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Happy birthday Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand!
Vishy Anand, one of my favourite commentators from recent World Championships (he just seems like such a lovely guy and his analysis is always interesting and well explained), is an Indian chess grandmaster and a former five-time World Chess Champion. The FIRST grandmaster from India (he won the title in 1988) which is hard to believe given how many great Indian chess players there are now, he has the 8th highest peak FIDE raiting of all time. He remains the only player to have won the World Chess Championship in tournament, match, and knockout format, as well as rapid time controls.
Vishy playing Kasparov, 1995.
As a teenager people called him "Lightning Kid" for his rapid playing speed, and later GMs who faced him often described him as one of the all-time greats alongside Garry Kasparov (a logical comparison given the schism in the World Championship and the fact most top GMs would have played both so could compare).
As a lightning fast teenager in the 1980s.
Wikipedia describes him as "a well-liked figure throughout the chess world for two decades, evidenced by the fact that Kasparov, Kramnik, and Carlsen, all of whom were rivals for the world championship during Anand's career, each aided him in his preparations for the 2010 World Chess Championship" which is something I massively admire in sports people - the seemingly rare ability to be a top competitor AND be nice to people.
Check out his game 6 win against Karpov in the 1998 World Championship match for a great win at an important moment. Karpov had won the first four games, Vishy made a draw in game 5, and NEEDED to win. So what does he do? He plays the Trompowsky Attack (1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5) - rarely seen at GM level - and wins in 42 moves! Seriously, go google and admire. Sadly (for me at least since I'm a fan) he lost the WC in the tiebreaker games and didn't manage to become World Champion until two years later when he became the first world champion from Asia and the first world champion from outside the ex-Soviet Union since Bobby Fischer.
Anand v. Kramnik at the 2008 World Championship, game 3.
OR check out game 3 of his World Championship match against Kramnik in 2008. Here Vishy has the black pieces playing against Kramnik's Queen's Gambit Declined - they go into a really tactically sharp line known as the Blumenfeld Attack (this is part of the Semi-Slav defence, classical merin variation if you want to look it up). On move 14 Vishy plays a novelty - a new idea - that Kramnik needs to refute if he's to win. Vishy's idea is to just give up a pawn (which is usually defended) in favour of attacking the white king. Two pawns down, Vishy rejects the possibility of a draw and goes on the attack with Kramnik's king on the run. It's exciting stuff and unbelievably tense when you imagine the WC conditions they were playing in!
Vishy about to beat defending champion Magnus Carlsen in Game 3 of the 2014 World Chess Championship in Sochi.
His career is way too long and too well documented to be worth going into any greater detail - google is your friend here - but what a great player. Well worth delving into his games, not least as he was one of the first to embrace computer prep so that alone is an interesting development.
#Viswanathan Anand#vishy anand#chess#chess player#magnus carlsen#garry kasparov#world chess champion#world chess championship#born on this day#happy birthday#chess players
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Pentagram / World Chess / World Chess Championship – Tashkent Grand Prix / Poster / 2014
#pentagram#world chess#world chess championship#tashkent grand prix#poster#2014#illustration#typography
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Grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi plays game 12 of the World Chess Championship, 2023.
#this was painful#i said (about nancy kerrigan) that i like sore losers & i stand by that#but it’s much easier to watch an angry reaction than a gutted one#chess#ian nepomniachtchi#world chess championship#expression
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JUDIT POLGAR // CHESS GRANDMASTER
“She is a Hungarian chess grandmaster, generally considered the strongest female chess player of all time. In 1991, she achieved this title at the age of 15 years old, the youngest to do so, breaking the world record of Bobby Fischer. She is the only woman to have been a serious candidate for the World Chess Championship, which she participated in 2005. In 2014, she announced her retirement from competitive chess and in 2015 was elected as the new captain and head coach of the Hungarian national men’s team. She received Hungary’s highest decoration, the Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary and was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame.”
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3 Fun Facts about Max Euwe
Euwe played a 10 game match against Alekhine in 1927 shortly before Alekhine's World Championship match against Capablanca later that year. He surprised the world by proving to be a tough opponent, losing narrowly 4,5-5,5.
Euwe is the only World Champion to go on to become president of FIDE.
Euwe played two matches against Bogoljubow for the title of FIDE Champion, separate from the World Championship, in 1928. He lost both 4,5-5,5.
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#ding liren#liren#ding#world chess championship#world chess championship 2023#ian nepomniachtchi#nepomniachtchi#nepo#wcc 2023#2023 fide world champion#fide#winner#chess#2023 stuff#2023
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tfw the world chess championship games start at 3 am local time
hopefully we get another 120 move barnburner like last year so i can actually catch the end of one of these games
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Viswanathan Anand: Ambition
“As long as you are ambitious, there is always unfinished business.”
~Viswanathan Anand.
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Aushi Alzony on the opening day of the Asian Youth Chess Championship (2007)
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Pure Hemp Botanical products has been a great substitute for smoking week. I used to smoke week everyday, and now I have found an alternative, which has also improved every aspect of my life giving me a more relaxed feeling from the bedroom, to performing tasks at work, to raising my performance on the chessboard. I can say enough about the benefits of Pure Hemp !!!!
#chess pieces#chess husbands#positivity#world chess championship#chess pawns#quotes#people being people
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Yeh no
I can do M3
#core!frisk#error sans x core frisk#error!sans#errorcore#core frisk#wccau#world chess championship au
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Ding!!!
#chess#world chess championship#ding liren#ian nepomniachtchi#world chess championship 2023#fide world championship 2023
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Grandmasters Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren play the first game of a 14-game match to decide the new World Chess Champion, 2023
#it’s a good time to love losers. ding’s prep got leaked & they’ve both choked already#ian looked so pained after blundering game 12 it tore me up#chess#ian nepomniachtchi#ding liren#world chess championship
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gift for @p3ld
World Chest Championship AU with Corry and Error Sans is quite inspiring!
tbh i want to see more content on this
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3 Fun Facts about Alexander Alekhine
He took chess lessons as a child from the master Duz-Khotimirsky.
He became a Doctor of Law in 1925.
In 1932, he set a new record of playing 32 blindfold games simultaneously, in Chicago.
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bhaiii gukesh actually fucking won the candidates at the age of fucking 17 are u kidding me😭😭😭 he’s the youngest person in the history of fide to win candidates!! God i feel so proud as an Indian!!! Finally after so many years Ian Nepomniachtchi is not leading the candidates !! Now he just has to defeat the previous world champion Ding Liren and he’d be youngest ever player to actually win the Fide world championship😭😭😭😭 My man is here on a spree of making history 🥹🥹
#God this is the best news of today🥹🥹🥹#Gukesh Dommaraju#Fide candidates#chess#fide world championship
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