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Viswanathan Anand is still the Champ!

Congratulations to Viswanathan Anand, the current world champion at Chess! He beat Boris Gelfand to defend his world title but it as not easy. Viswanathan Anand says that this was his toughest world chess title defense of his 5 and still has no plans to retire. Read more about the match here.


World Chess Championship: Anand vs. Gelfand

Anand vs Gelfand

The world chess championships are currently going on in Moscow. World champion Viswanthan Anand is battling with Israeli Chess Star Boris Gelfand. This is an intense battle over the chess board as these are the top two players in the world! If you want to take a look at their game, here is it.

A Russian Online Newspaper writes:

“Playing black for the second time in the match, Anand continued his faith in the Slav defense and yet again did not have much difficulty equalising.

It was a continuation of discussion in the second game of the match wherein Anand had gone for a fifth move surprise and yet again the World champion went for it, emphasising that it was not an opening gamble he had gone for in his first game as…”

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Emanuel Lasker

Emanuel Lasker is one of the most famous World Chess Champions. He was a German player who lives from 1868 - 1941 and was world chess champion for 27 years. More than just a chess player. Emanuel Lasker was a Mathematician and Philosopher as well. His unique approach to chess was very psychological and he sometimes even make inferior moves to confuse his opponents.

Emanuel Lasker was also friends is Einstein. Check out what Einstein had to say about him.

Also, make sure you take a look at some of the chess game that Emanuel Lasker played.