potential young
talent.[14][15][16] On 24 December 2010 Anand was guest
of honour on the grounds of Gujarat university, Ahmedabad, where 20,486 players created a new world record
of simultaneous chess play at single venue.[17]

He held the FIDE World Chess Championship from 2000

to 2002, at a time when the world title was split. He
became the undisputed World Champion in 2007 and
defended his title against Vladimir Kramnik in 2008.
He then defended his title in the World Chess Championship 2010 against Veselin Topalov and in the World
Chess Championship 2012[2] against Boris Gelfand. In
the World Chess Championship 2013 he lost to challenger Magnus Carlsen and he lost again to Carlsen in the
World Chess Championship 2014.[3]

His hobbies are reading, swimming, and listening to music. He is married to Aruna Anand and has a son born on
9 April 2011.[18]

Anand has been regarded as an unassuming person with

Anand is one of nine players in history to pass 2800 Elo
a reputation for refraining from political and psychologon the FIDE rating list.[4] He occupied the number one
ical ploys and instead focusing on his game.[19] This has
position for 21 months, the 6th longest on record.[5]
made him a well-liked gure throughout the chess world
Viswanathan Anand became Indias rst grandmaster in for two decades, evidenced by the fact that Garry Kas1988.[6] He was also the rst recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi parov, Vladimir Kramnik, and Magnus Carlsen, of whom
Khel Ratna Award in 199192, Indias highest sporting the former two were rivals for the World Championship
honour. In 2007, he was awarded Indias second highest throughout Anands career, each aided him in preparing
civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan, making him the for the World Chess Championship 2010.[20][21] Anand
rst sports person to receive the award.
is sometimes known as the Tiger of Madras.[22]

Anand was the only sportsperson to have been invited for

the dinner hosted by the Indian PM Manmohan Singh for
US President Barack Obama on 7 November 2010.[23]

Early life

Anand was denied an honorary doctorate from University

of Hyderabad because of confusion over his citizenship
status; however, later Kapil Sibal, Indias Minister of Human Resource Development apologised and said There
is no issue on the matter as Anand has agreed to accept the degree at a convenient time depending on his
availability.[24] According to The Hindu, Anand nally
declined to accept the doctorate.[25]

Viswanathan Anand was born on 11 December 1969 at

Mayiladuthurai, Tamil Nadu .[7][8] Shortly thereafter, his
family moved to Madras (now Chennai), where he grew
up.[1] His father, Viswanathan Iyer, is a retired General Manager of Southern Railways, had studied in Jamalpur Bihar, and his mother Susheela was a housewife
and chess/lm/club acionado and an inuential socialite.
Anand is the youngest of 3 children. He is 11 years
younger than his sister and 13 years younger than his
brother. His elder brother, Shivakumar is a manager at 3
Crompton Greaves in India and his elder sister, Anuradha, is a professor in the United States at the University
3.1
of Michigan.[9][10]

Chess career
Early career

Anand learnt chess from age six from his mother and a Anands rise in the Indian chess world was meteoric. Naclose family friend named Deepa Ramakrishnan.[11]
tional level success came early for him when he won the
Anand was educated at Don Bosco Matriculation Higher National Sub-Junior Chess Championship with a score
Secondary School,[12] Egmore, Chennai and holds a de- of 9/9 in 1983 at the age of fourteen. He became the
1

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youngest Indian to win the title of International Master at
the age of fteen, 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 1987,
he became the rst Indian to win the World Junior Chess
Championship. In 1988, at the age of eighteen, he became Indias rst Grandmaster by winning the Shakti Finance International chess tournament held in Coimbatore,
India. He was awarded Padma Shri at the age of 18.

