Viswanathan Anand

Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster, a former five-time World Chess Champion and a record two-time Chess World Cup Champion. ^[1]

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World chess champions

Adrien Demuth

Adrien Demuth (born 14 April 1991) is a French chess grandmaster. Viswanathan Anand and Adrien Demuth are chess Grandmasters.

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Advanced chess

Advanced chess is a form of chess in which each human player uses a computer chess program to explore the possible results of candidate moves.

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Aichi Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū.

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Ajaccio

Ajaccio (French:; Aiaccio or Ajaccio; Aiacciu, locally: Aghjacciu; Adiacium) is the capital and largest city of Corsica, France.

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Alekhine Memorial

The Alekhine Memorial was a recurring chess tournament, organized in different cities and irregular intervals, honoring the former world chess champion Alexander Alekhine.

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Alexander Grischuk

Alexander Igorevich Grischuk (born October 31, 1983) is a Russian chess grandmaster. Viswanathan Anand and Alexander Grischuk are chess Grandmasters.

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Alexander Valeryevich Khalifman (Алекса́ндр Вале́рьевич Халифма́н; born 18 January 1966) is a Russian chess player and writer. Viswanathan Anand and Alexander Khalifman are chess Grandmasters and world chess champions.

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Alexander Morozevich

Alexander Sergeyevich Morozevich (translit; born July 18, 1977) is a Russian chess player. Viswanathan Anand and Alexander Morozevich are chess Grandmasters.

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Alexei Shirov

Alexei Shirov (Aleksejs Širovs; born 4 July 1972) is a Latvian and Spanish chess player. Viswanathan Anand and Alexei Shirov are chess Grandmasters.

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Alexey Dreev

Alexey Sergeyevich Dreev (Алексей Сергеевич Дреев, also transliterated as Aleksey or Alexei; born 30 January 1969) is a Russian chess player. Viswanathan Anand and Alexey Dreev are chess Grandmasters.

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All India Chess Federation

The All India Chess Federation (AICF) is the central administrative body for the game of chess in India.

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Amber chess tournament

The Amber chess tournament (officially the Amber Rapid and Blindfold Chess Tournament, previously Melody Amber) was an annual invitation-only event for some of the world's best players, from 1992 to 2011.

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Anand's Immortal

Anand's Immortal is a chess game played by Levon Aronian as White against Viswanathan Anand as Black in Round 4 of the 2013 Tata Steel Chess Tournament.

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Anatoly Karpov

Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (Анатолий Евгеньевич Карпов,; born May 23, 1951) is a Russian and former Soviet chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, ⁣and politician. Viswanathan Anand and Anatoly Karpov are chess Grandmasters, world Junior Chess Champions and world chess champions.

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Anish Giri

Anish Kumar Giri (अनीश कुमार गिरि; Аниш Кумар Гири; born 28 June 1994) is a Dutch chess grandmaster. Viswanathan Anand and Anish Giri are chess Grandmasters.

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Anton Kovalyov

Anton Kovalyov (born 4 March 1992) is a Ukrainian-born Canadian (formerly representing Argentina) chess grandmaster. Viswanathan Anand and Anton Kovalyov are chess Grandmasters.

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Arjuna Award

The Arjuna Award, officially known as Arjuna Awards given for Outstanding Performance in Sports and Games, is the second-highest sporting honour of India, the highest being the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award. Viswanathan Anand and Arjuna Award are Recipients of the Arjuna Award.

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Arkadij Naiditsch

Arkadij Naiditsch (Arkadi Naydiç; born 25 October 1985) is Latvian-German chess grandmaster who currently represents Bulgaria after previously representing Latvia (until 1997), Germany (1998–2015) and Azerbaijan (2015-2024). Viswanathan Anand and Arkadij Naiditsch are chess Grandmasters.

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Artur Yusupov (chess player)

Artur Mayakovich Yusupov (Арту́р Маякович Юсу́пов; Artur Majakowitsch Jussupow; born February 13, 1960) is a chess grandmaster and a chess writer. Viswanathan Anand and Artur Yusupov (chess player) are chess Grandmasters and world Junior Chess Champions.

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Asian Junior Chess Championship

The Asian Junior Chess Championship is an annual chess tournament open to players in Asia and Oceania (FIDE Zones 3.1 to 3.7) who are under 20 years of age.

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Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and West Asia.

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Ľubomír Ftáčnik

Ľubomír Ftáčnik (born October 30, 1957, in Bratislava) is a Slovak chess grandmaster and a former European Junior Champion. Viswanathan Anand and Ľubomír Ftáčnik are chess Grandmasters and chess writers.

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Bachelor of Commerce

A Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) is an undergraduate degree in business, management, economics or accounting, awarded in Canada, Australia, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Ireland, New Zealand, Ghana, South Africa, Myanmar, Egypt, and additional Commonwealth countries.

