Viswanathan Anand: Quotes about the world

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“A [world title] match has that feeling much more strongly because it's the same guy doing it over and over and over … When you play a single person, it becomes narrower because you are so focused on each other. It is a lot more personal.”

Viswanathan Anand

Game of thrones with world chess champion Viswanathan Anand

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“Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion.”

Viswanathan Anand

Quotations by 60 Greatest Indians, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/eresources/iresources/quotations.html,

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“I can relate to many of the emotions they describe…But personally I just like to get on with the job of playing chess. I understand that if I win, I'm probably crushing my opponent's ego but it's not like I do that with great satisfaction. So I don't really look for conflict around the game … It's true that someone like Kasparov has this sense of history, and I'm talking world history rather than chess history. He has a sense of himself being in it, which, for me, is very hard to understand or even relate to in any way.”

Viswanathan Anand

Game of thrones with world chess champion Viswanathan Anand

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“…in 2000, when I defeated Alexei Shirov at the World Chess Championship in Teheran to become the first Indian ever to win the title.”

Viswanathan Anand

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Reimagining India: Unlocking the Potential of Asia’s Next Superpower

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“I have what I think is an extremely Indian relationship with God…. In Moscow before the tie breaker of the World Championship in May 2012, I again entreated God:Just stay on my side of the board.”

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Reimagining India: Unlocking the Potential of Asia’s Next Superpower

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“To become a world chess champion.”

Viswanathan Anand

At the age of six when some one asked him as to what he wanted to become.
Reimagining India: Unlocking the Potential of Asia’s Next Superpower

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