After a rocky start to the year, D Gukesh impressed at Norway Chess 2025 with notable wins—prompting mentor Viswanathan Anand ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria — Viswanathan Anand of India retained his world chess title today by winning with black against Bulgarian challenger Veselin Topalov. The score was 5.5-5.5 before the last game ...

Gukesh's dreams, he said, were fueled by Viswanathan Anand's loss to Magnus Carlsen in the World Championship match in Chennai in 2013. "11 years ago, the title was taken away from India.

League Play Pays Off for a Former Champ, Too. Viswanathan Anand has a special relationship with Germany’s Budesliga, a lucrative source of income for players trying to earn a living at chess.

The past year, and the enforced break, have led Viswanathan Anand to new experiences -- extended family time, coaching and mentorship roles, a biopic in the works, designing the blueprint for a ...

Viswanathan Anand last competed at the chess World Championship a decade ago. These days, he's not a regular player on the FIDE circuit either. Yet, in the first week of the World Championships in ...

But the sight of Garry at the board evokes memories from exactly a quarter-century ago, when Kasparov defended his title in a stirring clash with Indian GM Viswanathan Anand, a match played on the ...

Five-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand, who mentors Gukesh, was asked by Chess.com to grade the teenager's performance ...

Viswanathan Anand won all 22 games against the players, ... Midtown and Upstep Academy at KORUM Mall here, proved to be a demonstration of strategy and analytical aspects of the game of chess.

Viswanathan Anand felt his chess abilities were on the wane by the time he won his fifth world championship, defeating Boris Gelfand. ... However, in game 8, Anand won in only 17 moves, ...

When you think of Indian chess and any firsts associated with it, the architect behind it is invariably Viswanathan Anand. India's first grandmaster, India's only world champion till date, and ...