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Baden-Baden

Baden-Baden is a spa town in the state of Baden-Württemberg, south-western Germany, at the north-western border of the Black Forest mountain range on the small river Oos, ten kilometres (six miles) east of the Rhine, the border with France, and forty kilometres (twenty-five miles) north-east of Strasbourg, France.

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Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg, commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

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Bartłomiej Macieja

Bartłomiej (Bartek) Macieja (born 4 October 1977) is a Polish chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM). Viswanathan Anand and Bartłomiej Macieja are chess Grandmasters.

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Benjámin Gledura

Benjámin Gledura (born 4 July 1999) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. Viswanathan Anand and Benjámin Gledura are chess Grandmasters.

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Bilbao Chess Masters Final

The Bilbao Chess Masters Final (previously called the Grand Slam Chess Final) is an annual chess tournament which between 2008-12 brought together the strongest players from the previous year's "Grand Slam" events.

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Blindfold chess

Blindfold chess, also known as sans voir, is a form of chess play wherein the players do not see the positions of the pieces and do not touch them.

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Bobby Fischer

Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. Viswanathan Anand and Bobby Fischer are chess Grandmasters and world chess champions.

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Bonn

Bonn is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine.

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Boris Gelfand

Boris Gelfand (בוריס אברמוביץ' גלפנד; Barys Abramavič Heĺfand; Boris Abramovich Gel'fand; born 24 June 1968) is a Belarusian-Israeli chess player. Viswanathan Anand and Boris Gelfand are chess Grandmasters.

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Candidates Tournament

The Candidates Tournament (or in some periods Candidates Matches) is a chess tournament organized by FIDE, chess's international governing body, since 1950, as the final contest to determine the challenger for the World Chess Championship.

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Candidates Tournament 2014

The Candidates Tournament 2014 was an eight-player double round-robin chess tournament that took place in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, from 13 March to 31 March 2014.

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Candidates Tournament 2016

The Candidates Tournament 2016 was an eight-player double round-robin chess tournament, held in Moscow, Russia, from 11 to 30 March 2016.

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Cap d'Agde

Cap d'Agde is a seaside resort on France's Mediterranean coast.

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Catalan Opening

The Catalan Opening is a chess opening where White plays d4 and c4 and fianchettoes the white bishop on g2.

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Central Telegraph

PJSC Central Telegraph (Центральный телеграф) is a Russian telecommunications company which provides different services such as fixed line telephony and internet access, IPTV, rental of communication channels, electrical documentation, integrated business solutions such as IP PBX and video surveillance.

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CG Power and Industrial Solutions

CG Power and Industrial Solutions Limited, also known as Crompton Greaves Limited, is an Indian multinational company engaged in design, manufacturing, and marketing of products related to power generation, transmission, and distribution & Rail Transportation.

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Chennai

Chennai (IAST), formerly known as Madras, is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India.

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Chess Classic

The Chess Classics were chess tournaments initiated by Hans-Walter Schmitt, they were organized in the years 1994 to 2010.

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Chess endgame

The endgame (or ending) is the final stage of a chess game which occurs after the middlegame.

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Chess Oscar

Chess Oscar was an international award given annually to the best chess player.

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Chess tournament

A chess tournament is a series of chess games played competitively to determine a winning individual or team.

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Chess World Cup

The FIDE World Cup is a major chess event organized by FIDE, the international governing body.

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Chess World Cup 2000

The FIDE World Cup 2000 was a 24-player Category XVI chess tournament played between 1 September and 13 September 2000 in Shenyang, China.

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Chess World Cup 2015

The Chess World Cup 2015 was a 128-player single-elimination chess tournament held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 10 September to 5 October 2015.

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Chess.com

Chess.com is an internet chess server and social networking website.

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ChessBase

ChessBase is a German company that develops and sells chess software, maintains a chess news site, and operates an internet chess server for online chess.

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Chessgames.com

Chessgames.com is an Internet chess community with over 224,000 members.

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Classical World Chess Championship 1995

The Classical World Chess Championship 1995, known at the time as the PCA World Chess Championship 1995, was held from September 10, 1995, to October 16, 1995, on the 107th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City.

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Classical World Chess Championship 2000

The Classical World Chess Championship 2000, known at the time as the Braingames World Chess Championships, was held from 8 October 2000 – 4 November 2000 in London, United Kingdom.

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Coimbatore

Coimbatore (Tamil: kōyamputtūr), sometimes shortened as Kovai, is one of the major metropolitan cities in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Corsica

Corsica (Corse; Còrsega) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France.

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COVID-19

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.

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Daniel Fridman

Daniel Fridman (Daniels Fridmans; born February 15, 1976) is a Latvian-German chess player. Viswanathan Anand and Daniel Fridman are chess Grandmasters.