3 CHESS CAREER
was granted direct seeding by FIDE into the nal against
the winner of the seven-round single elimination Candidates tournament. The psychological and physical advantage gained by Karpov from this decision caused signicant controversy, leading to the withdrawal of future
World Champion Vladimir Kramnik from the candidates
tournament. Anand won the candidates tournament, defeating Michael Adams in the nal, and immediately
faced a well-rested Karpov for the championship. Despite
this tremendous disadvantage for Anand, which he described as being brought in a con to play Karpov,[19]
the regular match ended 33, which led to a rapid playo,
which Karpov won 20. Karpov thus remained the FIDE
champion.

3.2 World Chess championships

3.2.1 FIDE World Champion 2000
Main article: FIDE World Chess Championship 2000
After several near misses, Anand won the FIDE World
Chess Championship in 2000 for the rst time after defeating Alexei Shirov 30 in the nal match held at
Tehran, thereby becoming the rst Indian to win that title.
He failed to defend the title in 2002, losing in the seminals to Vassily Ivanchuk. The 2002 FIDE world championship was ultimately won by Ruslan Ponomariov. Anand
tied for second with Peter Svidler in the FIDE World
Chess Championship 2005 with 8 points out of 14
games, 1 points behind the winner, Veselin Topalov.
Anand at the Manila 1992 Olympiad, age 22

3.2.2 World Champion 2007

In the World Chess Championship 1993 cycle Anand
qualied for his rst Candidates Tournament, winning his Main article: World Chess Championship 2007
rst match but narrowly losing his quarter-nal match to
Anatoly Karpov.[26]
In September 2007 Anand became World Champion
In 199495 Anand and Gata Kamsky dominated the again by winning that years FIDE World Championship
qualifying cycles for the rival FIDE and PCA world Tournament held in Mexico City. He won the double
championships. In the FIDE cycle (FIDE World Chess round-robin tournament with a nal score of 9 out of 14
Championship 1996), Anand lost his quarter-nal match points, a full point ahead of joint second-place nishers
to Kamsky after leading early.[27] Kamsky went on to lose Vladimir Kramnik and Boris Gelfand.
the 1996 FIDE championship match against Karpov.
In 2000, when Anand won the FIDE World ChampiIn the 1995 PCA cycle, Anand won matches against
Oleg Romanishin and Michael Adams without a loss,
then avenged his FIDE loss by defeating Gata Kamsky
in the Candidates nal.[28] In 1995, he played the PCA
World Chess Championship 1995 against Kasparov in
New York Citys World Trade Center. After an opening run of eight draws (a record for the opening of a world
championship match), Anand won game nine with a powerful exchange sacrice, but then lost four of the next ve.
He lost the match 107.

onship, there was also the rival Classical World Championship, held by Kramnik. By 2007, the world championship had been reunied, so Anands victory in Mexico City made him undisputed World Chess Champion.
He became the rst undisputed champion to win the title
in a tournament, rather than in matchplay, since Mikhail
Botvinnik in 1948.

In October 2007, Anand said he liked the double round

robin championship format (as used in the 2007 championship in Mexico City), and that the right of Kramnik to
In the 1998 FIDE cycle, the reigning champion Karpov automatically challenge for the title was ridiculous.[29]

3.2

World Chess championships

3
22.Qd2 Qxd2 23.Rxd2 Bh6 24.Rf2 Be3
Responding to Anands win, Garry Kasparov said A
great result for Anand and for chess. Vishy deserved the
win in every way and I'm very happy for him. It will not
be easy for the younger generation to push him aside...
Anand out-prepared Kramnik completely. In this way
it reminded me of my match with Kramnik in London
2000. Like I was then, Kramnik may have been very well
prepared for this match, but we never saw it.[33] In 2010
Anand donated his gold medal to the charitable organisation "The Foundation" to be auctioned o for the benet
of underprivileged children.[34]

