Chandigarh: Viswanathan Anand may have successfully defended his title, but the five-time world chess champion feels that weeks of intense training and hard work comes to nothing as it boils down to few last critical moments and grabbing the opportunity. "It's about the critical moments and these usually come down to few minutes or even few seconds apart from the one game. If you don't grab that opportunity when it...
05:35 PM, Jul 17, 2012
Viswanathan Anand, the Indian ace, won his fifth World Chess Championship title beating Israel's Boris Gelfand in Moscow on Wednesday. Viswanathan Anand bio Born: 11 December 1969 Title: Grandmaster (1998) World Champion: 2000-02, 2007 " present (Undisputed) FIDE Rating: 2971 (May 2012) 4th Highest rated Chess Player One of six players in history to break the 2800 mark Anand became India's first grandmaster in 1987 He was also the first...
03:54 PM, May 31, 2012
CNN-IBN traces Viswanthan Anand's journey to the pinnacle of chess following his fifth World Championship title on Wednesday. ...
11:15 AM, May 31, 2012
Viswanathan Anand was relieved to have come out on top against Boris Gelfand in the Rapid chess tiebreaker on Wednesday to win the World Championship for the fifth time. ...
10:52 AM, May 31, 2012
Former Grandmaster Pravin Thipsay backs Vishwanathan Anand to beat Boris Gelfand in the Rapid chess tiebreaker of the World Championship in Moscow on Wednesday. ...
11:14 AM, May 30, 2012
Moscow: Defending champion Viswanathan Anand will have to fight it out in Rapid chess tiebreaker against challenger Boris Gelfand after a tied 6-6 result in the World Chess Championship match here Wednesday. To start with, there will be four games under rapid chess rules with 25 minutes to each player and a ten seconds increment after every move is made. In case of a 2-2 result, the two will play...
02:34 PM, May 29, 2012
Moscow: Defending champion Viswanathan Anand will have a lot to think about ahead of the last game of the Chess World Championship against Boris Gelfand of Israel here. With the scores tied 5.5-5.5 after 11 games, the Indian ace will be hoping for an encore of the last championship when he won the last game to win the title against Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria. That said, Gelfand has proven to...
12:03 PM, May 27, 2012
Moscow: Defending champion Viswanathan Anand was stretched a little by challenger Boris Gelfand of Israel but the Indian ace found his way to a draw in the ninth game of the World Chess Championship here on Wednesday. Ananad managed to sign peace following a timely queen sacrifice leaving the scores level at 4.5-4.5 after the ninth round. As expected, Anand decided to shift gears with black and for the first...
10:39 PM, May 23, 2012
Moscow: Having bounced back with an emphatic victory in the previous round, Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand holds a huge psychological advantage in the crucial remaining four games of the World Championship match against Israeli Boris Gelfand here. With points levelled at 4-4 and with four games to go, the championship match is interestingly poised. The eighth game provided the Indian ace a much needed breather after a shocking loss in...
05:07 PM, May 22, 2012
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