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3.3 FIDE World Rapid Chess Champion20033.4 20133.5 Other results3.6 Rating

4 Assessment5 Head-to-head record versus selectedgrandmasters

6 Notable tournament successes6.1 Rapid/exhibition tournaments6.2 Classical tournaments6.3 Matches

7 Awards7.1 Indian national honours7.2 Other honours

8 Sample game9 See also10 References11 Further reading

12 External links

Early life

Viswanathan Anand was born on 11 December 1969 at Mayiladuthurai, Tamil Nadu .[8][9] Shortly

thereafter, his family moved to Madras (now Chennai), where he grew up.[2] His father, Viswanathan Iyer

is a retired General Manager of Southern Railways, had studied in Jamalpur Bihar, and his mother Susheel

was a housewife and chess/film/club aficionado and an influential socialite.

Anand is the youngest of 3 children. He is 11 years younger than his sister and 13 years younger than his

brother. His elder brother, Shivakumar is a manager at Crompton Greaves in India and his elder sister,

Anuradha, is a professor in the United States at the University of Michigan. [10][11]

Anand learnt chess from age six from his mother and a close family friend named Deepa Ramakrishnan. [12

Anand was educated at Don Bosco Matriculation Higher Secondary School,[13] Egmore, Chennai and hold

a degree of Bachelor of Commerce from Loyola College, Chennai.[14]

Personal life

In August 2010, Anand joined the board of directors of Olympic Gold Quest, a foundation for promoting

and supporting India's elite sportspersons and potential young talent.[15][16][17] On 24 December 2010

Anand was guest of honour on the grounds of Gujarat University, where 20,486 players created a new

world record of simultaneous chess play at single venue.[18]

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His hobbies are reading, swimming, and listening to music. He is married to Aruna Anand and has a son

born on 9 April 2011.[19]

Anand has been regarded as an unassuming person with a reputation for refraining from political and

psychological ploys and instead focusing on his game.[20] This has made him a well-liked figure throughou

the chess world for two decades, evidenced by the fact that Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, and

Magnus Carlsen, of whom the former two were rivals for the World Championship throughout Anand's

career, each aided him in preparing for the World Chess Championship 2010.[21][22]

Anand is sometimesknown as the "Tiger of Madras".[23]

Anand was the only sportsperson to have been invited for the dinner hosted by the Indian PM Manmohan

Singh for US President Barack Obama on 7 November 2010.[24]

Anand was denied an honorary doctorate from University of Hyderabad because of confusion over his

citizenship status; however, later Kapil Sibal, India's Minister of Human Resource Development apologise

and said "There is no issue on the matter as Anand has agreed to accept the degree at a convenient time

depending on his availability".[25] According to The Hindu, Anand finally declined to accept the

doctorate.[26]

Chess career

Early career

Anand's rise in the Indian chess world was meteoric. National level success came early for him when he

won the National Sub-Junior Chess Championship with a score of 9/9 in 1983 at the age of fourteen. He

became the youngest Indian to win the title of International Master at the age of fifteen, in 1984. At the ag

of sixteen he became the national chess champion and won that title two more times. He played games at blitz speed. In 1987, he became the first Indian to win the World Junior Chess Championship. In 1988, at

the age of eighteen, he became India's first Grandmaster by winning the Shakti Finance International chess

tournament held in Coimbatore, India. He was awarded Padma Shri at the age of 18.

In the World Chess Championship 1993 cycle Anand qualified for his first Candidates Tournament,

winning his first match but narrowly losing his quarter-final match to Anatoly Karpov.[27]

In 1994–95 Anand and Gata Kamsky dominated the qualifying cycles for the rival FIDE and PCA world

championships. In the FIDE cycle (FIDE World Chess Championship 1996), Anand lost his quarter-final

match to Kamsky after leading early.[28] Kamsky went on to lose the 1996 FIDE championship matchagainst Karpov.

