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A few days before his 24th birthday in 2013, Norwegian Magnus Carlsen made history by winning the World Chess Championship. He defeated five-time world champion, Viswanathan Anand in the final. emerging as the new world champion. It was a heartbreaking result for Anand, and the pain added on the next year too in 2014 when Carlsen defeated him again. Since ...

By N. Sridhar Indian Chess champion Viswanathan Anand has become a celestial celebrity with his name added to a minor planet referred to till now by its number 4538, thanks to a staffer at the Minor Planet Center. The Minor Planet Center only has the authority to designate new asteroid discoveries and assign numbers to those whose orbits are of ...

Norwegian World chess champion Magnus Carlsen and the Indian challenger Viswanathan Anand on Monday reached draw after fighting for over six hours and making 122 moves in seventh round. The game was one of the longest in the history of world chess championship. At the end of the seventh round, Carlsen was leading the 12-round match with four points to ...

Just Sport: By Veturi Srivatsa Most people will know what Sachin Tendulkar is doing these days, not what Viswanathan Anand is doing to wrest the World Chess Championship from Norwegian Magnus Carlsen. Anand’s supporters feel he was not considered for Bharat Ratna because he is not a cricketer whereas Tendulkar is the darling of the elite as well as the so-called ...