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Daniil Dubov

Daniil Dmitrievich Dubov (Даниил Дмитриевич Дубов; born 18 April 1996) is a Russian chess grandmaster. Viswanathan Anand and Daniil Dubov are chess Grandmasters.

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David Antón Guijarro

David Antón Guijarro (born 23 June 1995) is a Spanish chess grandmaster. Viswanathan Anand and David Antón Guijarro are chess Grandmasters.

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Delhi

Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi (ISO: Rāṣṭrīya Rājadhānī Kṣētra Dillī), is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India.

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Ding Liren

Ding Liren (born 24 October 1992) is a Chinese chess grandmaster and the reigning World Chess Champion. Viswanathan Anand and Ding Liren are chess Grandmasters and world chess champions.

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Dmitry Andreikin

Dmitry Vladimirovich Andreikin (Дмитрий Владимирович Андрейкин, born 5 February 1990) is a Russian chess grandmaster, World Junior Chess Champion in 2010 and two-time Russian Chess Champion (2012 and 2018). Viswanathan Anand and Dmitry Andreikin are chess Grandmasters and world Junior Chess Champions.

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Don Bosco Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Chennai

Don Bosco Matriculation Higher Secondary School is located in Egmore, Chennai.

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Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting

The Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting was until 2020 an elite chess tournament held every summer in Dortmund, Germany.

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Efim Geller

Efim Petrovich Geller (Ефим Петрович Геллер; Юхим Петрович Геллер; 8 March 1925 – 17 November 1998) was a Soviet chess player and world-class grandmaster at his peak. Viswanathan Anand and Efim Geller are chess Grandmasters.

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Elizbar Ubilava

Elizbar Ubilava (born August 27, 1950 in Tbilisi) is a Spanish chess Grandmaster (1988) of Georgian origin. Viswanathan Anand and Elizbar Ubilava are chess Grandmasters.

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Elo rating system

The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess or esports.

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Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings

The Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (ECO) is a reference work describing the state of opening theory in chess, originally published in five volumes from 1974 to 1979 by the Serbian company Šahovski Informator (Chess Informant).

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English Chess Federation

The English Chess Federation (ECF) is the governing chess organisation in England.

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Everyman Chess

Everyman Chess, formerly known as Cadogan Chess, is a major publisher of books and CDs about chess.

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Evgeny Tomashevsky

Evgeny Yuryevich Tomashevsky (Евгений Юрьевич Томашевский; born 1 July 1987) is a Russian chess player. Viswanathan Anand and Evgeny Tomashevsky are chess Grandmasters.

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Fabiano Caruana

Fabiano Luigi Caruana (born July 30, 1992) is an Italian and American chess grandmaster who is the reigning three-time United States Chess Champion. Viswanathan Anand and Fabiano Caruana are chess Grandmasters.

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Fast chess

Fast chess, also known as speed chess, is a type of chess in which each player is given less time to consider their moves than classical chess time controls allow.

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FIDE

The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs), is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national chess federations and acts as the governing body of international chess competition.

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FIDE Grand Prix 2012–13

The FIDE Grand Prix 2012–13 was a series of six chess tournaments that formed part of the qualification cycle for the World Chess Championship 2014.

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FIDE titles

FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs) for outstanding performance.

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FIDE World Chess Championship 1996

The FIDE World Chess Championship 1996 was a chess tournament held by FIDE to determine the World Chess Champion.

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FIDE World Chess Championship 1999

The FIDE World Chess Championship 1999 was held at Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip between 31 July and 28 August 1999.

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FIDE World Chess Championship 2000

The FIDE World Chess Championship 2000 was held in New Delhi, India, and Tehran, Iran.

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FIDE World Chess Championship 2005

The FIDE World Chess Championship 2005 took place in Potrero de los Funes, San Luis Province in Argentina from September 27 to October 16, 2005.

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Fischer random chess

Fischer random chess, also known as Chess960 ('chess nine-sixty'), is a variation of the game of chess invented by the former world chess champion Bobby Fischer.

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Francisco Vallejo Pons

Francisco Vallejo Pons (born 21 August 1982) is a Spanish chess grandmaster. Viswanathan Anand and Francisco Vallejo Pons are chess Grandmasters.

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Gambit Publications

Gambit Publications is a major publisher of chess books.

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Garry Kasparov

Garry Kimovich Kasparov (born Garik Kimovich Weinstein on 13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion (1985–2000), political activist and writer. Viswanathan Anand and Garry Kasparov are chess Grandmasters, world Junior Chess Champions and world chess champions.

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Gata Kamsky

Gata Kamsky (italics; Гата Камский; born June 2, 1974) is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster, and a five-time U.S. champion. Viswanathan Anand and Gata Kamsky are chess Grandmasters.

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Georg Meier (chess player)

Georg Meier (born August 26, 1987) is a German-Uruguayan chess grandmaster who represents Uruguay. Viswanathan Anand and Georg Meier (chess player) are chess Grandmasters.

