Polgár is the only woman to have won a game from a current world number one player, and has defeated nine current or former world champions in either rapid or classical chess: Anatoli Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Boris Spassky, Vasily Smyslov, Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Alexander Khalifman, and Rustam Kasimdzhanov.

Eight grandmasters, all considered contenders for the world championship: Karpov, Anand, Salov, Ivanchuk, Kamsky, Shirov, Ljubojevic and Polgár.

In this knock-out format tournament he defeated Gata Kamsky 1½ – ½, Karpov 2 – 0, Viswanathan Anand 1½ – ½, and finally the World Champion Garry Kasparov 1½ – ½ to win the first prize of approximately 75, 000 USD.

In 1996, he won Amsterdam ( 1st equal with Kasparov ), Vienna ( 1st equal with Gelfand and Karpov ), Novgorod and Dos Hermanas ( 1st – 2nd with Kramnik, ahead of Anand, Kasparov, Illescas, Kamsky, Gelfand, Ivanchuk, Shirov and J. Polgar ).

As early as 1996, he was being invited to " supergrandmaster " events for the world's élite such as Las Palmas ( 5 / 10 ), the first category 21 tournament, played in December 1996, with Kasparov, Anand, Kramnik and Karpov participating.

Topalov has also been similarly denounced by numerous top players, including former World Champions Anatoly Karpov, Boris Spassky, and Viswanathan Anand, grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi, former US Champions Lev Alburt and Yasser Seirawan, and others.

Among his other notable results are first at Terrassa in 1991, joint first at Dos Hermanas in 1995 ( with Kamsky and Karpov ), joint first at Dortmund in 1998 ( with Kramnik and Svidler ) and clear first at Dos Hermanas in 1999, ahead of Kramnik, Anand, Svidler, Karpov, Veselin Topalov, Judit Polgár and others.

Since 1938, there has been a long list of famous winners, including: Max Euwe, Bent Larsen, Tigran Petrosian, Paul Keres, Efim Geller, Lajos Portisch, Boris Spassky, Mikhail Botvinnik, Mikhail Tal, Viktor Korchnoi, Jan Timman, Anatoly Karpov, Vladimir Kramnik, Garry Kasparov, Viswanathan Anand, Veselin Topalov, Levon Aronian, Sergey Karjakin, Magnus Carlsen, and Hikaru Nakamura.

The field, in eventual finishing order, consisted of Karpov, Kasparov, Shirov, Bareev, Kramnik, Lautier, Anand, Kamsky, Topalov, Ivanchuk, Gelfand, Illescas, Judit Polgár, and Beliavsky.

Despite Tarrasch's criticism, many players consider 4. Ng5 White's best chance for an advantage and it has been played by World Champions Wilhelm Steinitz, Bobby Fischer, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, and Viswanathan Anand.

Between 1983 and 2005, he presented the annual live broadcast Chess of the Grandmasters ( Schach der Großmeister ), where players including Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov, Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik competed for the TV Cup.

Lautier is one of only two players ( the others being Vassily Ivanchuk ) to have beaten every World Champion dating back to 1975 ( Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, Alexander Khalifman, Viswanathan Anand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Rustam Kasimdzhanov, and Veselin Topalov ).

Positional pawn sacrifices abound for both sides and the theory is very highly developed, thanks to decades of research by the most elite chess players such as Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov, Viswanathan Anand, Veselin Topalov, Boris Gelfand and countless others.

Polgár finished in clear fifth position in the 12-GM tournament, ahead of Anand, Ivanchuk, Gelfand and Shirov.

A late loss to Viswanathan Anand knocked him out of first place, and Kramnik finished with 8 / 13, tying for second place with Alexei Shirov behind Carlsen's 8½ points.

Under a scoring system of 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss, McShane finished joint second with Anand, behind Carlsen, whom McShane had beaten in their individual encounter, and ahead of Kramnik.

In 1993 he finished equal first ( with Viswanathan Anand ) in the Groningen Interzonal tournament to determine challengers for the PCA World Chess Championship 1995.

He finished in sole second place, ½ point behind the winner, world champion Viswanathan Anand.

Anand finished the tournament with a score of 9 / 14 (+ 4 = 10-0 ).

