As several celebrities pitched in for relief and rescue in rain-battered Chennai, the family of chess ace Vishwanathan Anand threw open the doors of its house to some affected people of nearby slums, providing them accommodation, food and clothes.
Reader Akshat Khamparia spotted chess champion Vishwanathan Anand in Chennai.
Reader Manas Jati sent us this photograph.
Giving prominence to experience over youthful exuberance, five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand feels the three Indian participants remain far from winning the Candidates chess title, saying they "should first settle into the tournament."
Arjun Erigaisi briefly reached a career-high live rating of 2771.2 earlier this week and is the only Indian since Vishwanathan Anand to do so.
Nihal Sarin lit up Round 4 of the Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters 2025 with a hard-fought win over compatriot Arjun Erigaisi
Anand scored six wins and two draws to seal the Rapid title in Poland, Warsaw.
Teenaged Grandmaster D Gukesh has replaced the legendary Viswanathan Anand as India's top chess player after more than three decades.
Anand remained on 4 points from his eight games and his chances of a victory have been almost blown away.
World champion Vishwanathan Anand could not get the better of Teimour Radjabov's defence and settled for his second successive draw as second day of the Bilbao Grand Slam Final Chess tournament did not see a single result in any of the boards.
The victory placed the Indian World Cup champions in the joint lead with Alexei Shirov and Judith Polgar in the Corus chess tournament.
The World Cup champion drew with Alexander Grischuk and Alexei Shirov in his first two matches in the in World Rapid Chess Championship.
The organisers, one of the top IT education companies of the country for whom Anand is a brand ambassador, failed to control the situation as a result of which the champion had to unceremoniously make his way out from the airport amidst chaotic scenes.
Anand had endured losses at the hands of Rauf Mamedov (Azerbaijan) in the opening round before suffering defeats to Rapport and David Navara (Czech Republic) in the second and third round respectively.
HRD Minister Kapil Sibal on Tuesday apologised to chess wizard Vishwanathan Anand over the controversy on conferring an honorary doctorate to him and made it clear that his nationality was never questioned by the ministry.
The Indian ace beat former World champion Anatoly Karpov of Russia in the seventh round to make the grade in the World Rapid Chess tournament.\n\n
He conceded an easy half point to GM Arkadi Naiditsch of Germany in the penultimate round.
Viswanathan Anand drew his sixth round contest against Anish Giri of the Netherlands in the Classical section to slip to second place in the Norway Chess tournament in Stavanger.
The World Cup champion drew with Dutch GM Loek Van Wely to share the top place with Evgeny Bareev, Anatoly Karpov and Judit Polgar after the third round in the 65th Corus chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand on Saturday described 17-year-old Grandmaster D Gukesh overtaking him as the highest-rated Indian player in FIDE rankings as a "historic" achievement.
The World Chess champion conferred an honourary doctorate by the Sathyabama University in Chennai.
A move to confer an honorary doctorate on world chess champion Vishwanathan Anand was on Tuesday embroiled in a raging controversy over his citizenship, forcing him to decline the honour at least for now.
The India ace avenged his World championship defeat, winning his seventh round match in the Corus tournament in 34 moves.
Both players opted for safety and split the point in the opening round of the Dortmund chess meet.
Vishwanathan Anand drew with Judit Polgar in the fourth round of the Mtel Masters in Sofia.
Penguin Books India will publish the World Rapid champion's autobiography and a book on how to play chess.
The Indian ace won his opening match against Ruslan Ponomariov at Linares in 64 moves.
The Indian won with whopping 5205 points, towering over the second placed Garry Kasparov, who aggregated 3664 points
The ace Indian Grandmaster hopes 'to wipe the slate clean in 2004'.
The World Cup and World Rapid champion beat Miso Cebalo to make the grade in the Corsica Masters.
Despite the draw Anand maintained a half point lead in the Corus Chess tournament.
As India's Vishwanathan Anand squared off against Norway's Magnus Carlsen to defend his title as world chess champion, 11-year-old Shyamsundar and his 9-year-old sister Padmapratibha unfolded their cloth chess boards and sat cross-legged in the lobby of the hotel where the grandmasters were playing.
World Cup champion Anand outplayed Russian champion Peter Svidler in the blitz tie-break to make the summit clash in the World Rapid Chess Championship.
Vishwanathan Anand continued his winning ways as he annexed the 13th Grenkeleasing Rapid World Championship on Sunday.
The two chess giants agreed to split the point after only 16 moves at Linares.
The former world champion inflicted a 60-move defeat on the Bulgarian in the second round of the 65th Corus chess tournament.
Judit Polgar of Hungary continues to breathe down Anand's neck.
On the eve of his 40th birthday, the first chess player to become world champion in all three formats of the game, Indian ace Vishwanathan Anand has just one wish - to see his sport included in the Olympics.
Tne Indian ace beat World champion Ruslan Ponomariov while Kramnik accounted for Judit Polgar in the quarter-finals of the World Rapid Chess Championship.
The Indian ace beat Judit Polgar in the last two games to win the Mainz Classic 5-3.
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