“To become a world chess champion.”
Viswanathan Anand (1969) Indian chess player
At the age of six when some one asked him as to what he wanted to become.
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“People knew about 110 years of chess history. Nowadays, nobody is able to tell you the name of the world champion of 2000.”
Interview on Chessbase 06.07.2005 http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2495
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