Artikelnummer
LXLOVANA
Autor
Anand, Vishy
140 Seiten, kartoniert, Caissa Chess Books, 1. Auflage 2006
Aus der Reihe »The Chess Greats of the World«
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This book contains 50 chess diagrams, each showing a critical position in which a very strong move follows. You can also take part in the interesting chess fights by trying to find the moves in question. The game itself is shown on the page after the diagram. And the chess great whose games you can review is considered by many to be the strongest chess player the world has ever seen.
The Career of Anand
The fifteenth world champion - the first Asian - of modern chess, Viswanathan (Vishy) Anand marks the beginning of another era in the history of the royal game. His peris symbolic: it expresses that chess sport, the centre of which was for a long time in Western Europe and Russia, became univerin our age. Anand was born where chess itself originates from. Chaturanga, the anchess took shape in India sometime round the fifth century. One and a half millater, on 11th December 1969, a boy-child was born in the town of Chennai (the former Madras), of which he is now the best known son. Anand is not a lonesome knight of chess. The love and support of a rising, continent-sized country is behind him. In India, as early as 2000, when winning the FIDE title, he was already regarded as a world champion of full value. And since winning the reunified title of World Chess Champion in 2007 he is a celebrated nationhero. In the vast country he is looked upon as the greatest Indian sportsman. In addition to his individual talent, it is this historic and cultural background that accounts for the persistent ambition of the likeable Indian chess player, which, as a result, enabled him to get to the peak of the chess world at the age of 37 years.
He learned to play chess at age six from his mother. His extraordinary gifts are indiby the fact that already in his childhe played at an unusually quick rate - and yet with few mistakes and effectively. As the result of his rapid manner of play, the nickname "lightning-handed Vishy" was stuck to him in the chess world, but with regard to his native land, in the international
press he is often called "the Tiger from Madtoo.
In his native land he swiftly rose among the best, and in 1987 he earned the title of World Junior Champion - the first Asian to do so. He was the first Indian Chess player to be awarded the title of international grandIt was two years later, at the age of 19, that he became connected with the fight for the adult world title. He qualified as equal third from the Manila Interzonal World Championship final. In his first world champion candidates' match he won against Aleksei Dreev, but among the best eight he lost to Anatoly Karpov.
He achieved his first, really sensational tournament win in 1992 in Reggio Emilia, where he won defeating both Kasparov and Karpov. By this time, his style characterized by a dynamic conduct of play containing a lot of combinative elements has taken shape.
It is not for nothing that he is considered to be one of the greatest experts of open games. His play is variegated, never boring, and his games - just like his whole personality - rathe love of chess. He competes a lot and does not lose heart when doing not so well. With his modest, likeable manners he is one of the most attractive figures of the international chess elite.
He competed in both branches in the parworld championship cycle of 1993-95. Although in the FIDE tournament he was eliminated by Gata Kamsky of USA, in the title-gaining contests of PCA (Professional Chess Assocoation) he got almost as far as the peak. In 1995 in New York he could match his strength with Kasparov for the PCA world title. In the middle of their match he took the lead, but in a brilliant game Kasparov equalized and finally defended his title. But defeat did not discourage Vishy, and in the following years he repeatedly went to war to gain the world title.
In the knockout system world championof FIDE organized in Groningen in 1998 he qualified for the final by defeating his six opponents, including Michael Adams. Then, after a score of 3:3 with Anatoly Karpov, he was beaten by him only in the rapid game playoff. It may have been some compensato him that for his first book, My Best Games of Chess, he was given "The Best Book of the Year" award by the British Chess Federation.
In 2000 his efforts were at last crowned with success. He won the World Cup, and in the FIDE World Championship in New Delhe could defeat Adams a second time, too. Then came the final in Teheran, and by deAleksei Shirov of Spain he became FIDE World Chess Champion.
But then the era of Kasparov's reign still lasted, therefore Anand - except for the In- was not really looked upon as the number one player of the world. And one year later he did actually lose his title, havbeen defeated in Moscow already in the semi-final by Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine, ahead of whom he had won the Junior World Championship. This fiasco was followed by a one and a half year long trough. But once he got over this, he started soaring again, winning one super-tournament after the other: in Wijk aan Zee, Dortmund, Linares, Monaand Mainz. Chess specialists, too, have appreciated his successes: after 1997 and 1998, two times again, in 2003 and 2004, they selected him The Best of the Year. So far he was four times awarded the Chess Oscar.
It is well-known that the Indian grandis a specialist of rapid tournaments. In short games he is almost undefeatable, and this is what brought him his second world title. FIDE organized the first rapid world championship final in 2003 in Cap d'Adge with 25-minute games and an addi10 seconds after each move, which was won by Anand by beating Kramnik in the final. So Lightning-Handed Vishy has won the title World Rapid Chess Champion - the first to do so in the world.
