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Viswanathan Anand
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Viswanathan Anand
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 11
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It is important that you don't let your opponent impose his style of play on you. A part of that begins mentally. At the chessboard if you start blinking every time he challenges you then in a certain sense you are withdrawing. That is very important to avoid.
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Carlsen will be ridiculously difficult to play against. (on the 2013 World Championship match)
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Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what you are good at.
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A win is a win, which is about that particular moment.
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In any match, there are few critical moments where there's no second best decision. The rest of the moves are intuitive.
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I was very lucky that while I was a chess player in a country where chess was not a big deal, I happened to be in the one city where there was a sprouting chess team: Chennai.
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For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.
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Parents, first and foremost, it is important to... understand and recognise the activities your child is naturally gravitating towards. It's important also to ensure that your child likes what he or she is doing. I believe in exposing children to as many hobbies and extracurricular activities as possible.
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There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player.
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Intuition in chess can be defined as the first move that comes to mind when you see a position.
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My practice schedule is not constant and changes a lot and depends on my moods also.
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If revenge motivates you, go for it! But the main thing is to set your game in order.
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I don't know how many calories an average chess player burns per game, but it often exceeds that of a player in ball games. It is not only the chess as such: You need to be fit and undergo complicated preparation.
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Each match I approach like a new one. The work is so immense that you don't have time to sit and ponder.
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I'll take my five positions per second any day, thank you
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We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow.
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For me, chess is not a profession, it is a way of life, a passion. People may feel that I have conquered the peak and will not have to struggle. Financially, perhaps that is true but as far as chess goes, I'm still learning a lot!
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It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not to do that anymore.
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I would never suggest to anyone that they drop school for chess. First of all even if you can make it in chess, your social skills need to be developed there.
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In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may lose in the first round itself.
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