3.2.4 World Champion 2010

Main article: World Chess Championship 2010

Anand in 2007

3.2.3

World Champion 2008

Main article: World Chess Championship 2008

Before the World Chess Championship 2010 match with

Veselin Topalov, Anand, who had booked on the ight
FrankfurtSoa on 16 April, was stranded due to the
cancellation of all ights following the volcano ash cloud
from Eyjafjallajkull. Anand asked for a three-day postponement, which the Bulgarian organisers refused on 19
April. Anand eventually reached Soa on 20 April, after
a 40-hour road journey.[35] Consequently, the rst game
was delayed by one day.[36]
The match consisted of 12 games. After 11 games the
score was tied at 55. Anand won game 12 on the
Black side of a Queens Gambit Declined to win the
match and retain the World Championship. In game 12,
after Topalovs dubious 31st and 32nd moves, Anand obtained a strong attack against Topalovs relatively exposed
king. Topalov subsequently resigned.

Anand convincingly defended the title against Kramnik

in the World Chess Championship 2008 held 1429 October in Bonn, Germany. The winner was to be the rst
to score 6 points in the twelve-game match.[30] Anand
won by scoring 6 points in 11 games, having won three
of the rst six games (two with the black pieces).[31] After
the tenth game, Anand led 64 and needed only a draw
in either of the last two games to win the match. In the
eleventh game, Kramnik played the Najdorf Variation of 3.2.5 World Champion 2012
the Sicilian Defense. Once the players traded queens,
Kramnik oered a draw after 24 moves since he had no Main article: World Chess Championship 2012
winning chances in the endgame.
AnandKramnik, 2008 World Ch.
Final position of the match

Anand (2783) Kramnik (2772), Wch

Bonn GER (11);[32] 29 October 2008 (nal
game)
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6
5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Qc7 8.Bxf6 gxf6
9.f5 Qc5 10.Qd3 Nc6 11.Nb3 Qe5 12.00-0 exf5 13.Qe3 Bg7 14.Rd5 Qe7 15.Qg3
Rg8 16.Qf4 fxe4 17.Nxe4 f5 18.Nxd6+ Kf8
19.Nxc8 Rxc8 20.Kb1 Qe1+ 21.Nc1 Ne7

As a result of Anands victory in the World Chess Championship 2010, he defended his title in the World Chess
Championship 2012; the location of the event was the
Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.[37] His opponent was Boris
Gelfand, the winner of the 2011 Candidates Matches.
After losing in the 7th game to Gelfand, Anand came
back to win the 8th game in only 17 moves the shortest game in World Chess Championship history. The
match was tied 66 after regular games with one win
each. Anand won the rapid tie break 21 to win the
match and retain his title. After the match, Russian president Vladimir Putin greeted Anand and Gelfand by calling both to his ocial residence.[38]

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3.2.6

3 CHESS CAREER
World Championship 2013

Main article: World Chess Championship 2013

Anand lost the defence of his title in the World Chess
Championship 2013 at Chennai. The winner was Magnus
Carlsen, the winner of the 2013 Candidates Tournament.
The rst four games were drawn, but Carlsen won the fth
and sixth games back to back. The seventh and eighth
games were drawn, while the ninth game was won by
Carlsen. On 22 November, the tenth game was drawn
making Carlsen the new world champion.[39]
3.2.7

World Championship 2014

Main article: World Chess Championship 2014

Anand won the double round-robin FIDE Candidates
tournament at Khanty-Mansiysk March 1330 and
earned a world championship rematch with Magnus
Carlsen. Anand went through the tournament undefeated,
winning his rst-round game against Levon Aronian, his
third-round game against Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, and
his ninth-round game against Veselin Topalov.[40] He
drew all his other games, including his twelfth-round
game against Dmitry Andreikin, where Anand agreed to
a draw in a complex, but winning position.[41] He faced
Carlsen in the world championship match in November,
in Sochi, Russia.[42] Carlsen won the match 6.5 to 4.5 after eleven of twelve scheduled games.