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Glossary of chess

This glossary of chess explains commonly used terms in chess, in alphabetical order.

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Government of India

The Government of India (IAST: Bhārat Sarkār, legally the Union Government or Union of India and colloquially known as the Central Government) is the central executive authority of the Republic of India, a federal republic located in South Asia, consisting of 28 states and eight union territories.

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Grand Chess Tour

The Grand Chess Tour (GCT) is a circuit of chess tournaments where players compete for multiple prize pools.

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Grandmaster (chess)

Grandmaster (GM) is a title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Viswanathan Anand and Grandmaster (chess) are chess Grandmasters.

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Grünfeld Defence

The Grünfeld Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: Black offers White the possibility of 4.cxd5, which may be followed by 4...Nxd5 and 5.e4, giving White an imposing duo.

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Grenke Chess Classic

Grenke Chess Classic is an annual chess tournament held in the German cities of Karlsruhe and Baden-Baden and sponsored by Grenke AG.

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Groningen

Groningen (Grunn or Grunnen) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands.

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Gujarat University

The Gujarat University is a public state university located at Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

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Hachette India

Hachette India is the Indian arm of the publishing company Hachette, which is owned by the French group, Lagardère Publishing.

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Harika Dronavalli

Harika Dronavalli (born 12 January 1991) is an Indian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM). Viswanathan Anand and Harika Dronavalli are chess Grandmasters, Indian chess players, Recipients of the Arjuna Award and world Junior Chess Champions.

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Hikaru Nakamura

Christopher Hikaru Nakamura, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, December 7, 2022 (born December 9, 1987) is an American chess grandmaster, streamer, YouTuber, five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the reigning World Fischer Random Chess Champion. Viswanathan Anand and Hikaru Nakamura are chess Grandmasters.

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Hindustan Times

Hindustan Times is an Indian English-language daily newspaper based in Delhi.

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Hyatt Regency Chennai

Hyatt Regency Chennai is an 18-storey five-star luxury hotel located on Anna Salai at Teynampet in Chennai, India.

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Ian Nepomniachtchi

Ian Alexandrovich Nepomniachtchi (a; born 14 July 1990) is a Russian chess grandmaster. Viswanathan Anand and Ian Nepomniachtchi are chess Grandmasters.

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India Today

India Today is a weekly Indian English-language news magazine published by Living Media India Limited.

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Indian Chess Championship

The National Premier Chess Championship is the annual national chess championship of India.

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International Olympic Committee

The International Olympic Committee (IOC; Comité international olympique, CIO) is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Interzonal chess tournaments

Interzonal chess tournaments were tournaments organized by the World Chess Federation FIDE from the 1950s to the 1990s.

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J. Jayalalithaa

Jayaram Jayalalithaa (24 February 1948 – 5 December 2016) was an Indian politician and actress who served as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for more than fourteen years over six terms between 1991 and 2016.

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Jamalpur, Bihar

Jamalpur is a city in the Indian state of Bihar.

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Jan Smeets

Jan Smeets (born 5 April 1985) is a Dutch chess grandmaster. Viswanathan Anand and Jan Smeets are chess Grandmasters.

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Jon Ludvig Hammer

Jon Ludvig Nilssen Hammer (born 2 June 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster and three-time Norwegian Chess Champion. Viswanathan Anand and Jon Ludvig Hammer are chess Grandmasters.

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Judit Polgár

Judit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster, widely regarded as the strongest female chess player of all time. Viswanathan Anand and Judit Polgár are chess Grandmasters.

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Kapil Sibal

Kapil Sibal (born 8 August 1948) is an Indian lawyer and politician.

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Kazan

Kazan is the largest city and capital of Tatarstan, Russia.

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Kenzo Suzuki (astronomer)

is a Japanese astronomer from Toyota, Aichi, Japan.

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Khanty-Mansiysk

Khanty-Mansiysk (Khánty-Mansíysk, lit. Khanty-Mansi Town; Khanty: Ёмвоҷ, Jomvoćś; Mansi: Абга, Abga) is a city in west-central Russia.

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Khel Ratna Award

The Khel Ratna Award, officially known as the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award (Major Dhyan Chand Sport Jewel Award) or formerly known as the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, is the highest sporting honour of India.

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King (chess)

The king (♔, ♚) is the most important piece in the game of chess.

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Kolkata

Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Koneru Humpy

Koneru Humpy (born 31 March 1987) is an Indian chess player best known for winning the FIDE Women's rapid chess championship in 2019. Viswanathan Anand and Koneru Humpy are chess Grandmasters, Indian chess players, Recipients of the Arjuna Award and world Junior Chess Champions.

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Las Palmas

Las Palmas, officially Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is a Spanish city and capital of Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Lausanne

Lausanne (Losena) is the capital and largest city of the Swiss French-speaking canton of Vaud.

