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At a first glance this intelligent and humble person could pass for a teacher or an engineer. Nonetheless, Viswanathan Anand is one of the greatest chess champions in history. Winner of 5 Chess Oscars (as best player of the year), one of the 5 people to ever cross the 2800 threshold in FIDE rating, and the only World Chess Champion to win this title in all formats: knock-out, round-robin tournament, match.
Garry Kasparov has a terrific sense of the future. In 1993 (!) in one interview he claimed three things: 1) he will probably easily win the match against Short 2) Kamsky doesn't have the guts to become a World Champion, although he will be very close 3) when asked who may take the title from him, Garry said there was a quite promising lad named Kramnik. The rest is history. Therefore, when Garry retired, he mentioned that now Anand should become the king. Five years after that, Anand has a record of beating both Vladimir Kramnik (who took the title from Kasparov) and Veselin Topalov (who won the last standard game played by Garry in Linares, 2005) in World Championship matches. Vishy may have been quoted saying "Nowadays if you aren't a grandmaster by 14, you can forget about it", but he himself is a living proof that one can play at world-class level even at 40.
Our congratulations to the winner, and respect for the challenger! This match has been so exciting and outstanding in terms of fighting spirit and level of the games, that it's hard to believe it's over.
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Congratulations Indeed
Massive congratulations to Viswanathan Anand, and to you for such an incisive short blog entry.
Incidentally, my first real memory of top class chess was returning from school aged 10 to watch (and attempt to understand) Kasparov Vs. Short, so it was a pleasure to see that mentioned here.
