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Vishy Anand retains the world chess championship

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what an accomplishment :hatsoff: sort of like our ICF chess champion H4te :P It's sad to see this news doesn't get more coverage outside Indian media :headshake:

vvvslaxman Grand Master

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I think Tendu is one of the guys' date=' I am confident winning against (even blind folded, deaf-ed and dumb-ed).[/quote'] Against Viru you can win just with King i guess :cantstop:
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Viswanathan Anand lashes out at his critics

"I think that this is the first time I have played a match where so many people seemed to have negative opinion about my play. And the thing is I do not think I lacked motivation," Anand said about his clash with Israel's Boris Gelfand, whom he beat in Moscow on Wednesday to win his fifth world title. 42-year-old Anand told NDTV in an interview from Moscow that a lot of people were 'parroting' Kasparov's views. "It was not just Kasparov but a lot of people were parroting what he was saying. It (the win) was satisfying to win with a negative opinion around me." The champion, who is known for his cool temperament, said that he had proved Russian Kasparov, who is one of the greatest ever chess players, wrong. Some years ago, he had described Kasparov as his nemesis after losing matches to him. "He (Kasparov) keeps talking about my age but I could just as well say Boris (Gelfand) is even slightly older. I think the problem is all the people who started out assuming that I was the heavy favourite in this match were reluctant to admit that their prognosis was wrong," Anand said. Anand said he never considered himself as the favourite and knew that Gelfand would be a tough opponent. "I never saw myself as a favourite, the thing is I knew Gelfand would be a very very difficult opponent. And looking at his recent plays I understood that this is how the match would go. And so I never felt I had to answer after every game 'what was going wrong?' because nothing was going wrong. "This was Gelfand playing well and me trying to play equally well, hang in there and wait for my chance. But all those people who said I was a favourite were reluctant to admit that they were wrong and were simply saying that I lacked motivation and was playing badly and so on and on. And I definitely feel like I proved something here," said Anand.
http://sports.ndtv.com/othersports/chess/item/191110-viswanathan-anand-lashes-out-at-his-critics
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"I think that this is the first time I have played a match where so many people seemed to have negative opinion about my play. And the thing is I do not think I lacked motivation,
Playing for the audience - not a good sign. Not that I am blaming him ( it is humane to get affected by public opinion/feedback)....but I wish, he can come out of this and play his natural game.
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^ I think he's merely stating that "this time" there was negative opinion about his play and despite that he continued to play as he thought was correct. My understanding was he didn't play according to what people suggested.

The Dark Horse Rising Star

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Do we have any other Indian who is ready to follow Anand's route :hmmm:
Latest news: 07TH_SRINATH_1106731f.jpg Chess players continue to demand attention. After World champion Viswanathan Anand's grand show in Moscow, news has come in from Tashkent of two other Indians N. Srinath of Tamil Nadu and Ivana Maria Furtado of Goa having won the Asian junior titles in the championship organised by the Uzbekistan Federation. International Master Srinath, who earned his maiden GM norm by winning the championship, had won the world under-12 title earlier. To that extent winning ÃÃig' titles is nothing new to this Chennai boy, who has just come out of Velammal School (Mogappair) with flying colours in the Plus Two exams. As his father C.L. Narayanan put it, ÅÉe has already qualified to play in the U-18 world championship but before that his next goal is the Asian youth championship. Remarkable journey It has been a remarkable journey for young Srinath in chess. As a five-year old he was initiated into the sport for fun by his cousin on a visit to Mumbai. The interest caught on as he pestered his father, on return, for a chess board. Things began to happen from there. By the age of eight he had become an international player and before long, his father, who works for the United Insurance, had started taking him to various tournaments around the globe. ŵhat is how we met Anand in Spain once, recalled Narayanan about their favourite sportsman and a legend. As a father he was also keen that the son does not give studies a slip. Å£ut after joining chess his studies improved. He wrote the Plus Two exams studying virtually for two months only and has come out with 93 per cent marks, said Narayanan with obvious sense of pride. Srinath gets his coaching from GM Abhijit Kunte, who is based in Pune. Å°nce or twice in a month I used to take him to Pune. Now that he has finished his school, he plans to take up commerce and move over to a college in Pune. Chess will be his priority, he said. For the record, aside from the two titles won in the championship, India had a bronze medal winner too in WFM Rucha Pujari of Maharashtra. http://www.thehindu.com/sport/other-sports/article3501329.ece
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