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León, Spain

León is a city and municipality of Spain, capital of the province of León, part of the autonomous community of Castile and León, in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Leuven

Leuven, also called Louvain (Löwen), is the capital and largest city of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region of Belgium.

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Levon Aronian

Levon Grigori Aronian (Levon Grigori Aronyan; born 6 October 1982) is an Armenian-American chess grandmaster. Viswanathan Anand and Levon Aronian are chess Grandmasters and world Junior Chess Champions.

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Li Chao (chess player)

Li Chao (born 21 April 1989 in Taiyuan, Shanxi) is a Chinese chess Grandmaster and Asian champion in 2013. Viswanathan Anand and Li Chao (chess player) are chess Grandmasters.

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Linares International Chess Tournament

The Linares International Chess Tournament (Spanish: Torneo Internacional de Ajedrez Ciudad de Linares) was an annual chess tournament, usually played around the end of February, which takes its name from the city of Linares in the Jaén province of Andalusia, Spain, in which it was held.

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Linares, Jaén

Linares is a municipality of Spain belonging to the province of Jaén, Andalusia.

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List of chess games between Anand and Kramnik

Viswanathan Anand (born 11 December 1969) and Vladimir Kramnik (born 25 June 1975) have played 93 classical chess games, of which Kramnik won eleven, Anand won eleven, and 71 games were drawn.

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List of chess players by peak FIDE rating

This list of top-ranked chess grandmasters is ordered by their peak Elo rating.

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List of FIDE chess world number ones

A total of seven chess players have been the chess world number one on the official FIDE rating list since it was first published in July 1971.

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London Chess Classic

The London Chess Classic is a chess festival held at the Olympia Conference Centre, West Kensington, London.

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Loyola College, Chennai

Loyola College is a private Catholic higher education institution run by the Society of Jesus in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

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Lubomir Kavalek

Lubomir (Lubosh) Kavalek (Lubomír Kaválek, August 9, 1943 – January 18, 2021) was a Czech-American chess player. Viswanathan Anand and Lubomir Kavalek are chess Grandmasters.

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Magnus Carlsen

Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen (born 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster. Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen are chess Grandmasters and world chess champions.

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Manila

Manila (Maynila), officially the City of Manila (Lungsod ng Maynila), is the capital and second-most-populous city of the Philippines after Quezon City.

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Manmohan Singh

Manmohan Singh (born 26 September 1932) is an Indian retired politician, economist, academician and bureaucrat who served as the Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014.

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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (born 21 October 1990), often referred to by his initials, MVL, is a French chess grandmaster who is a former World Blitz Champion. Viswanathan Anand and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave are chess Grandmasters and world Junior Chess Champions.

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Mayiladuthurai

Mayiladuthurai (formerly known as Mayavaram or Mayuram) is a Special grade Municipality and district headquarter of Mayiladuthurai district in Tamil Nadu, India.

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Mexico City

Mexico City (Ciudad de México,; abbr.: CDMX; Central Nahuatl:,; Otomi) is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America.

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Michael Adams (chess player)

Michael Adams (born 17 November 1971) is an English chess grandmaster and is an eight-time British Chess Champion. Viswanathan Anand and Michael Adams (chess player) are chess Grandmasters.

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Miguel Illescas

Miguel Illescas Córdoba (born December 3, 1965, in Barcelona) is a Spanish chess grandmaster. Viswanathan Anand and Miguel Illescas are chess Grandmasters.

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Mikhail Botvinnik

Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik (– May 5, 1995) was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster who held five world titles in three different reigns. Viswanathan Anand and Mikhail Botvinnik are chess Grandmasters and world chess champions.

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Mikhail Tal

Mikhail Nekhemyevich Tal (9 November 1936 – 28 June 1992) was a Soviet and Latvian chess player and the eighth World Chess Champion. Viswanathan Anand and Mikhail Tal are chess Grandmasters and world chess champions.

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Ministry of Education (India)

The Ministry of Education (MoE) is a ministry of the Government of India, responsible for the implementation of the National Policy on Education.

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MSN

MSN (meaning Microsoft Network) is an American web portal and related collection of Internet services and apps for Windows and mobile devices, provided by Microsoft and launched on August 24, 1995, alongside the release of Windows 95.

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NASSCOM

National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) is an Indian non-governmental trade association and advocacy group that primarily serves the Indian technology industry.

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New Delhi

New Delhi (ISO: Naī Dillī), is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT).

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Nihal Sarin

Nihal Sarin (born 13 July 2004) is an Indian chess grandmaster and chess prodigy. Viswanathan Anand and Nihal Sarin are chess Grandmasters and Indian chess players.

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Norm (chess)

A norm in chess is a high level of performance in a chess tournament.

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Norway Chess

Norway Chess is an annual closed chess tournament, typically taking place in the May to June time period every year.