In the 1995 PCA cycle, Anand won matches against Oleg Romanishin and Michael Adams without a loss,

then avenged his FIDE loss by defeating Gata Kamsky in the Candidates final. [29] In 1995, he played the

PCA World Chess Championship 1995 against Kasparov in New York City's World Trade Center. After a

opening run of eight draws (a record for the opening of a world championship match), Anand won game

nine with a powerful exchange sacrifice, but then lost four of the next five. He lost the match 10½–7½.

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Anand at the Manila 1992 Olympiad,

age 22

In the 1998 FIDE cycle, the reigning champion Karpov was granted direct seeding by FIDE into the final

against the winner of the seven-round single elimination Candidates tournament. The psychological and

physical advantage gained by Karpov from this decision caused significant controversy, leading to the

withdrawal of future World Champion Vladimir Kramnik from the candidates tournament. Anand won the

candidates tournament, defeating Michael Adams in the final, and immediately faced a well-rested Karpov

for the championship. Despite this tremendous disadvantage for Anand, which he described as being

"brought in a coffin" to play Karpov,[20] the regular match ended 3–3, which led to a rapid playoff, which

Karpov won 2–0. Karpov thus remained the FIDE champion.

World Chess championships

FIDE World Champion 2000

Main article: FIDE World Chess Championship 2000

After several near misses, Anand won the FIDE World Chess Championship in 2000 for the first time after

defeating Alexei Shirov 3½–0½ in the final match held at Tehran, thereby becoming the first Indian to win

that title.

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Anand in 2007

He failed to defend the title in 2002, losing in the semifinals to Vassily Ivanchuk. The 2002 FIDE world

championship was ultimately won by Ruslan Ponomariov. Anand tied for second with Peter Svidler in the

FIDE World Chess Championship 2005 with 8½ points out of 14 games, 1½ points behind the winner,

Veselin Topalov.

World Champion 2007

Main article: World Chess Championship 2007

In September 2007 Anand became World Champion again by

winning that year's 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.

In 2000, when Anand won the FIDE World Championship, there

was also the rival "Classical" World Championship, held by

Kramnik. By 2007, the world championship had been reunified, so

Anand's victory in Mexico City made him undisputed World ChessChampion. He became the first undisputed champion to win the title

in a tournament, rather than in matchplay, since Mikhail Botvinnik

in 1948.

In October 2007, Anand said he liked the double round robin

championship format (as used in the 2007 championship in Mexico

City), and that the right of Kramnik to automatically challenge for

the title was "ridiculous".[30]

World Champion 2008

Main article: World Chess Championship 2008

Anand convincingly defended the title against Kramnik in the World Chess Championship 2008 held 14–2

October in Bonn, Germany. The winner was to be the first to score 6½ points in the twelve-game match. [3

Anand won by scoring 6½ points in 11 games, having won three of the first six games (two with the black

pieces).[32] After the tenth game, Anand led 6–4 and needed only a draw in either of the last two games to

win the match. In the eleventh game, Kramnik played the Najdorf Variation of the Sicilian Defense. Once

the players traded queens, Kramnik offered a draw after 24 moves since he had no winning chances in the

endgame.

Anand (2783) – Kramnik (2772), Wch Bonn GER (11);[33] 29 October 2008 (final game)

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Qc7 8.Bxf6 gxf6 9.f5 Qc5

10.Qd3 Nc6 11.Nb3 Qe5 12.0-0-0 exf5 13.Qe3 Bg7 14.Rd5 Qe7 15.Qg3 Rg8 16.Qf4 fxe4

17.Nxe4 f5 18.Nxd6+ Kf8 19.Nxc8 Rxc8 20.Kb1 Qe1+ 21.Nc1 Ne7 22.Qd2 Qxd2 23.Rxd2

Bh6 24.Rf2 Be3 ½–½

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Anand–Kramnik, 2008 World Ch.

