Meet the player! Viswanathan Anand was the undisputed World Champion from 2007-2013 and is one of the greatest talents the game has ever known. The “Tiger of Madras” grew up in a chess backwater but could hardly go unnoticed. He would win classical six-hour chess games using only minutes on his clock and became India’s first grandmaster as an 18-year-old. He soon went on to take his rightful place among the world chess elite, winning countless tournaments and rivaled only by Kasparov as the best