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- Whenever you hear the word Chess, the name "VISWANATHAN ANAND" will flash in your mind.
- Anand has been the undisputed world chess
champion since 2007 and has proved his class over the years against the
experienced as well as the young promising opponents.
- On Friday, the Indian Grandmaster was finally dethroned by
Norway’s 22 year old, Magnus Carlsen.
- Carlsen dominated this world championship throughout and played
to his strengths while Anand was forced to play to his weakness.
- Carlsen picked up a draw on Friday thus making a tally of the
required 6.5 points over Anand’s 3.5. He won the game 5, game 6 and game 9.
- Anand needed three wins in a row and was going for the kill in
game 10 but Carlsen showed his master class and held the game to a draw.
- Carlsen is now the second youngest Chess Champion, just 5
months elder to the youngest Chess Champion Garry Kasparov who won in 1985.
- Anand’s world championship might have been gone but nevertheless
Anand has been the best Grandmaster India has ever produced.
Chess and Vishy:
- Anand started to play chess right from the age of 5 and has
single handedly propelled India to the top of the chess world.
- In 1984, he became the youngest Indian to win world junior
chess championship at the age of 14 and showed the world that Indians can play
Chess.
- At just 18, he became India’s first Grandmaster and was
awarded Padma Shri.
- He has won Chess Oscar (given to the best player of the year
worldwide) six times – 1997,1998,2003,2004,2007 and 2008.
- He won the world chess championship five times – 2000,2007,2008,2010,2012.
- He even became one of the six ever to break the 2800 mark on
the FIDE rating list.
- He was awarded Khel ratna in 1991 and voices have been raised
for conferring him with Bharat Ratna.
- He is a legend and will always be remembered as the "Sachin Tendulkar" of Indian chess. Such was his dominance.
- His carrer is not only an inspiration for Indian Chess but
also taught how to chase a dream and achieve it.
- Virat Kohli scored a match winning 86 yesterday against the
Carribeans and in the process crossed the 5000 run landmark with a massive six.
- He is now the joint-fastest batsmen to reach 5000 run mark
along with Sir Vivian Richards.
- Both Kohli and Richards played 114 innings although the West Indian
Legend featured in 126 matches, six more than Kohli.
- During this record, he also surpassed Sourav Ganguly’s record
of fastest 5000 by an Indian (126 innings).
- He could have surpassed Sir Vivian Richards’s record in his
previous match itself but was unfortunately run out without troubling the
scorers.
- He also holds the record for most ODI hundreds scored with
5000 runs or less.
- Kohli now tops the ICC ranking for ODI batsmen with 857 rating
points, 8 points ahead of AB de Villiers.
- He has established himself in all the formats especially in
the shorter formats of the game.
- He has shown the world that he is capable of scoring either a
blitzkrieg innings or an anchoring innings.
- He is averaging 68.98 in winning cause in ODIs and 65.54 while
chasing, which is the highest in ODIs.
- He has got that aggressive attitude, determination and
appetite for runs, which has kept him going.
- Though he has a lot of haters because of his arrogant attitude,
he has kept them silenced with his performances.
- He is just 25 and has already scored 17 centuries.
- If anybody could surpass Sachin’s record of most centuries in
ODIs, then it could well be this young sensation.
- He along with Rohit Sharma has formed the backbone of Team
India.
- Certainly, the future of Indian batting is in the
safe hands.
- India today has successfully launched its first mission to Mars "Mangalyaan", a Rs 450 crore mission.
- Mangalyaan means "Mars craft" in Hindi.
- It is the size of a small car and is meant to make a 300-day journey to study the Martian atmosphere.
- It has been in the making for 15 months started at once after China's Mars missile failed in 2011.
- Over 500 scientists worked with sleepless nights.
- The launch has put India in the group of four countries that includes America, Russia and Europe.
- The mission is aimed at establishing the country's capability to reach the Red Planet.
- And focussing on looking for the presence of methane, an indicator of life, in Mars.
- It was launched at 2.38 pm, entering orbit around Earth 44 minutes after blast-off.
- It will reach Mars orbit by September 2014.
- This mission will undoubtedly make India, a nation to be reckoned with space research and exploration.
- This mission is comparatively cheap yet critics have questioned whether a country with poverty like ours can afford to spend this huge amount in Mangalyaan.
- On the other hand, optimists say that this mission will in turn reflect in the development of economy of the country and could possibly reduce poverty.
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