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.

Anand won the tournament in a tie-break game over Polgár.

Polgár tied with Boris Gelfand with 9½ points and won her individual game against Viswanathan Anand, at the time the world's No. 2 player.

Finally, two games were played as regular tournament games ( forty moves in two hours, one hour sudden death ); here it was Anand who won ½ – 1½.

In 2007, Kramnik lost the title to Viswanathan Anand, who won the World Chess Championship tournament ahead of Kramnik.

The tournament, and the world championship, was won by Viswanathan Anand.

Anand won the match 6½-5½ to retain the title.

The current world champion is Viswanathan Anand, who won the World Chess Championship 2007 and successfully defended his title against former world champion Vladimir Kramnik in the World Chess Championship 2008, against Veselin Topalov in the World Chess Championship 2010 and against Boris Gelfand in the World Chess Championship 2012.

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

Anand has won the World Chess Championship five times ( 2000, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012 ), and has been the undisputed World Champion since 2007.

Lubomir Kavalek describes Anand as the most versatile world champion ever, since Anand is the only player to have won the world chess championships in many formats including Tournament, Match, Rapid, and Knockout chess.

Anand has won the Chess Oscar 6 times ( 1997, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008 ).

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 ).

Topalov won that match 4½ – 2½ and qualified to play against the current world champion Viswanathan Anand for the World Chess Champion title.

This tournament included most of the world's top players ( Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik and Gata Kamsky were the only notable absentees ), and Adams won short matches against Tamaz Giorgadze, Sergei Tiviakov, Peter Svidler, Loek van Wely and Nigel Short, before coming up against Anand in the final round.

Their four games at normal time controls were all drawn, as were four rapidplay games at quicker time limits, before Anand won the sudden-death game, thereby eliminating Adams from the competition.

Viswanathan Anand is the only player to have won five titles of the Hoogovens / Corus chess tournament in its long history, though three of these were shared wins.

He won 2 – 0 over Viswanathan Anand ( 2003 FIDE World Rapid Chess Champion, 2004 Amber Rapid Chess Champion, 2007 FIDE Classical World Champion ) in the semi finals.

Many have noted that Saha-Union Group, which Anand chaired, won a major bid to build a large coal-fired power plant while Anand was in power.

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

The PCA candidates cycle was won by the Indian GM Viswanathan Anand.

The event was won by Kasparov ahead of Kramnik, Anand and Leko.

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

He then participated in the Grand Slam Chess Masters preliminary tournament in Shanghai from September 3 to 8, where he faced world # 4 Levon Aronian, Alexei Shirov, and Wang Hao ; the top two scorers qualified for the Grand Slam final supertournament from October 9 to 15 in Bilbao against Carlsen and Anand.

Following the Olympiad, Kramnik participated in the Grand Slam Chess Masters final in Bilbao where he competed against Anand, Carlsen and Shirov.

In 2000, Shirov reached the final of the FIDE World Chess Championship, losing 3. 5 – 0. 5 to Viswanathan Anand.

In September 2010, Shirov participated in the Grand Slam Chess Masters preliminary tournament in Shanghai from September 3 to 8, where he faced world # 4 Levon Aronian, world # 5 Vladimir Kramnik, and Wang Hao ; the top two scorers qualified for the Grand Slam final supertournament from October 9 to 15 in Bilbao against world # 1 Magnus Carlsen and world champion Viswanathan Anand.

In the March 1995 final against Anand in Las Palmas, the FIDE result was reversed, with Kamsky losing (+ 1 = 7 − 3 ).

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.

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 ).

" His inability to become World Champion despite his immense talent and longevity among the chess elite has been attributed to his admittedly poor nerves, which have been exposed during the high-tension atmosphere of World Championship match-format tournaments, such as in 2002 where he was heavily favored in the FIDE championship final after having defeated defending champion Viswanathan Anand in the semifinals, only to lose to countryman Ruslan Ponomariov in a significant upset, denying him the World Championship.

It was this line that Viswanathan Anand chose in the final game of the World Chess Championship 2010 in order to defeat Veselin Topalov and retain the world championship.

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.

In the final, he faced 2009 Chess World Cup champion Boris Gelfand for the right to play Viswanathan Anand in 2012 for the World Championship.

She formed a popular screen couple with co-star Dev Anand and the two acted in four films together-Paying Guest ( 1957 ), Baarish ( 1957 ), Manzil ( 1960 ) and Tere Ghar Ke Samne ( 1963 ).

( The World Chess Championship was split at the time, but most of the strongest players participated, the most notable exceptions being the world's top two, Garry Kasparov and Viswanathan Anand ).

" Anand then runs away forcing his wife and two children into destitute poverty.

As a result of these and other factors, many of the players who were invited to take part in the tournament-including world number two Viswanathan Anand, and number six Peter Svidler-declined.

He resurrected a Central Committee including himself, the PCRC secretary Harbhajan Sohi and two leaders from Andhra ( Madhu and Anand ), which was to function until a regular conference would be held.

Apart from Dev Anand and Rajesh Khanna, she also made a popular screen team with actor Rishi Kapoor, since they were paired romantically in six films, of which two were hits Subhash Ghai's Karz and Katilon Ke Kaatil.

Also, it was played three times by Vladimir Kramnik in the World Chess Championship 2006 and four times by Viswanathan Anand in the World Chess Championship 2010 ; in both instances the opponent was Veselin Topalov, and in each instance White scored two more points than Black.

More recently the Slav has been adopted by Anand, Ivanchuk, Lautier, Short, and other top grandmasters, including use in six of the eight games that Vladimir Kramnik played as Black in the 2006 World Championship ( in the other two, he played the related Semi-Slav Defense ).

One very remarkable feat achieved by Madan Mohan was that at least two of the songs from the film Sharabi for which he composed the music, namely " Sawan ke maheeney mein " and the more famous classic song " Kabhi na Kabhi koi na koi toh aayega ", both filmed on Dev Anand are among the most famous and well known renditions of the renowned singer Mohammad Rafi.

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 ).

Govinda has six nephews and two nieces in the entertainment industry: actors Vinay Anand, Krushna Abhishek, Aryan, Arjun Singh, Ragini Khanna, Amit Khanna, Aarti Singh and director Janmendra Kumar Ahuja.

Viswanathan Anand won two games with Black in his World Chess Championship 2008 match with Vladimir Kramnik.

It is here that Guru Dutt met two people who would remain his good friends-actors Rehman and Dev Anand.

Guru Dutt and Dev Anand would make two super-hit films together, Baazi, and Jaal.