Magnus Carlsen ranks Vishy Anand

Reigning World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen rates 14th World Champion Viswanathan Anand on Genius, Entertainment, Influence and Sanity!

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[BinaryRex]

Anand is underrated. Second most WC titles, first person to break Russian hegemony after 35 years, still in the top 20 at age 52. Another thing to keep in mind is that in the 70s/80s, India had way less chess resources than Europe/USA which makes his rise all the more remarkable.

[Epic_Shitzz]

Because of Vishy most people in india got to know that there are "grandmasters" in chess. this is how much His influence is.

[aname]

Bobby Fischer is probably the only reason why they included a sanity rating

[is]

Just to put it in perspective, Magnus gave himself an 8 on the genius rating.
Goes to show how highly he respects Vishy.

[afan]

In Magnus Carlsen's world, the strongest player after Kasparov is definitely Anand.

[GMPranav]

Guys remember: Magnus is ranking every category in terms of chess and chess only. Here influence isn't the influence he had to inspire Indian GMs and stuff. Purely chess influence as in how much his ideas are used in the modern game. Reminder that Magnus gave Fischer 7 for genius and Anand 9.

[Jesusislord-amen-]

influence should be 10 this guy sigle handedly brought chess to India a country with 1/7 of world population that to me is a big ass influence.

[arvindradhakrishnan]

A very objective assessment of Anand by Magnus I would say. Be that as it may, I think Vishy ought to have scored a bit higher on entertainment (say 8) because he was known as the lightning kid when he was young and played very attacking chess until his 30's.Many GM's still recall those awesome games.He also played a lot of beautiful games even much later, even in the last few years one could see this.His beautiful Qd4 move against Caruana in the Sinquefield Cup 2017 just shows that he is an extraordinary talent who can still find such moves over the board.Kramnik on Vishy's 50th birthday said that "for a player to be in the top league after he is 40 is extremely difficult and very rare because of age, fatigue, stress, weaker memory etc..but if Anand is still there in his 50's it is only because of his extraordinary talent and sheer class.I can only think of the case of Capablanca who was still in the top 10 in his 40's.I would without any hesitation say that Vishy is the most talented player of my generation which by the way was very formidable (which included Ivanchuk, Gelfand, Shirov, Leko, myself too)."That is high praise indeed.Another thing that amazes me is Anand's humility and simplicity.He is afterall a 5 time world chess champion!Yet he never displays any arrogance or rudeness like many of the other world champions.He is very kind and pleasant to everyone around him, unassuming and modest, respectful towards anyone who interacts with him and also very witty and likeable.Another fact, he still remains the only Asian and infact the only non-white to ever become World Champion.These are the reasons why I think he is a great role model.for youngsters world over.

[MindManiacMarcus]

Vishy is a really great and inspiring guy, totally agree with the score, especially 10 for sanity.

[maxivy]

Cmon my Indian friends, they obviously meant influence over chess theory. Anand is obviously a huge influence in India’s chess world, a solid 10/10 there. Magnus even acknowledges it.

[Shreyas]

DEsi Audience aa gaye sablok Vishy ka name dekhkar na.

[AmitKumar-quse]

Magnus is rating the genius category based on the games he has analyzed of the respective players. Bobby got a 7 because all of games of his that he analyzed didn't manage to impress him that much, I think.

[SalazarsRevenge]

Loving the magnus shorts, really makes my day seeing them pop up on my recommended!

[ajaysabarish]

I agree with Carlsen here, Vishy is one of the greatest natural talents, once Kramnik told "I used to feel in the 90's if I just could have his talent, I would be 2900 or something"

[kundukulam]

Here is a story of Anands influence in India. Once while Anand was travelling by train he got invited by a co-passenger to play a game of Chess. Anand won the games comfortably and the co-passenger remarked, Do you think you are Anand that you are playing such awesome chess.

[Electronite]

Imagine Magnus having kids and them showing him their first drawings. Kid: Daddy is this a nice picture? Magnus: Well I on scale from 1 to 10 I guess this is a solid 2. It obviously could have been worse.

[shauryathapliyal]

Agreed with everything except influence....Ask anybody in India or neighbouring countries about any chess player...The only name they know is vishy anand..even if they dont play chess...Influence 10/10

[ashleysilver]

Anand is an autodidact. Self thought. Uptil 1995 India didnt have a professional chess ecosystem like world class coaches or academies. Anand learnt everything till the age of 15-16 from books and magazines. Compare this to Kasparov who went to a professional academy and was thought by former world champions when he was a child. One can only imagine if he had gone through the same system as Kasparov how much better he would have been. But still the pinacle of chess is World Chess Champion and Anand has it. India is the only country in Asia to have had a World Chess Champion and Anand is it.

[clarkejapethcanal]

Magnus is low-key stricter than my profs

[MuhammadKharismawan]

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