The Indian won with whopping 5205 points, towering over the second placed Garry Kasparov, who aggregated 3664 points
Anand drew with Spaniard Francisco Pons while Kasparov lost to Teimous Radjabov of Azerbaijan in the Linares chess tournament.
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.
The other semi-final in the World Rapid Chess championship will be between Vladimir Kramnik and Alexander Grischuk.
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 former World champion Anatoly Karpov of Russia in the seventh round to make the grade in the World Rapid Chess tournament.\n\n
Five-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand suffered his second defeat in the Altibox Norway chess tournament after losing to Anish Giri of Holland in the fourth round, in Stavanger.
He conceded an easy half point to GM Arkadi Naiditsch of Germany in the penultimate round.
'The main thing for chess right now is to finish its world championship and get one reunified title,' says Vishwanathan Anand.
16 of the world's top Grandmasters will battle for honours in the World Rapid Chess tournament in France.
Anand and Judit Polgar were the only players to finish unbeaten in the 14-player all-play-all tournament.
The Indian ace was engaged in an eventful draw with Vladimir Kramnik in the 8th round of the Corus chess tournament.
The India ace avenged his World championship defeat, winning his seventh round match in the Corus tournament in 34 moves.
The victory placed the Indian World Cup champions in the joint lead with Alexei Shirov and Judith Polgar in the Corus chess tournament.
India's World Cup champion Vishwanathan Anand earnd a comfortable draw with veteran Dutch Grandmaster Jan Timman in the fourth round of the Corus chess tournament.
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.
The Indian GM demolished Jan Timman in the 11th round of the Corus Chess tournament.
The Indian GM's has seven points, with four wins and six draws with three more rounds remaining at the 66th Corus Grandmasters Chess tournament.
The Indian GM registered his first win with black pieces in the 66th edition of the Corus Grandmasters Chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand says the rating system should not be used to name the best player of the year.
Former World champion Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw against Sergey Karjakin of Russia to remain in joint second spot in the Sinquefield Cup chess tournament, in St Louis, United States.
The ace Indian Grandmaster hopes 'to wipe the slate clean in 2004'.
The Indian ace runs into 15-year-old Teimour Radjabov, who had shocked Gary Kasparov, next in the Linares tournament.
The two chess giants agreed to split the point after only 16 moves at Linares.
The Indian ace won his opening match against Ruslan Ponomariov at Linares in 64 moves.
The World Cup and World Rapid champion beat Miso Cebalo to make the grade in the Corsica Masters.
India's Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw against Evgeny Tomashevsky of Russia in the sixth round to remain static in third spot in the 10th Tal Memorial Chess tournament, in Moscow.
The Indian ace held Frenchman Joel Lautier in the fifth round of the World Rapid Chess Championship.
Judit Polgar of Hungary continues to breathe down Anand's neck.
The victory enabled the Indian ace maintain the sole lead in the Corus chess championship.
Viswanathan Anand's hunt for an elusive win continued as he was held to yet another draw by Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan in the sixth round of the Altibox Norway Chess tournament, Stavanger, Norway.
The former world champion inflicted a 60-move defeat on the Bulgarian in the second round of the 65th Corus chess tournament.
The Indian ace beat Judit Polgar in the last two games to win the Mainz Classic 5-3.
The Indian ace, who lost the third game on Friday morning, had black in yet another Sicilian Najdorf, the third time in four games.
'Re-issuing ordinances is against convention. Courts have said that re-promulgation of an ordinance is against the Constitution.'
The main difference of opinion between RBI and FinMin is over the transfer of the RBI's 'excess' capital reserves. The Jalan panel seeks to convince finance secretary Subhash Garg to soften his dissent note language. The move is aimed at maintaining the now-cordial relations between the RBI and the finance ministry.
Despite the draw Anand maintained a half point lead in the Corus Chess tournament.
Anand settled for a quick draw against Vassily Ivanchuk. He shares the lead with Judit Polgar and Evgeny Bareev.
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