What is Viswanathan Anand famous for?
What is Viswanathan Anand famous for?
Viswanathan Anand, (born December 11, 1969, Madras [now Chennai], India), Indian chess master who won the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE; international chess federation) world championship in 2000, 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2012.
What is Viswanathan Anand hobbies?
Training: Apart from his other hobbies of reading, swimming and listening to music, Anand was just 6 years old, when he showed traits of his excellence in the game. His mother was a chess aficionado who taught him to play.
Who is the father of chess?
Wilhelm Steinitz, the first World Champion, widely considered the “father of modern chess,” extensively analyzed various double king-pawn openings (beginning 1. e4 e5) in his book The Modern Chess Instructor, published in 1889 and 1895.
Who has the highest IQ ever?
There is not a distinct answer to who has the highest IQ, but it is not Albert Einstein. Those with higher IQs in comparison with Einstein include William James Sidis, Leonardo Da Vinci and Marilyn vos Savant. Sidis was a child prodigy whose IQ was estimated to be anywhere between 200 to 300, says parade.com.