In 2004, he won the historic super-tour"Corus" in Holland for the fourth time. With this win Anand entered the elite league of players that have won the Corus four times: former World Champion Max Euwe, Lajos Portisch and Viktor Korchnoi. This year brought him several great successHe also came first in the Dortmund suand then, in rapid chess, he won for the fourth time the very strong event in Mainz and, for the fifth time, the tournain Corsica. In the Calvia Olympiad, as captain of the team, he led the Indians to a historic sixth place.
In 2005, he was also one of the favourites in the World Championship Final in Argenbut then, after an unexpected loss, he failed to catch up with Topalov playing at the top of his form, so at length he finished equal second.
It was in April 2006 that his Elo rating broke the 2800 mark, and from April 2007 he has been holding the number one spot in the world ranking list. This is an extraordinaachievement, specially as he is an extreactive competitor, and the many tourfollowing one another involve the risk of weaker performances. But Anand is a real chess player who fears neither failure nor the burden of being a favourite.
However, he could only become the most active super-grandmaster of the past two deby sharing his time between India and the world's chess centre, Europe. He settled down with his wife Aruna in Collado Mediano, a small Spanish town near Madrid. Yet he is in a close, daily, contact with his homeland, where he is extremely popular.
Anand is said to have revolutionized Inchess life. His performance was recogwith the highest Indian sport and civilawards. His English-language Indian home page is: tnq.in/vishwa.html.
To the 2007 World Championship final held in Mexico he came with prospects of victory, too, but besides him the field inthe active world champion Kramnik and six more - almost invincible - super-grandmasters. This time Anand has realized Kasparov's prophecy, who held him the numone favourite. He was better prepared than his rivals, and worked out a number of new opening variations with his Danish secPeter Heine Nielsen. He managed to remain unbeaten, though Kramnik made him sweat, and in his game against Grischuk he also had to fight for the draw. But finally, with a score of 9 out of 14 games, a full point clear of the field, he won the tournagaining his third world title - this time the reunified one - at the age of 37 years.
At the end of 2007, he still heads the world ranking list, being the only one of the super-grandmasters to surpass the magic 2800. "King Anand", the first Asian World Chess Champion meritedly wears the symcrown of the chess king. But by now the rate has speeded up, the struggle among the best is intensified. In 2008, according to the rules, Anand will have to defend his throne against Kramnik in a return match. Their encounter promises to be a magnififight.
The Career of Anand
The fifteenth world champion - the first Asian - of modern chess, Viswanathan (Vishy) Anand marks the beginning of another era in the history of the royal game. His peris symbolic: it expresses that chess sport, the centre of which was for a long time in Western Europe and Russia, became univerin our age. Anand was born where chess itself originates from. Chaturanga, the anchess took shape in India sometime round the fifth century. One and a half millater, on 11th December 1969, a boy-child was born in the town of Chennai (the former Madras), of which he is now the best known son. Anand is not a lonesome knight of chess. The love and support of a rising, continent-sized country is behind him. In India, as early as 2000, when winning the FIDE title, he was already regarded as a world champion of full value. And since winning the reunified title of World Chess Champion in 2007 he is a celebrated nationhero. In the vast country he is looked upon as the greatest Indian sportsman. In addition to his individual talent, it is this historic and cultural background that accounts for the persistent ambition of the likeable Indian chess player, which, as a result, enabled him to get to the peak of the chess world at the age of 37 years.
He learned to play chess at age six from his mother. His extraordinary gifts are indiby the fact that already in his childhe played at an unusually quick rate - and yet with few mistakes and effectively. As the result of his rapid manner of play, the nickname "lightning-handed Vishy" was stuck to him in the chess world, but with regard to his native land, in the international
press he is often called "the Tiger from Madtoo.
In his native land he swiftly rose among the best, and in 1987 he earned the title of World Junior Champion - the first Asian to do so. He was the first Indian Chess player to be awarded the title of international grandIt was two years later, at the age of 19, that he became connected with the fight for the adult world title. He qualified as equal third from the Manila Interzonal World Championship final. In his first world champion candidates' match he won against Aleksei Dreev, but among the best eight he lost to Anatoly Karpov.
He achieved his first, really sensational tournament win in 1992 in Reggio Emilia, where he won defeating both Kasparov and Karpov. By this time, his style characterized by a dynamic conduct of play containing a lot of combinative elements has taken shape.
It is not for nothing that he is considered to be one of the greatest experts of open games. His play is variegated, never boring, and his games - just like his whole personality - rathe love of chess. He competes a lot and does not lose heart when doing not so well. With his modest, likeable manners he is one of the most attractive figures of the international chess elite.