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Final position of the match

Responding to Anand's win, Garry Kasparov said "A great result

for Anand and for chess. Vishy deserved the win in every way

and I'm very happy for him. It will not be easy for the younger

generation to push him aside... Anand out-prepared Kramnik

completely. In this way it reminded me of my match with

Kramnik in London 2000. Like I was then, Kramnik may have

been very well prepared for this match, but we never saw it."[34]

In 2010 Anand donated his gold medal to the charitableorganisation "The Foundation" to be auctioned off for the

benefit of underprivileged children.[35]

World Champion 2010

Main article: World Chess Championship 2010

Before the World Chess Championship 2010 match with Veselin

Topalov, Anand, who had booked on the flight Frankfurt–Sofia

on 16 April, was stranded due to the cancellation of all flights following the volcano ash cloud fromEyjafjallajökull. Anand asked for a three-day postponement, which the Bulgarian organisers refused on 19

April. Anand eventually reached Sofia on 20 April, after a 40-hour road journey.[36] Consequently, the firs

game was delayed by one day.[37]

The match consisted of 12 games. After 11 games the score was tied at 5½–5½. Anand won game 12 on th

Black side of a Queen's Gambit Declined to win the match and retain the World Championship. In game 12

after Topalov's dubious 31st and 32nd moves, Anand obtained a strong attack against Topalov's relatively

exposed king. Topalov subsequently resigned.

World Champion 2012

Main article: World Chess Championship 2012

As a result of Anand's victory in the World Chess Championship 2010, he defended his title in the World

Chess Championship 2012; the location of the event was the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.[38] His

opponent was Boris Gelfand, the winner of the 2011 Candidates Matches. After losing in the 7th game to

Gelfand, Anand came back to win the 8th game in only 17 moves – the shortest game in World Chess

Championship history. The match was tied 6–6 after regular games with one win each. Anand won the

rapid tie break 2½–1½ to win the match and retain his title. After the match, Russian president Vladimir

Putin greeted Anand and Gelfand by calling both to his official residence.[39]

World Championship 2013

Main article: World Chess Championship 2013

Anand lost the defence of his title in the World Chess Championship 2013 at Chennai. The winner was

Magnus Carlsen, the winner of the 2013 Candidates Tournament. The first four games were drawn, but

Carlsen won the fifth and sixth games back to back. The seventh and eighth games were drawn, while the

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to have won five titles of the Corus chess tournament. He is also the only player to win the blind and rapid

sections of the Amber tournament in the same year (twice: in 1997 and 2005). He is the first player to have

achieved victories in each of the three big chess supertournaments: Corus (1989, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2006),

Linares (1998, 2007, 2008), Dortmund (1996, 2000, 2004).

In 2007 he won the Grenkeleasing Rapid championship, which he won for the tenth time defeating

Armenian GM Levon Aronian.[49] Incidentally, just a few days before Aronian had defeated Anand in the

Chess960 final.[50]

In March 2007, Anand won the Linares chess tournament and it was widely believed that he would be

ranked world No.1 in the FIDE Elo rating list for April 2007. However, Anand was placed No.2 in the

initial list released because the Linares result was not included. FIDE subsequently announced that the

Linares results would be included after all,[51] making Anand number one in the April 2007 list.[52]

Anand won the Mainz 2008 Supertournament Championship by defeating rising star Magnus Carlsen,

earning his eleventh title in that event.[53]

Rating

In the April 2007 FIDE Elo rating list, Anand was ranked first in the world for the first time,[54] and (as of

July 2008) he held the number one spot in all ratings lists but one since then until July 2008, the exception

being the January 2008 list, where he was rated No. 2 behind Vladimir Kramnik (equal rating, but Kramni

held the No. 1 spot due to more games played).[55] He dropped to No. 5 in the October 2008 list, the first

time he had been outside the top 3 since July 1996.[56]

In 2010, Anand announced that he would expand his tournament schedule, beginning in late 2010, in an

effort to regain the world number one ranking from Magnus Carlsen.[57][58] He achieved that goal on 1

November 2010 list with a rating of 2804, two points ahead of Magnus Carlsen,[59] but was once again

overtaken by Carlsen in July 2011.

