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VISWANATHAN ANAND, THE CHAMPIAN IN WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP MEXICO, 2007
Submitted by aneurinsalim on Thu, 10/04/2007 - 12:32am.
The GM Vishwanathan Anand it's the new world Chess Champion 2007, after drawing with Peter Leko, in the 14th and last round of the World Chess Championship Mexico 2007.
Viswanathan Anand of India, rated world number one, coasted to a draw against Peter Leko in 20 moves of a Closed Ruy Lopez to win the World Championship in Mexico City with 9 points out of 14 rounds, the only undefeated player in the 8-man double round robin.
The final positions for the World Chess Championship were:
1. Vishwanathan Anand = 9 points.
2. Vladimir Kramnik = 8 points
3. Boris Gelfand = 8 points
4. Peter Leko = 7 points
5. Peter Svidler = 6.5 points
6. Alexander Morozevich = 6 points
7. Levon Aronian = 6 points
8. Alexander Grischuk = 5.5 points
more about V. Anand
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/04/2007 - 1:43am.
The Indian whiz wins a prize of USD 390,000. (Rs.15600000), which is the highest of an Indian from sports only [note that cricket is not like this. they will get only less prize money]
you can have more details about V. Anand, please see the following link
http://www.tnq.in/vishwa.html
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welcome Anand
We have given a grand welcome to our cricket team who won the Twenty 20 world cup.
But in case of Chess we are not giving the enough importance..
please don't ignore this game. it has an old tradition of our heritage.