In December 2010 Nakamura finished fourth in the London Chess Classic, among a field including Anand, Carlsen, Kramnik, Michael Adams, Nigel Short, David Howell, and Luke McShane.

His best results include first in the 1998 Asian Championship, second in the World Junior Chess Championship in 1999, first at Essen 2001, first at Pamplona 2002 ( winning a blitz playoff against Victor Bologan after both had finished the main tournament on 3. 5 / 6 ), first with 8 / 9 at the Vlissingen Open 2003, joint first with Liviu Dieter Nisipeanu with 6 / 9 at Pune 2005, a bronze-medal winning 9. 5 / 12 performance on board one for his country at the 2000 Chess Olympiad and runner-up in the FIDE Chess World Cup in 2002 ( losing to Viswanathan Anand in the final ).

In international competition, he finished second at the 1986 World Junior Championship behind Walter Arencibia but ahead of Evgeny Bareev, Viswanathan Anand and Jeroen Piket.

He finished fourth with 5 / 9, and in the final round memorably demolished World Champion Viswanathan Anand with the black pieces in just 25 moves.

The first official World Chess Champion, Wilhelm Steinitz, claimed his title in 1886 ; the current World Champion is Viswanathan Anand.

The first five and final verses of " Anand Sahib ," the " Song of Bliss ," are recited or sung.

She tied for first with Viswanathan Anand as both scored 11½ out of the 14 games.

Anand became India's first grandmaster in 1987.

Anand is one of six players in history to break the 2800 mark on the FIDE rating list, and in April 2007 at the age of 37, he became the world number one for the first time.

Dalaya's innovation of making skim milk powder from buffalo milk for the first time anywhere in the world and a little later, along with Kurien's help, making it on a commercial scale, led to the first modern dairy of the cooperative at Anand, which would successfully compete against established players in the market.

As the above structure was first evolved at Amul in Gujarat and thereafter replicated all over the country under the Operation Flood Programme, it is known as the ‘ Amul Model ’ or ‘ Anand Pattern ’ of Dairy Cooperatives.

* Corus 2006 ( joint first with Anand )

In 2003 Radjabov defeated Garry Kasparov, Viswanathan Anand, and Ruslan Ponomariov with the black pieces, making him the first player to have beaten three former and reigning FIDE World Chess Champions with black in one year.

In January Radjabov shared first place at the Category 19 Corus Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee with Veselin Topalov and Levon Aronian, ahead of Kramnik and Anand.

Later the same month he shared third in Wijk aan Zee together with World Champion Viswanathan Anand after beating him with white, finishing 0. 5 from first (+ 3-1

After draws in the first two games, Anand won the next two games to take an imposing 3 – 1 lead.

After twelve rounds, Nakamura was in clear first place with 8½ points going into the final round, half a point ahead of Anand and a full point ahead of Carlsen and Aronian.

Anand Nagar was the first of the very large residential complexes to be built in Dahisar Followed by Misquitta Nagar and Avdhooth nagar.

Among his most notable results are 7. 5 / 10 at the 2000 Chess Olympiad ( winning Bronze Medal for board 2 and gaining the highest Elo performance rating at 2803. 7 ) and 7 / 11 at the 2002 Chess Olympiad ; first place in the overall standings at the Amber tournament in 2002, 2004 ( shared with Kramnik ) and 2006 ( shared with Anand ); first place in Biel tournament three times: 2003, 2004 and 2006 ; and twice

A last round victory over Mikhail Gurevich enabled Short to finish equal third with Vishwanathan Anand, behind Vassily Ivanchuk and Boris Gelfand, at the Manila Interzonal, thus qualifying as a Candidate for the third successive time.

Anand Bakshi won his third Filmfare Best Lyricist award after 14 years.

Dev was the third of four sons born to Pishori Lal Anand.

The offices of noted art publication, Marg, established by Mulk Raj Anand in 1946, are also situated in the third floor of the historic Army & Navy Building.

Gelfand was not one of the favourites for the World Chess Championship 2007, but he surprised most observers by finishing joint second with reigning world champion Vladimir Kramnik ( third after tie breaks ); the World Championship was won by Viswanathan Anand.