3.3

versus Svidler at the MTel Masters 2006.[46]

3.4 2013
In the 2013 Alekhine Memorial tournament, held from 20
April to 1 May, Anand nished third, with +21=6.[47]

3.5 Other results

Anand won three consecutive Advanced Chess tournaments in Leon, Spain, after Garry Kasparov introduced
this form of chess in 1998, and is widely recognised as
the worlds best Advanced Chess player, where humans
may consult a computer to aid in their calculation of variations.
His game collection, My Best Games of Chess, was published in the year 1998 and was updated in 2001.
Anands recent tournament successes include the Corus
chess tournament in 2006 (tied with Veselin Topalov),
Dortmund in 2004, and Linares in 2007 and 2008. He
has won the annual event Monaco Amber Blindfold and
Rapid Chess Championships in years 1994, 1997, 2003,
2005 and 2006. He is the only player to have won ve
titles of the Corus chess tournament. He is also the only
player to win the blind and rapid sections of the Amber
tournament in the same year (twice: in 1997 and 2005).
He is the rst player to have achieved victories in each
of the three big chess supertournaments: Corus (1989,
1998, 2003, 2004, 2006), Linares (1998, 2007, 2008),
Dortmund (1996, 2000, 2004).

FIDE World Rapid Chess Champion In 2007 he won the Grenkeleasing Rapid championship,
which he won for the tenth time defeating Armenian GM
2003
Levon Aronian.[48] Incidentally, just a few days before

In October 2003, the governing body of chess, FIDE,

organised a rapid time control tournament in Cap
d'Agde[43][44] and billed it as the World Rapid Chess
Championship. Each player had 25 minutes at the start
of the game, with an additional ten seconds after each
move. Anand won this event ahead of ten of the other
top twelve players in the world, beating Kramnik in the
nal. His main recent titles in this category are at: Corsica (six years in a row from 1999 through 2005), Chess
Classic (nine years in a row from 2000 through 2008),
Leon 2005, Eurotel 2002, Fujitsu Giants 2002 and the
Melody Amber (ve times, and he won the rapid portion
of Melody Amber seven times). In the Melody Amber
2007, Anand did not lose a single game in the rapid section, and scored 8/11, two more than the runners-up,
for a performance rating in the rapid section of 2939.[45]
In most tournament time control games that Anand plays,
he has more time left than his opponent at the end of the
game. He lost on time in one game, to Gata Kamsky.
Otherwise, he took advantage of the rule allowing players
in time trouble to use dashes instead of the move notation
during the last four minutes only once, in the game Anand

Aronian had defeated Anand in the Chess960 nal.[49]

In March 2007, Anand won the Linares chess tournament
and it was widely believed that he would be ranked world
No.1 in the FIDE Elo rating list for April 2007. However,
Anand was placed No.2 in the initial list released because
the Linares result was not included. FIDE subsequently
announced that the Linares results would be included after all,[50] making Anand number one in the April 2007
list.[51]
Anand won the Mainz 2008 Supertournament Championship by defeating rising star Magnus Carlsen, earning
his eleventh title in that event.[52]

3.6 Rating
In the April 2007 FIDE Elo rating list, Anand was ranked
rst in the world for the rst time,[53] and (as of July 2008)
he held the number one spot in all ratings lists but one
since then until July 2008, the exception being the January 2008 list, where he was rated No. 2 behind Vladimir
Kramnik (equal rating, but Kramnik held the No. 1 spot

5
due to more games played).[54] He dropped to No. 5 in
the October 2008 list, the rst time he had been outside
the top 3 since July 1996.[55]

Vladimir Kramnik +108=69

In 2010, Anand announced that he would expand his tournament schedule, beginning in late 2010, in an eort
to regain the world number one ranking from Magnus
Carlsen.[56][57] He achieved that goal on 1 November
2010 list with a rating of 2804, two points ahead of
Magnus Carlsen,[58] but was once again overtaken by
Carlsen in July 2011.

