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VISHWANATHAN ANAND
India's First Chess
Grandmaster
Rajiv Khel Ratna (1991-92) & Padma Vibhushan (2007)
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Date & Place of Birth:
- December 11, 1969 – Tamil Nadu, India.
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Introduction:
- He is an Indian chess Grandmaster and the
former World Chess Champion.
History & Achievements
- He has won the World Chess Championship five
times and has been the undisputed World Champion since 2007. He was
the FIDE World Rapid Chess Champion in 2003, and is widely
considered the strongest rapid player of his generation.
- Anand became India's first grandmaster in
1987.
- Anand has won the Chess Oscar six times (1997,
1998, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008).
- He became the undisputed World Champion in
2007 and defended his title against Vladimir Kramnik in 2008.
- He then successfully defended his title in the
World Chess Championship 2010 against Veselin Topalov and in the
World Chess Championship 2012 against Boris Gelfand.
- Anand is one of six players in history to
break the 2800 mark on the FIDE rating list, and in April 2007 at
the age of 37, he became the world number one for the first time. He
was at the top of the world rankings five out of six times, from
April 2007 to July 2008, holding the number-one ranking for a total
of 15 months.
- In October 2008, he dropped out of the world
top three ranking for the first time since July 1996. He regained
the world number one ranking in 1 November 2010, having defeated the
reigning world No. 1 Magnus Carlsen in the Bilbao Masters, but had
to concede the top spot back to Carlsen in July 2011.
Accolades, Awards, Honours and Recognitions
- He was the first recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi
Khel Ratna Award in 1991–92, India's highest sporting honour.
- In 2007, he was awarded India's second highest
civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan, making him the first
sportsperson to receive the award in Indian history.
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