Vishy Anand: World Chess Champion
Viswanathan (Vishy) Anand comes from southern India and is the greatest chess-player of his generation.Having shot to fame as a child, playing master-standard chess at lightning speed, he became a grandmaster in1987. Anand contested his first world championship match in 1995, and won the FIDE Championship in 2000.He has been World Champion since 2007, and has won many elite-level tournaments throughout his long career.Grandmaster John Nunn is a three-time World Chess Solving Champion, and is famous for the quality of hischess writing.