Indian Grandmaster.........

Viswanathan Anand
Full name	Viswanathan Anand
Country	India
Born	11 December 1969 (age 39) Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Title	Grandmaster (1988)
World Champion	2000–2002 (FIDE), 2007–present (undisputed)
FIDE rating	2788 (No. 2 on the July 2009 FIDE ratings list)
Peak rating	2803 (April 2006, April 2008)

Chess titles

1983 National Sub-Junior Chess Champion

1984 Asian Junior Champion

1984 International Master

1985 Indian National Champion

1987 World Junior Chess Champion

1988 Grandmaster

1990 Asian Champion

2000 FIDE World Chess Champion

2000 World Blitz Chess Champion

2003 FIDE World Rapid Chess Champion

2007 World Chess Champion (Undisputed)

2008 World Chess Champion (Undisputed)

Awards

Anand has received many national and international awards.

Arjuna award for Outstanding Indian Sportsman in Chess in 1985

Padma Shri, National Citizens Award and Soviet Land Nehru Award in 1987

The inaugural Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, India's highest sporting honour in the

year 1991–1992.

British Chess Federation 'Book of the Year' Award in 1998 for his book My Best Games of Chess

Padma Bhushan in 2000

Jameo de Oro the highest honour given by the Government of Lanzarote in Spain

on 25 April 2001. The award is given to illustrious personalities with extraordinary achievements.

Chess Oscar (1997, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2007 and 2008)

Sportstar Millennium Award in 1998, from India's premier Sports magazine for being the sportperson of the millennium

Padma Vibhushan in 2007.

By,

P.Anandharaj,

III-yr CSE,

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