Prasad, Dibyendu Barua and Pravin Thipsay.

There are 11 international masters on the Indian chess scene, and four of them are in the race for the holy grail of all chess players - the grandmaster title: Anand, D.V. he became the youngest Indian to become an international master. These contests gave him such immense confidence that two years ago. Later that year, he finished tenth in the world junior championship. In his earliest international competition, the world sub-junior championship in 1984, Anand managed to finish third even though he came down with hepatitis halfway through the championship. He then went on to win the national sub-junior, national junior, national senior, the Asian junior and the Lloyds Bank junior titles twice each. He would stay virtually glued to the local rv lunch hour chess shows and picked up a few prizes in local chess contests.īack in Madras in 1981, the 12-year-old Anand - now a seventh class student at the Don Bosco Matriculation School - claimed a double in the local Kasturi Cup Tournament, winning the regular and lightning contests. It was during Viswanathan's stint as a consultant with the Philippines Rail way in 1978-79 that the young Anand sharpened his skills. Viswanathan, who retired as general manager of the Southern Railways last year. 'He took great interest in chess when he was only live,' recalls his father K. His mother introduced him to the game when he was still a toddler. Like most stars of the squares, Anand started young. As former national player Naseeruddin Ghalib, himself a chess administrator, said in disappointment: 'The fact that he was going fresh from the world junior championship would have given him a tactical advantage at Swansea.' But Anand is sure that his opportunity will come. Anand decided instead to return to Madras and attend the Lloyds championship in London, beginning on August 22. As he would have missed the early rounds.

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