Nigel Short +75=11

Veselin Topalov +1613=37

Levon Aronian +49=21[64]

Hikaru Nakamura +14=10[65]

Fabiano Caruana +12=12[66]

Wang Hao +12=0[67]

Sergei Tiviakov +24=7[68]

Krishnan Sasikiran +01=0[69]

Assessment

Lubomir Kavalek describes Anand as the most versatile world champion ever, pointing out that Anand is the
only player to have won the world chess championship in
tournament, match, and knockout format, as well as rapid
time controls.[59]

Victor Korchnoi +80=3

6 Notable tournament successes

In an interview in 2011, Kramnik said about Anand: I

always considered him to be a colossal talent, one of the 6.1 Rapid/exhibition tournaments
greatest in the whole history of chess"; and I think that in
terms of play Anand is in no way weaker than Kasparov
1989 2nd Asian Active Chess Championship, Hong
but hes simply a little lazy, relaxed and only focuses on
Kong 1st
matches. In the last 56 years hes made a qualitative leap
1994 Melody Amber Tournament, Monaco 1st
thats made it possible to consider him one of the great
chess players.[60]
1994 PCA Grand Prix (Rapid), Moscow 1st
FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov commented that
1996 Credit Swiss Rapid Chess Grand Prix, Geneva
Anands victory in the 2014 Candidates Tournament
1st
"...proved that he is one of the strongest and greatest players of modern times.[61]
1996 Torneo Magistral de Ajedrez, Leon
In an interview in 2014 Alexander Grischuk said about
1997 Melody Amber Tournament, Monaco 1st
Anand: I have to say that of all the players Ive played
against Anand has personally struck me as the strongest,
1997 Chess Classic Rapid Tournament, Frankfurt
of course after Kasparov.[62]

Head-to-head record versus selected grandmasters

(Rapid, blitz and blindfold games not included; listed as

+wins losses =draws as of Jun 27, 2015.)[63]
Players who have been undisputed World Champions in boldface

Michael Adams +17-6=36

Magnus Carlsen +810=35

Boris Gelfand +86=40

Vassily Ivanchuk +137=49

Gata Kamsky +117=18

Anatoly Karpov +11-5=29

Garry Kasparov +416=31

1998 Torneo Magitral Communidad De Madrid,

Madrid 1st
1998 Siemens Nixdorf Duell (Rapid), Frankfurt 1st
1999 Wydra Memorial Chess (Rapid), Haifa 1st
1999 Torneo Magistral de Ajedrez, Leon beat Karpov 51
2000 Wydra International Tournament (Rapid),
Haifa 1st
2000 Torneo Magistral de Ajedrez, Leon beat Shirov 1
2000 Fujitsu Siemens Giants Chess (Rapid), Frankfurt 1st
2000 Corsica Masters (Rapid), Corsica 1st
2002 Eurotel (Combined Rapid plus Classical),
Prague 1st

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2011 Botvinnik Memorial, Moscow, 1st[70]
2011 Corsica Masters Knockout (Rapid), Corsica
1st[71]
2014 World Rapid Chess Championship (Rapid),
Dubai 3rd

AWARDS

2007 FIDE World Championship Tournament,

Mexico City 1st
2008 Linares Chess Tournament, Linares 1st
2010 Bilbao Chess Masters Final - Third Grand
Slam Masters Final, Bilbao 2nd
2010 London Chess Classic - London 2nd

6.2

Classical tournaments

1986 Arab-Asian International Chess Championship, Doha 1st

2011 Tata Steel Chess Tournament, Wijk aan Zee

2nd
2013 Grenke Chess Classic, Baden Baden 1st

1987 Sakthi Finance Grandmasters Chess Tournament, Coimbatore 1st

2013 Zurich Chess Challenge, Zurich 2nd

1989 51st Hoogovens Chess Tournament, Wijk aan

Zee 1st

2014 Bilbao Chess Masters Final (Grand Slam

Chess Final), Bilbao 1st

1990 Asian Zonal Tournament, Qatar

2014 London Chess Classic, London 1st

1990 Manchester Chess Festival, Manchester 1st

2015 Zurich Chess Challenge (classical section),

Zurich 1st

1990 Triveni Super Grandmasters Tournament,

Delhi Joint 1st
1992 Reggio Emilia Chess Tournament, Reggio
Emilia 1st
1992 Goodrich Open International Tournament,
Calcutta 1st
1992 Alekhine Memorial, Moscow 1st

