Viswanathan Anand - Chess Quotes

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... in 2000, when I defeated Alexei Shirov at the World Chess Championship in Teheran to become the first Indian ever to win the title.

Viswanathan Anand

When I started out, Indians did not have much interest in chess…Now India seems to spawn new chess academies every day.

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I can relate to many of the emotions they describe... But personally I just like to get on with the job of playing chess. I understand that if I win, I'm probably crushing my opponent's ego but it's not like I do that with great satisfaction. So I don't really look for conflict around the game … It's true that someone like Kasparov has this sense of history, and I'm talking world history rather than chess history. He has a sense of himself being in it, which, for me, is very hard to understand or even relate to in any way.

Viswanathan Anand

Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion.

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My dream is chess played in every school in India. The Soviets would include a chessboard along with the bride's trousseau to ensure that the children born of that marriage knew the rules of chess.

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