Assessment

Lubomir Kavalek describes Anand as the most versatile world champion ever, pointing out that Anand is

the only player to have won the world chess championship in tournament, match, and knockout format, as

well as rapid time controls.[60]

In an interview in 2011, Kramnik said about Anand: "I always considered him to be a colossal talent, one othe greatest in the whole history of chess"; and "I think that in terms of play Anand is in no way weaker

than Kasparov but he's simply a little lazy, relaxed and only focuses on matches. In the last 5–6 years he's

made a qualitative leap that's made it possible to consider him one of the great chess players."[61]

FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov commented that Anand's victory in the 2014 Candidates Tournament

"...proved that he is one of the strongest and greatest players of modern times." [62]

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1989 2nd Asian Active Chess Championship,Hong Kong 1st1994 Melody Amber Tournament, Monaco 1st1994 PCA Grand Prix (Rapid), Moscow 1st1996 Credit Swiss Rapid Chess Grand Prix,

Geneva 1st1996 Torneo Magistral de Ajedrez, Leon1997 Melody Amber Tournament, Monaco 1st1997 Chess Classic Rapid Tournament,Frankfurt1998 Torneo Magitral Communidad DeMadrid, Madrid 1st1998 Siemens Nixdorf Duell (Rapid), Frankfurt1st1999 Wydra Memorial Chess (Rapid), Haifa1st

2000 Wydra International Tournament (RapidHaifa 1st2000 Torneo Magistral de Ajedrez, Leon beatShirov 1½–½2000 Fujitsu Siemens Giants Chess (Rapid),

Frankfurt 1st2000 Corsica Masters (Rapid), Corsica 1st2002 Eurotel (Combined Rapid plus ClassicalPrague 1st

2011 Botvinnik Memorial, Moscow, 1st[71]

2011 Corsica Masters Knockout (Rapid),

Corsica 1st[72]

2014 World Rapid Chess Championship(Rapid), Dubai 3rd

In an interview in 2014 Alexander Grischuk said about Anand: "I have to say that of all the players I’ve

played against Anand has personally struck me as the strongest, of course after Kasparov."[63]

Head-to-head record versus selected grandmasters

(Rapid, blitz and blindfold games not included; listed as +wins −losses =draws as of Jun 27, 2015.) [64]

Players who have been undisputed World Champions in boldface

Michael Adams +17-6=36 Magnus Carlsen +8−10=35

Boris Gelfand +8−6=40

Vassily Ivanchuk +13−7=49

Gata Kamsky +11−7=18 Anatoly Karpov +11-5=29

Garry Kasparov +4−16=31

Victor Korchnoi +8−0=3

Vladimir Kramnik +10−8=69

Nigel Short +7−5=11 Veselin Topalov +16−13=37

Levon Aronian +4−9=21[65]

Hikaru Nakamura +1−5=10[66]

Fabiano Caruana +1−2=12[67]

Wang Hao +1−2=0[68]

Sergei Tiviakov +2−4=7[69]

Krishnan Sasikiran +0−1=0[70]

Notable tournament successes

Rapid/exhibition tournaments

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1999 Torneo Magistral de Ajedrez, Leon beatKarpov 5–1

1986 Arab-Asian International Chess

Championship, Doha 1st1987 Sakthi Finance Grandmasters ChessTournament, Coimbatore 1st1989 51st Hoogovens Chess Tournament, Wijk aan Zee 1st1990 Asian Zonal Tournament, Qatar 1990 Manchester Chess Festival, Manchester 1st1990 Triveni Super Grandmasters Tournament,Delhi Joint 1st1992 Reggio Emilia Chess Tournament,Reggio Emilia 1st1992 Goodrich Open InternationalTournament, Calcutta 1st1992 Alekhine Memorial, Moscow 1st1993 PCA Interzonal, Groningen 1st1996 Dortmunder Schachtage, Dortmund (joint1st with Kramnik)1997 Torneo de Ajedrex, Dos Hermanas 1st1997 Invesbanka Chess tournament, Belgrade1st