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Oleg Romanishin

Oleg Mikhailovich Romanishin (translit; born 10 January 1952) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster and former European junior champion. Viswanathan Anand and Oleg Romanishin are chess Grandmasters.

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Olympic Gold Quest

Olympic Gold Quest (OGQ) is a program of the Foundation for Promotion of Sports and Games, a not for profit (Section 25) company, which sponsors Indian Olympic athletes and Paralympic Athletes.

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Order of Friendship

The Order of Friendship (Орден Дружбы, Orden Druzhby) is a state decoration of the Russian Federation established by Boris Yeltsin by presidential decree 442 of 2 March 1994 to reward Russian and foreign nationals whose work, deeds and efforts have been aimed at the betterment of relations with the Russian Federation and its people.

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Padma Bhushan

The Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award in the Republic of India, preceded by the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan and followed by the Padma Shri.

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Padma Shri

The Padma Shri (IAST: padma śrī), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan.

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Padma Vibhushan

The Padma Vibhushan ("Lotus Decoration") is the second-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna.

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Performance rating (chess)

Performance rating (abbreviated as Rp) in chess is the level a player performed at in a tournament or match based on the number of games played, their total score in those games, and the Elo ratings of their opponents.

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Peter Leko

Peter Leko (Lékó Péter; born September 8, 1979) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster and commentator. Viswanathan Anand and Peter Leko are chess Grandmasters.

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Peter Svidler

Pyotr Veniaminovich Svidler (Пётр Вениами́нович Сви́длер; born 17 June 1976), commonly known as Peter Svidler, is a Russian chess grandmaster and commentator who is an eight-time Russian Chess Champion. Viswanathan Anand and Peter Svidler are chess Grandmasters.

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Philippine National Railways

The Philippine National Railways (PNR) (Pambansang Daambakal ng Pilipinas; Ferrocarril Nacional de Filipinas) is a state-owned railway company in the Philippines which operates one commuter rail service between Laguna and Quezon, and local services between Sipocot, Naga and Legazpi in the Bicol Region.

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Professional Chess Association

The Professional Chess Association (PCA), which existed between 1993 and 1996, was a rival organisation to FIDE, the international chess organization.

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Queen's Gambit Declined

The Queen's Gambit Declined (or QGD) is a chess opening in which Black declines a pawn offered by White in the Queen's Gambit: This is known as the Orthodox Line of the Queen's Gambit Declined.

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R Praggnanandhaa

Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa (born 10 August 2005) is an Indian chess prodigy and chess grandmaster. Viswanathan Anand and r Praggnanandhaa are chess Grandmasters, Indian chess players, Recipients of the Arjuna Award and Tamil sportspeople.

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Rahul Bose

Rahul Bose (born 27 July 1967) is an Indian actor and athlete who primarily works in Hindi films.

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Raymond Keene

Raymond Dennis Keene (born 29 January 1948) is an English chess grandmaster, a FIDE International Arbiter, a chess organiser, and a journalist and author. Viswanathan Anand and Raymond Keene are chess Grandmasters.

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Rediff.com

Rediff.com, stylized as rediff.com, is an Indian news, information, entertainment, and shopping website.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Round-robin tournament

A round-robin tournament or all-play-all tournament is a competition format in which each contestant meets every other participant, usually in turn.

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Rules of chess

The rules of chess (also known as the laws of chess) govern the play of the game of chess.

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Ruslan Ponomariov

Ruslan Olehovych Ponomariov (Русла́н Оле́гович Пономарьо́в; born 11 October 1983) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. Viswanathan Anand and Ruslan Ponomariov are chess Grandmasters and world chess champions.

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Russian Museum

The State Russian Museum (Государственный Русский музей), formerly known as the Russian Museum of His Imperial Majesty Alexander III (Русский Музей Императора Александра III), on Arts Square in Saint Petersburg, is the world's largest depository of Russian fine art.

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Rustam Kasimdzhanov

Rustam Kasimdzhanov (born 5 December 1979) is an Uzbek chess grandmaster and former FIDE World Champion (2004-05). He was Asian champion in 1998. Viswanathan Anand and Rustam Kasimdzhanov are chess Grandmasters and world chess champions.

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Ruy Lopez

The Ruy Lopez, also called the Spanish Opening or Spanish Game, is a chess opening characterised by the moves: The Ruy Lopez is named after 16th-century Spanish priest Ruy López de Segura.

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Sacrifice (chess)

In chess, a sacrifice is a move that gives up a piece with the objective of gaining tactical or positional compensation in other forms.

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Saint Louis Chess Club

The Saint Louis Chess Club (previously named the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis) is a chess club located in the Central West End in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.

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Semi-Slav Defense

The Semi-Slav Defense is a variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined chess opening defined by the position reached after the moves: The position may readily be reached by a number of different.

