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🔹 Viswanathan Anand
🔹 Indian chess Grandmaster

♦️ Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand is an Indian chess grandmaster, a former World Chess Champion, and the current World Rapid Chess Champion.
Anand became India's first grandmaster in 1988.

▪️ Full name: Anand or Anand Vishwanathan[1]
▪️ Country: India
▪️ Born : 11 December 1969 (age 49) Mayiladuthurai, Tamil Nadu
▪️ Title: Grandmaster (1988)
▪️ World Champion: 2000–2002 (FIDE) 2007–2013
▪️ FIDE rating: 2767 (February 2018)
▪️ Peak rating: 2817 (March 2011)
▪️ Ranking: No. 9 (October 2017)
▪️ Peak ranking : No. 1 (April 2007)

♦️ Anand’s first tilt at the World Championship cycle took place during the last of the traditional FIDE cycles that had been established after World War II, albeit a cycle cut short at the final by Kasparov’s split from FIDE in 1993. Anand kicked off his world championship campaign when he won the gold medal at the 1990 Asian Zonal Championship, qualifying for the Manila Interzonal later that year. He came third at that Interzonal, half a point behind co-leaders Vassily Ivanchuk and Boris Gelfand, thereby qualifying for the Candidates Matches. In 1991, he defeated Alexey Dreev in Chennai in the first round of Candidates matches, but lost to Anatoly Karpov in Brussels in the quarter finals.

♦️ A memorable game by Anand 👇🏼👇🏼
🔸 Mikhail Tal vs Viswanathan Anand
🔸 Cannes GMA (4) (1989), Cannes FRA, Feb-??
🔸 English Opening: Symmetrical Variation. General (A30)
💢Download annotated video file of this game from below URL👇🏼👇🏼
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRC_xvA8v1Q

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🔸 Mikhail Tal vs Viswanathan Anand
🔸 Cannes GMA (4) (1989), Cannes FRA, Feb-??
🔸 English Opening: Symmetrical Variation. General (A30)

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🔸 Mikhail Tal - Viswanathan Anand, Cannes 1989
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🔸International Fajr Cup (IRI) 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Firouzja, Alireza (2549)
⚫️Khamisi, S Jafar (2236)
🔸1-0

📘 23...R×d4?
A poisoned pawn!
24.Bf2 Rc4 25.Rad1 Nd5 26.Nc5! Qf7 27.N×e6! 1-0

🔸International Fajr Cup (IRI) 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Hosseinzadeh Nima (2254)
⚫️Idani Pouya (2595)
🔸1-0

📘 33...Qf6!
Black defends his knight with a mating threat.
34.Bd3
(34.B×e5 N×e5 35.Q×e5 Rf1!+ 36.Kh2 Qh6+ 36.Kg3 Qh4#)
34...R×d4?
Black made a mistake under the opponent's pressure. He should have continued with 34...Ng4.
35.c×d4 N×d3 36.Q×d3 Nf8 36.Rf1 +-

🔸International Fajr Cup (IRI) 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Maghsoodloo Parham (2594)
⚫️Faghirnavaz Ali (2248)
🔸1-0

📘 17.f3! White typically attacks the opponent's strong center.
17...e3 18.R×c6! b×c6 19.N×d4 Bg6 20.B×e3 Re8 21.Qc1 +/=

🔸International Fajr Cup (IRI) 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Sharbaf Mohsen (2256)
⚫️Kuzubov Yuriy (2695)
🔸0-1

📘 24.R×f5? (Rf1)
Mohsen Sharbaf has made a mistake by this brave sacrifice. He is an Iranian international master with a sharp style.
24...Re6! 25.Qh4 g×f5 26.Nd5 Qd6 27.c4 Kf8 28.Kg1 h6 29.Qd4 Qe5 30.Qd3 Q×b2 -+

⚪️#263 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Georgiev,Vladimir (2592)
🔸Aleksic,Nenad (2417)
🔸Cutro 2001

📘 15.b4!
A very interesting pawn sacrifice. The first intention is to cross black's simple plan of playing ...cxd4 and ...Nc5-e4, which would seem to offer him a fair share of the play. 15...cxd4 is still possible, but after 16 Nxd4 black's knight is denied the obvious route to make a similar impact.

⚪️#264 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Kramnik,Vladimir (2797)
🔸Gelfand,Boris (2712)
🔸 Astana 2001

📘 20.Bxf6!
Another typical Catalan liquidation. White has intended to play Nc4 but he was afraid of ...Nxe4. In this moment the immediate route to c5 is very much the issue too.
20.e4? the weakening of the d3-square; 20...Ne5!
20.a5 Bd8!

⚪️#265 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Van Wely,Loek (2670)
🔸Iordachescu,Viorel (2589)
🔸EU-ch 2nd Ohrid 2001

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 265

C: Ba3 – 9
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 53%

B: Nd2 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍 35%

A: h3 – 2
👍👍 12%

👥 17 people voted so far.

⚪️#266 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Tkachiev,Vladislav (2672)
🔸Conquest,Stuart (2563)
🔸EU-ch 2nd Ohrid 2001

📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 266

B: Re1 – 14
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 78%

A: Bc6 – 3
👍👍 17%

C: Bg5 – 1
👍 6%

👥 18 people voted so far.