1997 Credit Suisse Classic Tournament, Biel1st

1998 60th Hoogoven's Schaak Tornoi, Wijk

aan Zee 1st1998 Torneo International De Ajedrez, Linare1st1998 Fontys-Tilburg International ChessTournament 1st2003 65th Corus Chess Tournament, Wijk aanZee 1st2004 66th Corus Chess Tournament, Wijk aanZee 1st2006 68th Corus Chess Tournament, Wijk aanZee 1st2007 Linares Chess Tournament, Linares 1st2007 FIDE World Championship TournamentMexico City 1st2008 Linares Chess Tournament, Linares 1st2010 Bilbao Chess Masters Final - Third GranSlam Masters Final, Bilbao 2nd2010 London Chess Classic - London 2nd2011 Tata Steel Chess Tournament, Wijk aanZee 2nd2013 Grenke Chess Classic, Baden Baden 1st

2013 Zurich Chess Challenge, Zurich 2nd2014 Candidates Tournament, KhantyMansiysk 1st2014 Bilbao Chess Masters Final (Grand SlamChess Final), Bilbao 1st2014 London Chess Classic, London 1st2015 Zurich Chess Challenge (classicalsection), Zurich 1st2015 Shamkir Chess (Vugar GashimovMemorial), Shamkir 2nd2015 Norway Chess (Grand Chess Tour),

Stavanger 2nd

Classical tournaments

Matches

1991 World Chess Championship Candidates, Madras, Brussels Quarter-finalist1992 Linares match Anand vs Vassily Ivanchuk 5–31994-5 PCA World Championship Candidates Cycle, Linares, Las Palmas won1997 Aegon Man vs Computers chess event (clock simultan vs 6 programs) won 4–2

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Awards

Anand has received many national and international awards.

Indian national honours

Arjuna Award for Outstanding Indian Sportsman in Chess in 1985.

Padma Shri – Fourth highest civilian award awarded by Government of India in 1987.[73]The inaugural Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, India's highest sporting honour in the years 1991– 1992.

Padma Bhushan – Third highest civilian award awarded by Government of India in 2000.[73]

Padma Vibhushan – Second highest civilian award awarded by Government of India in 2007.[73]

Other honours

National Citizens Award and Soviet Land Nehru Award in 1987British Chess Federation "Book of the Year" Award in 1998 for his book My Best Games of

Chess.[74]

Anand has won the Chess Oscar in 1997, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2007 and 2008. The Chess Oscar isawarded to the year's best player according to a worldwide poll of leading chess critics, writers, and

journalists conducted by the Russian chess magazine 64.[75]

Sportstar Millennium Award in 1998, from India's premier Sports magazine for being the sportpersoof the millennium."Global Strategist Award" for Mastering many formats of World Chess Championships by

NASSCOM in 2011.[76]

Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa honoured Anand with a cheque of Rs 2 crores, for winning

the World Chess Championship for the fifth time.[77]

In 2012, he received the "Indian sportsperson of the year" and "Indian of the year" awards.[78]

In 2014 Anand was awarded the Russian Order of Friendship for the development of economic,scientific and cultural ties with Russia. The Order of Friendship was awarded to Viswanathan Anandand Boris Gelfand, the participants in the FIDE World Chess Championship Match that was held at

the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow in 2012.[79]

In 2015 Anand was honoured with the top country award at the Spanish embassy, Delhi on January8.It is given to the eminent people of Indian origin who helped to bring glory to both India and

Spain.[80][81]

4538 Vishyanand (provisional designation 1988 TP) is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered b

Kenzo Suzuki in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, on October 10, 1988.[82] [83][84]

Sample game

On his way to winning the FIDE World Chess Championship in 2000, Anand, playing White, defeated

Grandmaster Viktor Bologan (analysis by GM Ľubomír Ftáčnik):

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Anand–Bologan, 2000 World Ch.

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Position after 36...c3. Anand, in an

apparently worse position, finds an

intuitive sacrifice that leads to a winning

attack.

Anand–Bologan, New Delhi, 2000 World Championship;[85] Ruy Lopez, Breyer (ECO C95)

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. 0-0 Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. c3 0-0 9. h3 Nb8

10. d4 Nbd7 11. Nbd2 Bb7 12. Bc2 Re8 13. Nf1 Bf8 14. Ng3 c5 15. d5 c4 16. Bg5 Qc7 17.

