Viswanathan Anand , known as “Vishy Anand” (born the December 11th 1969 with Chennai, India), is a Indian player of failures. Considered for its speed of reflection, he becomes world champion FIDE in 2000. He loses his title in 2002. He becomes the 15th world champion of the failures (unified title) of the history the September 29th 2007.

Career with the failures

The rise of Anand in the Indian world of the failures was meteoric. National success came early for him when it gains the championship of failures national under-junior with a score of 9/9 in 1983 at the 14 years age. He becomes the youngest Indian to gain the title of international Maître at the 15 years age in 1984. At 16 years, he becomes the national champion and gains this title thereafter twice moreover. He plays of the parts at rate much faster than the average, from where its nickname “the blitz kid”, the kid flash, “failures fast” being known in India and elsewhere under the German term of “blitz”. In 1987, he becomes the first Indian to gain the championship of the world of failures junior. At 18 years, it is the first international Large-Master of India.

“Vishy”, as it is sometimes called, climbs the levels of the scene échiquéenne at the beginning of the Années 1990, gaining prestigious tournaments like Reggio Emilia 1991 (in front of Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov, which are then at the top of their form). To play on such level does not slow down it, and it continues to play in blitz.

Anand is qualified for the championship of the traditional world of failures by gaining the matches of candidates against Michael Adams and Gata Kamsky. In 1995, it plays the final against Kasparov with the World Trade Center of New York. After a succession of eight null parts (a record for the opening of a match of championship of the world), Anand gains the ninth part, but then loses four parts of the five following ones. It loses the match on the score of 10,5-7,5.

Anand plays of many tournaments “Advanced Chess” after Garry Kasparov had introduced this form of play in 1998 (the players make use of a program of failures carried out on a computer to help them in their reflection). It gains three consecutive tournaments of “Advanced Chess” to León, Spain, and is largely recognized like the best player of advanced failures of the world.

In 2006, it gains the Chess tournament Corus (Wijk year Zee) to equality with Topalov with a performance of 9/13, and on April 1st, benefitting from its victory to the tournament of Morelia-Linarès in March 2007, it crosses for the first time the bar of: 2800 with the Classification Elo with: 2803 points.

It is currently (October 2007) the world number one in front of Vasily Ivanchuk, Vladimir Kramnik and Veselin Topalov with: 2801 points.

World champion of failures

Anand gains finally the championship of world FIDE 2000 after having beaten Alexei Shirov 3,5 - 0,5 with Teheran, becoming thus the first Indian to gain this title.

With the championship of world FIDE 2005, it is dominated by Veselin Topalov and finishes 2nd ex æquo with the Russian Peter Svidler.

In 2007, at the time of the championship of the world of failures to Mexico City, he becomes the 15th world champion of the failures (in the place of Vladimir Kramnik) in a tournament joining together 8 of the best players of the world. He gains this tournament with 9 points out of 14 (without any defeat). He will have to face his dolphin Vladimir Kramnik, at the time of a match in 2008 to confirm his title.

World champion of fast failures

In October 2003, the FIDE organizes a tournament of fast parts to the Cape of Agde, which it entitles “Championship of the world of fast parts”. Each player has a time of 25 minutes reflection plus 10 seconds an additional time per blow. By beating Vladimir Kramnik finally, Anand gains this one in front of eleven of the twelve best players of the world (only Kasparov was absent).

A part

(Viswanathan Anand - Joel Lautier, Biel, 1997)

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Dxd5 3.Cc3 Da5 4.d4 Cf6 5.Cf3 c6 6.Fc4 Ff5 7.Ce5 e6 8.g4 Fg6 9.h4 Cbd7 10.Cxd7 Cxd7 11.h5 Fe4 12.Th3 Fg2 13.Te3 Cb6 14.Fd3 Cd5 15.f3 Fb4 16.Rf2 Fxc3 17.bxc3 Dxc3 18.Tb1 Dxd4 19.Txb7 Td8 20.h6 gxh6 21.Fg6! Ce7 (DxD. 22 Txe6+ followed by chechmate) 22.Dxd4 Txd4 23.Td3 Td8 24.Txd8+ Rxd8 25.Fd3 1-0 (Fg2 is condemned).

Books

• Viswanathan Anand, C89 - Attack Marshall , Chess Informing, 1993

External bonds

• All Anand Ranges

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