Viswanathan anand brief biography of mahatma

India has provided legends in every sport including Cricket, Hockey, Wrestling and Chess, etc. If we talk about Chess then the first name that comes in our mind is ‘Vishwanathan Anand’. Vishwanathan Anand is called the ‘Chess Wizard’ because of his extraordinary skill in Chess. Anand got his interest in Chess at a very early age and he says that his profound skill in this sport is only because of the initial guidance of his mother. Anand has made India proud on the International platform.

Ten Lines on Vishwanathan Anand

Set 1

1) Vishwanathan Anand is a famous Indian Chess Player and winner of the World Chess Championship.

2) He was born in the Tamilnadu state of India on 11 December

3) His father Krishnamurthy Vishwanathan was the General Manager in Southern Railway and mother Sushila was a homemaker.

4) Anand went to Don Bosco Higher Secondary School for schooling and completed from Loyola College in Chennai.

5) Anand won the National Sub-junior Championship in with a score of 9/9.

6) After winning the Asian Junior Championship in , he became the youngest International Master.

7) He was the first Indian to be the World Junior Chess Champion in

8) After winning ‘Shakti Finance International chess tournament’ in Coimbatore, he became the first Grandmaster of India

9) Vishwanathan Anand married to Aruna Anand in July

10) Anand has been awarded Arjun Award (), Padma Shri () and Padma Vibhushan (), etc.

We have provided below the additional set of 10 lines on Vishwanathan Anand.  Each point of the set is written in a very simple language to make it easy to comprehend and can be helpful for the readers in their exams, quizzes, paragraphs, articles, and essay, etc. The facts provided below are taken from various resources of information and will help you in delivering a speech on the subject. Now let’s have look on the set.

Set 2

1) Vishwanathan Anand became the first Grandmaster of India in

2) Anand is the 4 player in the worl

On aggression in sports

VA: There are chess players who thrive under aggression. Famously, someone like Viktor Korchnoi would have an argument before every game but he would play better. Whenever I had a minor disagreement with someone, it would bug me a little. So, you know, we are just cut from different cloth.

On the popularity of chess in India

VA: When I became a grandmaster, when I started competing for the world title, when I started to appear in the sports pages, these had an effect. There’s a generation who was following it intensely and a certain percentage of them were even motivated to try playing. In school tournaments, even open tournaments, the numbers shot up. Then the number of grandmasters started increasing. So the ecosystem has taken a long time building. But then, recently, there was a boom set off by two things. People were stuck at home during the pandemic and they had phones on which you could play chess. And on Netflix, which you could watch on your phone, there was the series, The Queen’s Gambit. It had an audience of 70, 80 million globally. But if the pandemic had happened 10 years ago, our bandwidth wouldn’t have been good enough. This was a very good timing for chess, in a sense.

On why the Soviet domination gave way

VA: The Soviets dominated in a much earlier era, roughly the s till the s. They used to field the Soviet Union versus the Rest of the World teams, and were actually able to compete against the rest of the world. But a couple of things happened. First of all, Russia is not the Soviet Union, so it’s a fraction. And then&#; computers came along and made all the training advantages that the Soviets had built up kind of irrelevant very fast.

In , when the country broke down, a lot of Soviet, Russian and

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