Nf5 Kh8 18. g4 Ng8 19. Qd2 Nc5 20. Be3 Bc8 21. Ng3 Rb8 22. Kg2 a5 23. a3 Ne7 24. Rh1

Ng6 25. g5! b4!?

Anand has a strong kingside attack, so Bologan seeks counterplay with the sacrifice of a

pawn.

26. axb4 axb4 27. cxb4 Na6 28. Ra4 Nf4+ 29. Bxf4 exf4 30. Nh5 Qb6 31. Qxf4 Nxb4 32.

Bb1 Rb7 33. Ra3 Rc7 34. Rd1 Na6 35. Nd4 Qxb2 36. Rg3 c3 (see diagram) 37. Nf6!! Re5

If 37...gxf6, 38.gxf6 h6 39.Rg1! Qd2! 40.Qh4 leaves White with an irresistible initiative.

38. g6! fxg6 39. Nd7 Be7 40. Nxe5 dxe5 41. Qf7 h6 42. Qe8+ 1–0

White forces mate in 12 moves if the game were to continue, with 42...Bf8 43.Rf3 Qa344.Rxf8+ Qxf8 45.Qxf8+ Kh7 46.d6 exd4 47.Ba2 h5 48.dxc7 Nb4 49.Qg8+ Kh6 50.f4

g5 51.f5 g4 52.h4 Bxf5 53.exf5 Nxa2 54.Qh8#

See also

List of chess games between Anand and Kramnik

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Further reading

Viswanathan Anand, My Best Games of Chess (Gambit, 2001 (new edition))Edward Winter's "Books about Leading Modern Chessplayers" (Chess Notes Feature Article)(http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/modern.html)

External links

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player profile and games at Chessgames.comViswanathan Anand (https://twitter.com/Vishy64theking) on

Twitter (Chessbase article on Anand's Twitter account (http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6592))Anand wins World Championship 2010 (http://players.chessdom.com/viswanathan-anand/anand-world-chess-champion-2010)Viswanathan Anand games at 365Chess.com(http://www.365chess.com/players/Viswanathan_Anand)Interview with Viswanathan Anand (http://latestchess.com/showInterview.php?id=1) atLatestChess.com year 2007TIME: History of Chess, by Viswanathan Anand(http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1815747_1815707_1815674,00.html)

Startup Lessons from Viswanathan Anand (http://www.pluggd.in/entrepreneurship/startup-inspirations-from-viswanathan-anand-chess-champ-855/)Interview with CNN IBN, May 2008(http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/64541/05_2008/devils_anand_0405_1/devils-advocate-viswanathan-anand-on-mind-games.html)Interview at ChessBase (http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4933)Vishy Anand on lessons to board room from the board Economic Times(http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Search&Key=ETCH/2007/11/13/1/Ar00101.xml&CollName=ET_CHENNAI_ARCHIVE_2007&DOCID=89252&Keyword=%28%3Cmany%3E%3Cstem%3Evishy%3Cand%3E%3Cmany%3E%3Cstem%3Eanand%29&skin=pastissues2&AppName=2&ViewMode=HTML&GZ=T)

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Awards

Preceded by

Alexander Khalifman

FIDE World Chess Champion

2000–2002

Succeeded by

Ruslan PonomariovPreceded by

Vladimir Kramnik

World Chess Champion

2007–13

Succeeded by

Magnus Carlsen

Preceded by

Garry Kasparov

World Rapid Chess Champion

2003–2009

Succeeded by

Levon Aronian

Preceded by

Mikhail Tal

World Blitz Chess Champion

2000–2006

Succeeded by

Alexander Grischuk

Achievements

Preceded by

Veselin TopalovVladimir Kramnik

Magnus Carlsen

Magnus Carlsen

World No. 1

1 April – 31 December 20071 April – 30 September 2008

1 November – 31 December 2010

1 March – 30 June 2011

Succeeded by

Vladimir Kramnik Veselin Topalov

Magnus Carlsen

Magnus Carlsen

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