He competed in both branches in the parworld championship cycle of 1993-95. Although in the FIDE tournament he was eliminated by Gata Kamsky of USA, in the title-gaining contests of PCA (Professional Chess Assocoation) he got almost as far as the peak. In 1995 in New York he could match his strength with Kasparov for the PCA world title. In the middle of their match he took the lead, but in a brilliant game Kasparov equalized and finally defended his title. But defeat did not discourage Vishy, and in the following years he repeatedly went to war to gain the world title.
In the knockout system world championof FIDE organized in Groningen in 1998 he qualified for the final by defeating his six opponents, including Michael Adams. Then, after a score of 3:3 with Anatoly Karpov, he was beaten by him only in the rapid game playoff. It may have been some compensato him that for his first book, My Best Games of Chess, he was given "The Best Book of the Year" award by the British Chess Federation.
In 2000 his efforts were at last crowned with success. He won the World Cup, and in the FIDE World Championship in New Delhe could defeat Adams a second time, too. Then came the final in Teheran, and by deAleksei Shirov of Spain he became FIDE World Chess Champion.
But then the era of Kasparov's reign still lasted, therefore Anand - except for the In- was not really looked upon as the number one player of the world. And one year later he did actually lose his title, havbeen defeated in Moscow already in the semi-final by Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine, ahead of whom he had won the Junior World Championship. This fiasco was followed by a one and a half year long trough. But once he got over this, he started soaring again, winning one super-tournament after the other: in Wijk aan Zee, Dortmund, Linares, Monaand Mainz. Chess specialists, too, have appreciated his successes: after 1997 and 1998, two times again, in 2003 and 2004, they selected him The Best of the Year. So far he was four times awarded the Chess Oscar.
It is well-known that the Indian grandis a specialist of rapid tournaments. In short games he is almost undefeatable, and this is what brought him his second world title. FIDE organized the first rapid world championship final in 2003 in Cap d'Adge with 25-minute games and an addi10 seconds after each move, which was won by Anand by beating Kramnik in the final. So Lightning-Handed Vishy has won the title World Rapid Chess Champion - the first to do so in the world.
In 2004, he won the historic super-tour"Corus" in Holland for the fourth time. With this win Anand entered the elite league of players that have won the Corus four times: former World Champion Max Euwe, Lajos Portisch and Viktor Korchnoi. This year brought him several great successHe also came first in the Dortmund suand then, in rapid chess, he won for the fourth time the very strong event in Mainz and, for the fifth time, the tournain Corsica. In the Calvia Olympiad, as captain of the team, he led the Indians to a historic sixth place.
In 2005, he was also one of the favourites in the World Championship Final in Argenbut then, after an unexpected loss, he failed to catch up with Topalov playing at the top of his form, so at length he finished equal second.
It was in April 2006 that his Elo rating broke the 2800 mark, and from April 2007 he has been holding the number one spot in the world ranking list. This is an extraordinaachievement, specially as he is an extreactive competitor, and the many tourfollowing one another involve the risk of weaker performances. But Anand is a real chess player who fears neither failure nor the burden of being a favourite.
However, he could only become the most active super-grandmaster of the past two deby sharing his time between India and the world's chess centre, Europe. He settled down with his wife Aruna in Collado Mediano, a small Spanish town near Madrid. Yet he is in a close, daily, contact with his homeland, where he is extremely popular.
Anand is said to have revolutionized Inchess life. His performance was recogwith the highest Indian sport and civilawards. His English-language Indian home page is: tnq.in/vishwa.html.
To the 2007 World Championship final held in Mexico he came with prospects of victory, too, but besides him the field inthe active world champion Kramnik and six more - almost invincible - super-grandmasters. This time Anand has realized Kasparov's prophecy, who held him the numone favourite. He was better prepared than his rivals, and worked out a number of new opening variations with his Danish secPeter Heine Nielsen. He managed to remain unbeaten, though Kramnik made him sweat, and in his game against Grischuk he also had to fight for the draw. But finally, with a score of 9 out of 14 games, a full point clear of the field, he won the tournagaining his third world title - this time the reunified one - at the age of 37 years.
At the end of 2007, he still heads the world ranking list, being the only one of the super-grandmasters to surpass the magic 2800. "King Anand", the first Asian World Chess Champion meritedly wears the symcrown of the chess king. But by now the rate has speeded up, the struggle among the best is intensified. In 2008, according to the rules, Anand will have to defend his throne against Kramnik in a return match. Their encounter promises to be a magnififight.
| EAN | 9789638714183 |
|---|---|
| Gewicht | 110 g |
| Hersteller | Caissa Chess Books |
| Breite | 11,6 cm |
| Höhe | 15,4 cm |
| Medium | Buch |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2006 |
| Autor | Dániel Lovas |
| Reihe | The Chess Greats of the World |
| Sprache | Englisch, Figurinen |
| Auflage | 1 |
| ISBN-13 | 9789638714183 |
| Seiten | 140 |
| Einband | kartoniert |