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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 6,189,454 page views. His biography is available in 86 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 83 in 2019). Viswanathan Anand is the 50th most popular chess player (up from 71st in 2019), the 248th most popular biography from India (up from 313th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Viswanathan Anand ranks 50 out of 374. Before him are Frank Marshall, Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais, Howard Staunton, Pedro Damiano, Lajos Portisch, and Salo Flohr. After him are Géza Maróczy, Elisaveta Bykova, Carl Schlechter, Joseph Henry Blackburne, Mark Taimanov, and Magnus Carlsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1969, Viswanathan Anand ranks 59. Before him are Robert Prosinečki, Dana International, Pauley Perrette, Bixente Lizarazu, Ilir Meta, and Christian Slater. After him are Predrag Mijatović, Ice Cube, Brian Laudrup, Giorgi Margvelashvili, Julie Delpy, and Keith Flint.

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In India

Among people born in India, Viswanathan Anand ranks 248 out of 1,493. Before him are Michael Radford (1946), D. R. Bendre (1896), Abdul-Qādir Bedil (1642), Baji Rao I (1700), Nizamuddin Auliya (1238), and Madan Mohan Malaviya (1861). After him are Anna Hazare (1937), Guru Amar Das (1479), K. Kamaraj (1903), Rahul Sankrityayan (1893), Velu Nachiyar (1730), and Jaggi Vasudev (1957).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In India

Among chess players born in India, Viswanathan Anand ranks 1. After him are Humpy Koneru (1987), Pentala Harikrishna (1986), Tania Sachdev (1986), Krishnan Sasikiran (1981), Parimarjan Negi (1993), Harika Dronavalli (1991), Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa (2005), and Padmini Rout (1994).

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