Viswanathan Anand

posted by   sram (355)   13 months ago (living.oneindia.in)

Born in Chennai on December 11th 1969, Viswanathan Anand beganhis training in chess at the age of six from his motherSusheela. She gave him his first lessons in chess. His fatherViswanathan after whose name Anand is fondly called as Vishy isa railway executive. Destiny crowned him with success at thetender age of fourteen when he won the National Sub JuniorsChampionship in 1983. Since then a strin