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Sergey Karjakin

Sergey Alexandrovich Karjakin (born 12 January 1990) is a Russian chess grandmaster. Viswanathan Anand and Sergey Karjakin are chess Grandmasters.

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Shakhriyar Mamedyarov

Shahriyar Hamid oghlu Mammadyarov (Şəhriyar Həmid oğlu Məmmədyarov; born 12 April 1985), known internationally as Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster. Viswanathan Anand and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov are chess Grandmasters and world Junior Chess Champions.

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Shamkir (city)

Shamkir (Şəmkir), known historically as Annenfeld, is a city in and the capital of Shamkir District in western Azerbaijan, located in the northern foothills of the Lesser Caucasus, on the coast of the Chagirchay River on Tbilisi-Yevlakh highway, about from Dallar railway station.

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Shamkir Chess

Gashimov Memorial is a chess supertournament played in Azerbaijan in memory of Vugar Gashimov (24th July 1986– 11th January 2014).

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Sicilian Defence

The Sicilian Defence is a chess opening that begins with the following moves: The Sicilian is the most popular and best-scoring response to White's first move 1.e4.

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Sicilian Defence, Dragon Variation

In chess, the Dragon Variation is one of the main lines of the Sicilian Defence and begins with the moves: In the Dragon, Black's bishop is fianchettoed on g7, castling on the king's side while aiming the bishop at the center and.

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Sicilian Defence, Najdorf Variation

The Najdorf Variation of the Sicilian Defence is one of the most popular, reputable, and deeply studied of all chess openings.

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Simultaneous exhibition

A simultaneous exhibition or simultaneous display is a board game exhibition (commonly chess or Go) in which one player (typically of high rank, such as a grandmaster or dan-level player) plays multiple games at a time with a number of other players.

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Single-elimination tournament

A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden-death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament.

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Sinquefield Cup

The Sinquefield Cup is an annual, closed chess tournament in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, honoring Rex Sinquefield and his wife Jeanne, the founders of the Saint Louis Chess Club.

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Smbat Lputian

Smbat Gariginovich Lputian (also transliterated as Lputyan; Սմբատ Լպուտյան; born 14 February 1958) is an Armenian chess grandmaster. Viswanathan Anand and Smbat Lputian are chess Grandmasters.

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Sochi

Sochi (a, from Шъуача – seaside) is the largest resort city in Russia.

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Sonneborn–Berger score

The Sonneborn–Berger score (or the Neustadtl score or rarely Neustadtl Sonneborn–Berger score) is a scoring system often used to break ties in chess tournaments.

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Southern Railway zone

Southern Railway (SR) is one of the eighteen zones of Indian Railways.

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St. Louis

St.

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Stavanger

Stavanger (US usually) is a city and municipality in Norway.

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Swiss-system tournament

A Swiss-system tournament is a non-eliminating tournament format that features a fixed number of rounds of competition, but considerably fewer than for a round-robin tournament; thus each competitor (team or individual) does not play all the other competitors.

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Tashkent

Tashkent, or Toshkent in Uzbek, is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan.

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Tata Steel Chess Tournament

The Tata Steel Chess Tournament is an annual chess tournament held in January in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands.

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Tbilisi

Tbilisi (თბილისი), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis, (tr) is the capital and largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of around 1.2 million people.

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Tehran

Tehran (تهران) or Teheran is the capital and largest city of Iran as well as the largest in Tehran Province.

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Teimour Radjabov

Teimour Boris oghlu Radjabov (also spelled Teymur Rajabov; Teymur Boris oğlu Rəcəbov,; born 12 March 1987) is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster. Viswanathan Anand and Teimour Radjabov are chess Grandmasters.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The exchange (chess)

In chess, the exchange is the difference of a rook for a (i.e. a bishop or knight).

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The Hindu

The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

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The Indian Express

The Indian Express is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932 by Ramnath Goenka with an investment by capitalist partner Raja Mohan Prasad.

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The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category.

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The Telegraph (India)

The Telegraph is an Indian English daily newspaper founded and continuously published in Kolkata since 7 July 1982.

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The Times of India

The Times of India, also known by its abbreviation TOI, is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group.

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Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki (Θεσσαλονίκη), also known as Thessalonica, Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece, with slightly over one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of Macedonia, the administrative region of Central Macedonia and the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace.

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Tretyakov Gallery

The State Tretyakov Gallery (Gosudarstvennaya Tretyakovskaya Galereya; abbreviated ГТГ, GTG) is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, which is considered the foremost depository of Russian fine art in the world.

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Trompowsky Attack

The Trompowsky Attack is a chess opening that begins with the moves: White prepares to exchange the bishop for Black's knight, inflicting doubled pawns upon Black in the process.

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Tuileries Garden

The Tuileries Garden (Jardin des Tuileries) is a public garden between the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France.

