Anand:

Move by Move

Zenon Franco

• Publisher: Popular Chess
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781781941881

Viswanathan Anand is undoubtedly one of the World's greatest ever chess players. He first shot to fame in his youth, when he enthralled the chess public with his results and his amazing speed of play. He became India's first ever grandmaster, at the age of eighteen. He has won five World Championships, and was the undisputed World Champion from 2007 to 2013. He has been the World's number one ranked player and one of the very few to break the 2800 rating barrier. His renowned versatility has helped him to become successful in all forms of the game: tournament play, match play, knockout and rapid play. In this book, Grandmaster Zenón Franco examines in detail Anand's chess career to date. He selects and studies his favourite Anand games, and demonstrates clearly how we can all improve our chess by learning from Anand's play. Move by Move provides an ideal platform to study chess. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the Move by Move format greatly encourages the learning and practising of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of knowledge. Carefully selected questions and answers are designed to keep you actively involved and allow you to monitor your progress as you learn. This is an excellent way to improve your chess skills and knowledge. *Learn from the games of a chess legend *Important ideas absorbed by continued practice *Utilizes an ideal approach to chess study

Table of contents

• Bibliography
• Series Foreword
• Introduction
• Viswanathan Anand’s Style
• 1 First encounter with Karpov
• 2 First great triumph in a historic tournament
• 3 First important match
• 4 The start of the schism
• 5 Anand’s first match for the world title
• 6 Once more battling with Kasparov and Karpov
• 7 “An effort of which I am very proud”
• 8 Second world title match, in unequal conditions
• 9 World Champion for the first time
• 10 “The Hammer of Thor”
• 11 Second triumph in the FIDE World Cup
• 12 First outright victory in Wijk aan Zee
• 13 World Championship in San Luis
• 14 More great preparation on display at Wijk aan Zee
• 15 In the land of the World Champion
• 16 The start of the Anand vs. Carlsen rivalry
• 17 World Champion for the second time
• 18 The rival who most influenced Anand’s victory
• 19 World Champion for the third time
• 20 Thinking again about the title match
• 21 Triumph in the Bundesliga
• 22 World Champion for the fourth time
• 23 Lasker’s Defence strikes again
• 24 Homework pays off
• 25 World Champion for the fifth time
• 26 “One for the ages”
• 27 An encouraging triumph in preparation for the match
• 28 “One of those dream Najdorfs”
• 29 Last tournament in preparation for the match
• 30 Once again the taste of victory
• 31 The most difficult opponent
• 32 A game where “each move had its point”
• Index of Complete Games