2014 Candidates Tournament, Khanty Mansiysk 1st

2015 Shamkir Chess (Vugar Gashimov Memorial),

Shamkir 2nd
2015 Norway Chess (Grand Chess Tour), Stavanger
2nd

6.3 Matches

1993 PCA Interzonal, Groningen 1st

1991 World Chess Championship Candidates,

Madras, Brussels Quarter-nalist

1996 Dortmunder Schachtage, Dortmund (joint 1st

with Kramnik)

1992 Linares match Anand vs Vassily Ivanchuk 53

1997 Torneo de Ajedrex, Dos Hermanas 1st

1997 Invesbanka Chess tournament, Belgrade 1st
1997 Credit Suisse Classic Tournament, Biel 1st

1994-5 PCA World Championship Candidates Cycle, Linares, Las Palmas won
1997 Aegon Man vs Computers chess event (clock
simultan vs 6 programs) won 42

1998 60th Hoogovens Schaak Tornoi, Wijk aan Zee

1st

7 Awards

1998 Torneo International De Ajedrez, Linares 1st

Anand has received many national and international

awards.

1998 Fontys-Tilburg International Chess Tournament 1st

2003 65th Corus Chess Tournament, Wijk aan Zee
1st
2004 66th Corus Chess Tournament, Wijk aan Zee
1st
2006 68th Corus Chess Tournament, Wijk aan Zee
1st
2007 Linares Chess Tournament, Linares 1st

7.1 Indian national honours

Arjuna Award for Outstanding Indian Sportsman in
Chess in 1985.
Padma Shri Fourth highest civilian award awarded
by Government of India in 1987.
The inaugural Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, Indias highest sporting honour in the years 1991
1992.

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Padma Bhushan Third highest civilian award attack.
awarded by Government of India in 2000.
Padma Vibhushan Second highest civilian award On his way to winning the FIDE World Chess Championship in 2000, Anand, playing White, defeated
awarded by Government of India in 2007.
Grandmaster Viktor Bologan (analysis by GM ubomr
Ftnik):

7.2

Other honours

National Citizens Award and Soviet Land Nehru

Award in 1987
British Chess Federation Book of the Year Award
in 1998 for his book My Best Games of Chess.[72]
Anand has won the Chess Oscar in 1997, 1998,
2003, 2004, 2007 and 2008. The Chess Oscar is
awarded to the years best player according to a
worldwide poll of leading chess critics, writers, and
journalists conducted by the Russian chess magazine
64.[73]
Sportstar Millennium Award in 1998, from Indias
premier Sports magazine for being the sportperson
of the millennium.
Global Strategist Award for Mastering many
formats of World Chess Championships by
NASSCOM in 2011.[74]
Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa honoured
Anand with a cheque of Rs 2 crores, for winning the
World Chess Championship for the fth time.[75]
In 2012, he received the Indian sportsperson of the
year and Indian of the year awards.[76]
In 2014 Anand was awarded the Russian Order of
Friendship for the development of economic, scientic and cultural ties with Russia. The Order of
Friendship was awarded to Viswanathan Anand and
Boris Gelfand, the participants in the FIDE World
Chess Championship Match that was held at the
State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow in 2012.[77]
In 2015 Anand was honoured with the top country
award at the Spanish embassy, Delhi on January 8.It
is given to the eminent people of Indian origin who
helped to bring glory to both India and Spain.[78][79]
4538 Vishyanand (provisional designation 1988 TP)
is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by
Kenzo Suzuki in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, Japan,
on October 10, 1988.[80] [81][82]

Sample game

AnandBologan, 2000 World Ch.

