Biography of viswanathan anand chess player

Viswanathan Anand is an Indian chess player. He holds the title of chess grandmaster and is a former five-time World Chess Champion. Achieving the status of the first grandmaster from India in , he boasts the eighth-highest peak FIDE rating in history. In , he was elected as the deputy president of FIDE. His zodiac sign is Sagittarius.

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Later, he moved to Chennai with his family, where he spent his childhood. Anand began learning chess at the age of six, after he saw his elder siblings playing chess; he asked his mother to teach him how to play chess. Later, his father got a job as a consultant on a contractual basis for the Philippine National Railways. He gained a deep understanding of the game while living in Manila with his parents from to the s.

A childhood image of Viswanathan Anand playing chess. His father, Krishnamurthy Viswanathan, was a retired general manager from Southern Railways, who died at the age of 92 on 15 April after a brief illness. He has two elder siblings.

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His brother, Shivakumar, who is 13 years older than Anand, is a manager at Crompton Greaves in India. His sister, Anuradha. A wedding day image of Viswanathan Anand and Aruna. He follows Hinduism.