The pride of India, the greatest player of chess, Vishwanathan Anand was born on 11 December, 1969 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. His father Mr. Vishwanathan, retired as General Manager, Southern Railways and his mother Mrs. Susheela Vishwanathan was a housewife and chess afficionado. Anand’s mother taught him to play chess. He described his start in chess in a conversation with Susan polgar.
Anand holds a degree in Commerce and his hobbies are reading, swimming and listening to music, Nowadays, he lives in Collado Mediano in Spain with his wife Aruna Vishwanathan.
Anand is one of the four players in the history to break the 2800 mark on the FIDE rating list. After several near misses, Anand won the FIDE world chess championship in 2000 for the first time after defeating Alexei Shirove in the final match held at Tehran. He lost the title when Ruslan Ponomariov won the FIDE Knockout tournament in 2002.
He tied for second with peter Svidler in the FIDE world chess championship 2005 with 8.5 points out of 14 games, 1.5 points behind the winner Veselin Topalov.
In September 2007 Anand became world champion again by winning that year FIDE world Championship Tournament held in Mexico City. He won the double round-robin tournament with a final score of 9 out of 14 points, a full point ahead of joint second place finishers Vladimir Kramnik and Boris Gelfand.
Anand successfully defended the title against Kramnik in the world Championship 2008, a twelve game match held in Bonn, Germany, between 14 and October 29, with Anand scoring 6.5 out of 11 games. Before the final game Anand led 6–4 and needed only a draw in one of the two remaining games to win the match. In the last game, Kramnik played the Najdrof Variation of the Sicilian Defence. Once the players traded queens, Kramnik offered a draw after 24 moves since he had no winning chances in the end game.
With this win, he became the fist player in chess history to have won the world Championship in three different formats; Knockout, Tournament, and match. He will next defend his title in the world chess Championship 2009 against the winner of the challenger match between veselin Topalov and Gata Kamsky.
Anand gives the credit of his success to his regular practice, and the efforts and co-operation of his family, specially his mother, who was his first teacher of chess. We feel ourselves honoured that we have the greatest chess champion, born in India. He is the pride of the nation.
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