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You bring to chess facets of your personality and what you are. I have interests other than chess, like music and world and current affairs. I also have many friends around the world with whom I like to keep in touch.
Viswanathan Anand
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Viswanathan Anand
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 11
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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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When I was about six, I saw my elder siblings play chess and pestered my mother into teaching me. Very soon, I was beating everyone at home, and they thought it would be good to join a club. So my sister would take me to the Tal chess club on Thursdays and weekends.
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I think the draw quotient has always been high in world championship matches because the amount of effort people put into neutralizing each other's openings. It's just now with computers that it has reached a new level.
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Carlsen will be ridiculously difficult to play against. (on the 2013 World Championship match)
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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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Preparedness for a game that usually lasts four-five hours requires good physical condition and also steady nerves.
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I feel that schools and corporates should help the government in popularising sports in the country. Blaming the government for every sporting debacle will not be fair.
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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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I appreciate the support and anyone who takes up a position on my behalf. Especially in matches, this feeling that there are people behind you, gives me a lot of strength.
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I would prefer chess to become part of the Olympic Games. This would also lead to chess become more accepted as a sport in general.
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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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India has lot of talent. What I am happy with is that the talent keeps on coming. Certainly it could be nice, though I am not terribly keen on seeing my successor yet.
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Grandmasters decline with age. That's a given. There is nothing special about the age of 40, but age eventually takes its toll. That much is clear. Beyond that it's about how long you can put off the effects and compensate for them. Mistakes will crop in but you try to compensate for them with experience and hard work.
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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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In a way players at the top should try to promote the game in their own countries as that is the legacy that makes you feel proud. If you have not done that you have failed as a sportsperson.
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My practice schedule is not constant and changes a lot and depends on my moods also.
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For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.
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When there's an important tournament going on, I try and stay in a bubble. It's easy that way because then you don't have to worry about anything else.
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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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