CHESS PLAYER

Viswanathan Anand

1969 - Today

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Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster and a former five-time World Chess Champion. He became the first grandmaster from India in 1988, and he has the eighth-highest peak FIDE rating of all time. In 2022, he was elected the deputy president of FIDE.Anand defeated Alexei Shirov in a six-game match to win the 2000 FIDE World Chess Championship, a title he held until 2002. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Viswanathan Anand has received more than 6,153,462 page views. His biography is available in 87 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 86 in 2019). Viswanathan Anand is the 60th most popular chess player (down from 50th in 2019), the 327th most popular biography from India (down from 245th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Chess Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 6.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 87

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Viswanathan Anand has had the most page views in the with 869,628 views, followed by Russian (43,578), and Spanish (35,820). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Min Nan (80.95%), Kirghiz (74.11%), and Low Saxon (73.16%)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Viswanathan Anand ranks 60 out of 461. Before him are Alexander Kotov, Lionel Kieseritzky, Magnus Carlsen, Salo Flohr, Aleksandar Matanović, and Géza Maróczy. After him are Dawid Janowski, Elisaveta Bykova, Mark Taimanov, Vladimir Kramnik, Olga Rubtsova, and Szymon Winawer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1969, Viswanathan Anand ranks 81. Before him are Tomas Brolin, Marjane Satrapi, Gedeon Burkhard, Zach Galifianakis, Christian Slater, and Bob Sinclar. After him are Jason Bateman, Erika Eleniak, Josh Holloway, Ice Cube, Bobby Brown, and Kathryn Morris.

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In India

Among people born in India, Viswanathan Anand ranks 327 out of 1,861. Before him are Sikandar Lodi (1450), Puneeth Rajkumar (1975), Bhāskara I (600), Bahubali (null), Girish Karnad (1938), and Abbé Faria (1756). After him are Abanindranath Tagore (1871), Tatya Tope (1814), Rajnath Singh (1951), Birju Maharaj (1937), Lakshmi Sahgal (1914), and Shashi Kapoor (1938).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In India

Among chess players born in India, Viswanathan Anand ranks 1. After him are Vidit Gujrathi (1994), R Vaishali (2001), Humpy Koneru (1987), Tania Sachdev (1986), Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa (2005), Pentala Harikrishna (1986), Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi (1979), Harika Dronavalli (1991), Krishnan Sasikiran (1981), Yuzvendra Chahal (1990), and Parimarjan Negi (1993).

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