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