1. Viswanathan Anand achieved that goal on 1 November 2010 list with a rating of 2804, two points ahead of Magnus Carlsen, but was overtaken by Carlsen in July 2011.
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1. Viswanathan Anand achieved that goal on 1 November 2010 list with a rating of 2804, two points ahead of Magnus Carlsen, but was overtaken by Carlsen in July 2011.
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2. In 2010, Viswanathan Anand announced that he would expand his tournament schedule, beginning in late 2010, in an effort to regain the world number one ranking from Magnus Carlsen.
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6. Viswanathan Anand participated in the 2013 World Chess Championship match against Magnus Carlsen.
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8. Viswanathan Anand won the tournament ahead of reigning Classical World Champion Magnus Carlsen and this was his first victory in a world championship since losing the classical championship to Carlsen in 2013.
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12. Viswanathan Anand lost the defence of his title in the World Chess Championship 2013 at Chennai.
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13. Viswanathan Anand won game 12 on the Black side of a Queen's Gambit Declined to win the game and the match.
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18. Viswanathan Anand tied for second with Peter Svidler in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005 with 8½ points out of 14 games, 1½ points behind the winner, Veselin Topalov.
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20. Viswanathan Anand won the Mainz 2008 Supertournament Championship by defeating rising star Magnus Carlsen, earning his eleventh title in that event.
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22. Viswanathan Anand is the first player to have won five titles of the Corus chess tournament, succeeded by Magnus Carlsen.
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23. Viswanathan Anand has won the annual event Monaco Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess Championships in years 1994, 1997, 2003, 2005 and 2006.
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24. Viswanathan Anand won three consecutive Advanced Chess tournaments in Leon, Spain, after Garry Kasparov introduced this form of chess in 1998, and is widely recognised as the world's best Advanced Chess player, where humans may consult a computer to aid in their calculation of variations.
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27. Viswanathan Anand was the only sportsperson to be invited for the dinner hosted by the Indian PM Manmohan Singh for US President Barack Obama on 7 November 2010.
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28. On 24 December 2010, Viswanathan Anand was the guest of honour on the grounds of Gujarat University, where 20,486 players created a new world record of simultaneous chess play at a single venue.
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31. Viswanathan Anand was born on 11 December 1969 at Mayiladuthurai, Tamil Nadu in a Tamil Brahmin family, where he grew up.
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35. Viswanathan Anand held the FIDE World Chess Championship from 2000 to 2002, thus becoming the first Asian to do so.
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