Years Covered: 1984 to 2012!
Overall Record: +619 -190 =880 (62.7%)*!
World Junior Champion 1988!
Became A Grand Master In 1988!
Present Rating 2791 (1 May 2012)!
Peak Rating 2817 (March 2011)!
FIDE World Chess Champion From 2000 To 2002!
The Undisputed World Chess Champion From 2007 Onwards!
Won the Chess Oscar in 1997, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2007 and 2008!
Anand is the only player to have won the super tournament at Wijk aan Zee (Corus from 1989-2010) five times. He is the first player to have achieved victories in each of the three big chess super tournaments: Corus/Wijk aan Zee (1989, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2006), Linares (1998, 2007, 2008), Dortmund (1996, 2000, 2004).
The Chess Classic at Mainz, essentially the annual open world rapid championship, that had commenced in 1994 and finished up in 2010 had become Anand’s personal property as he won it 11 times out of the 17 times it had been staged, including nine consecutive wins from 2000 through to 2008. In addition, he has won the annual overall Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess Championships in 1994, 1997, 2003, 2005 and 2006, the Amber Rapid 7 times, and he was the only player to win the blind and rapid sections of the Amber tournament in the same year (twice: in 1997 and 2005). Other significant sequences were the six consecutive wins at Corsica from 1999 through 2005, and seven wins at Leon in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, Ciudad de Leon XVIII (2005), XIX Ciudad de Leon (2006), and 2007.
ANAND IS THE ONLY PLAYER to have won the World Chess Championships in many formats including Knockout, Tournament, Match, Rapid and Blitz!
His head-to-head record in classical games against Boris Gelfand is +9 -6 =27!
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Viswanathan Anand, (Born 11 December 1969) is a Genius Indian Chess Grandmaster and the Reigning World Chess Champion!
Anand’s first serious impact in Indian chess was as a 14 year old, winning the 1983-84 National Sub Junior Championship, with a perfect score of 9/9 points! From 1983 until 1986, he was the National Junior (under 19) Champion and in 1984 and again in 1985 he won Lloyd’s Bank Junior championship. Also in 1984 and again in 1985, Anand won the Asian Junior (under 19) Championships, the youngest to achieve this distinction. Anand capped his junior career by winning the 1987 World Junior Chess Championship. He won the Indian National Championships in 1986, 1987 and 1988.
In 2000, he beat Alexei Shirov 3½–½ in the final match held at Tehran to become the FIDE World Chess Champion, after defeating Viktor Bologan, Smbat Gariginovich Lputian, Bartlomiej Macieja, Khalifman, and Adams in the preliminary rounds; he held the FIDE World Chess Championship from 2000 to 2002, at a time when the world title was split. He failed to defend the title in 2002, losing in the semifinals to Ivanchuk after defeating Olivier Touzane, Peter Heine Nielsen, Vladislav Tkachiev, Dreev, and Shirov in the earlier rounds.
He became the undisputed World Champion in 2007 in the double round-robin FIDE World Championship Tournament in Mexico City, which he won with a score of 9/14 points, a full point ahead of joint second place finishers, Vladimir Kramnik and Boris Gelfand, thereby succeeding Kramnik as the title holder of the Unified World Chess Championship. In Bonn, Germany, in October 2008, he successfully defended his title when he won the twelve-game Anand-Kramnik World Championship Match by 6.5-4.5 (+3 -1 =7). In 2010, he successfully went on to defend his title in the Anand-Topalov World Chess Championship by 6.5-5.5 after winning the breath taking 12th and final classical game! As the Reigning World Chess Champion, he is going to face the winner of the Kazan Candidates Tournament Boris Gelfand for the World Chess Championship 2012.
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. Anand officially regained the world number one ranking on November 1, 2010, after having defeated the reigning world #1 Magnus Carlsen in the Bilbao Masters.
Anand became India's first grandmaster in 1987. He was also 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.
Anand has been described by Lubomir Kavalek as the most versatile world champion ever, since Anand is the only player to have won the world chess championships in many formats including Knockout, Tournament, Match, Rapid and Blitz.
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