Position after 36...c3. Anand, in an apparently worse
position, nds an intuitive sacrice that leads to a winning

AnandBologan, New Delhi, 2000 World

Championship;[83] Ruy Lopez, Breyer (ECO
C95)
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6
5. 0-0 Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. c3 0-0 9.
h3 Nb8 10. d4 Nbd7 11. Nbd2 Bb7 12. Bc2
Re8 13. Nf1 Bf8 14. Ng3 c5 15. d5 c4 16.
Bg5 Qc7 17. Nf5 Kh8 18. g4 Ng8 19. Qd2
Nc5 20. Be3 Bc8 21. Ng3 Rb8 22. Kg2 a5
23. a3 Ne7 24. Rh1 Ng6 25. g5! b4!?
Anand has a strong kingside attack,
so Bologan seeks counterplay with
the sacrice of a pawn.
26. axb4 axb4 27. cxb4 Na6 28. Ra4 Nf4+
29. Bxf4 exf4 30. Nh5 Qb6 31. Qxf4 Nxb4
32. Bb1 Rb7 33. Ra3 Rc7 34. Rd1 Na6
35. Nd4 Qxb2 36. Rg3 c3 (see diagram) 37.
Nf6!! Re5
If 37...gxf6, 38.gxf6 h6 39.Rg1!
Qd2! 40.Qh4 leaves White with an
irresistible initiative.
38. g6! fxg6 39. Nd7 Be7 40. Nxe5 dxe5 41.
Qf7 h6 42. Qe8+ 10
White forces mate in 12 moves if
the game were to continue, with
42...Bf8 43.Rf3 Qa3 44.Rxf8+
Qxf8 45.Qxf8+ Kh7 46.d6 exd4
47.Ba2 h5 48.dxc7 Nb4 49.Qg8+
Kh6 50.f4 g5 51.f5 g4 52.h4 Bxf5
53.exf5 Nxa2 54.Qh8#

9 See also
List of chess games between Anand and Kramnik

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[62] Candidates, Rd 9: Dream day for Anand. 23 May 2014.

[63] chess games. chessgames.com. 2012-01-01. Retrieved
2014-02-05.
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anand+vs+aronian. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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anand+vs+nakamura. Missing or empty |title= (help)
[66] http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ezsearch.pl?search=
anand+vs+caruana. Missing or empty |title= (help)
[67] http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ezsearch.pl?search=
anand+vs+wang+hao. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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anand+vs+tiviakov. Missing or empty |title= (help)
[69] http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ezsearch.pl?search=
anand+vs+sasikiran. Missing or empty |title= (help)

Viswanathan Anand, My Best Games of Chess

(Gambit, 2001 (new edition))
Edward Winters Books about Leading Modern
Chessplayers (Chess Notes Feature Article)

12 External links
Viswanathan Anand player prole and games at
Chessgames.com
Viswanathan Anand on Twitter (Chessbase article
on Anands Twitter account)
Anand wins World Championship 2010
Viswanathan Anand games at 365Chess.com

[70] Anand & Cmilyte winners Botvinnik Memorial rapid.

ChessVibes. Retrieved on 31 May 2012.

Interview with Viswanathan Anand at LatestChess.com year 2007

[71] Anand wins Corsica Masters Knockout. ChessVibes. Retrieved on 31 May 2012.

TIME: History of Chess, by Viswanathan Anand

[72] Chess Articles. Chess.com. Retrieved on 31 May 2012.

Startup Lessons from Viswanathan Anand

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27 July 2011.

Interview with CNN IBN, May 2008

Interview at ChessBase
Vishy Anand on lessons to board room from the
board Economic Times

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India Swoons Over Its Chess Champ, and Even the
Game New York Times 9 August 2010
Viswanathan Anands Interview in Dec 2011 before
London Chess Classic

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