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Viswanathan Anand
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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Viswanathan Anand 1969-, Indian chess player. India's youngest national champion at the age of 16, he won the world junior championship and earned the title of grandmaster in 1987. Anand achieved international chess fame in 1991 when he won a tournament that included both the then-world champion Gary
Kasparov
and the former title holder Anatoly
Karpov
. After narrowly losing (1998) an International Chess Federation (FIDE) championship match to Karpov, Anand won the championship ...