Lovely Anand portrait in the Indian Express

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5/10/2010 – "If Indian chess, once a faceless form struggling to establish for itself an identity, is now a full-bodied force of nature, powered by young minds for whom all the world's a stage, it is because of the inspiration inherited from a path-breaker..." This description of a one-man revolution by Siddhartha Mishra in the E-Paper version of the Indian Express is a must-read portrait of Vishy Anand.

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To read this article go to this page of the Sunday Express and click on the chess story at the top. If you have any problems navigating the E-Paper pages you can go directly to the full-sized page at this location. If everything fails simply display or download the JPG image of the page here. It's really worth the effort.

Incidentally you might recognize the picture our Indian colleagues – bless their hearts – have used in the article. Yes, it is straight from the Anand DVDs produced by ChessBase in Hamburg.

You can read this review by Steve Goldberg or simply order the DVDs now.