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University of Hyderabad

The University of Hyderabad (IAST: Hydarābād visvavidyālayamu) is a public central research university located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India.

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University of Michigan

The University of Michigan (U-M, UMich, or simply Michigan) is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a doubly landlocked country located in Central Asia.

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Vasyl Ivanchuk

Vasyl Mykhailovych Ivanchuk (Василь Михайлович Іванчук; born March 18, 1969), is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. Viswanathan Anand and Vasyl Ivanchuk are chess Grandmasters.

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Veselin Topalov

Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov (pronounced; Весели́н Алексáндров Топа́лов; born 15 March 1975) is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster and former FIDE World Chess Champion. Viswanathan Anand and Veselin Topalov are chess Grandmasters and world chess champions.

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Victor Bologan

Victor (Viorel) Bologan (born 14 December 1971) is a Moldovan chess player and author. Viswanathan Anand and Victor Bologan are chess Grandmasters and chess writers.

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Vladimir Fedoseev

Vladimir Vasilyevich Fedoseev (Влади́мир Васи́льевич Федосе́ев; born 16 February 1995) is a Russian chess grandmaster playing for Slovenia. Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Fedoseev are chess Grandmasters.

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Vladimir Kramnik

Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (Влади́мир Бори́сович Кра́мник; born 25 June 1975) is a Russian chess grandmaster. Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik are chess Grandmasters and world chess champions.

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Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is the president of Russia.

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Wang Hao (chess player)

Wang Hao (born August 4, 1989) is a Chinese chess grandmaster. Viswanathan Anand and Wang Hao (chess player) are chess Grandmasters.

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Wei Yi

Wei Yi (born 2 June 1999) is a Chinese chess grandmaster. Viswanathan Anand and Wei Yi are chess Grandmasters.

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Wesley So

Wesley Barbossa So (born October 9, 1993) is a Filipino and American chess grandmaster, a three-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the first World Fischer Random Chess Champion. Viswanathan Anand and Wesley So are chess Grandmasters.

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Wijk aan Zee

Wijk aan Zee (literally Neighborhood at Sea) is a village on the coast of the North Sea in the municipality of Beverwijk, the province of North Holland of the Netherlands.

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World Blitz Chess Championship

The World Blitz Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under blitz time controls.

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World Chess Championship

The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess.

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World Chess Championship 1993

The World Chess Championship 1993 was one of the most controversial matches in chess history, with incumbent World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov, and official challenger Nigel Short, splitting from FIDE, the official world governing body of chess, and playing their title match under the auspices of the Professional Chess Association.

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World Chess Championship 2006

The World Chess Championship 2006 was a match between Classical World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik and FIDE World Chess Champion Veselin Topalov.

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World Chess Championship 2007

The World Chess Championship 2007 was held in Mexico City, from 12 September 2007 to 30 September 2007 to decide the world champion of the game of chess.

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World Chess Championship 2008

The World Chess Championship 2008 was a best-of-twelve-games match between the incumbent World Chess Champion, Viswanathan Anand, and the previous World Champion, Vladimir Kramnik.

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World Chess Championship 2010

The World Chess Championship 2010 match pitted the defending world champion, Viswanathan Anand, against challenger Veselin Topalov, for the title of World Chess Champion.

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World Chess Championship 2013

The World Chess Championship 2013 was a match between reigning world champion Viswanathan Anand and challenger Magnus Carlsen, to determine the World Chess Champion.

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World Junior Chess Championship

The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 chess tournament (players must have been under 20 years old on 1 January in the year of competition) organized by the World Chess Federation (FIDE).

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World Rapid Chess Championship

The World Rapid Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under rapid time controls.

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World Trade Center (1973–2001)

The original World Trade Center (WTC) was a large complex of seven buildings in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City.

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Zoltán Almási

Zoltán Almási (born August 29, 1976) is a Hungarian chess player. Viswanathan Anand and Zoltán Almási are chess Grandmasters.

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Zugzwang

Zugzwang is a situation found in chess and other turn-based games wherein one player is put at a disadvantage because of their obligation to make a move; a player is said to be "in zugzwang" when any legal move will worsen their position.

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Zurich Chess Challenge

The Zurich Chess Challenge (ZCC) is one of the major recurring international chess tournaments, combining rapid chess with classical or blitz chess.

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2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull

Between March and June 2010 a series of volcanic events at Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland caused enormous disruption to air travel across Western Europe.

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26th Chess Olympiad

The 26th Chess Olympiad (Η 26η Σκακιστική Ολυμπιάδα, I 26i Skakistikí Olympiáda), organized by FIDE and comprising an open and a women's tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between November 18 and December 5, 1984, in Thessaloniki, Greece.

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64 (magazine)

64 is a Russian chess magazine and draughts publication, published in Moscow.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viswanathan_Anand

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