All hail King Anand

An Indian is the World No 1 in sport. Can you even guess whom we are talking about? Too bad it coincides with the world cup of cricket!! It more important to try and analyse what Dravid said and what he meant rather than to celebrate one of the most amazing achievements in sport by an Indian.

Well for those of you who missed it, Vishy Anand is the World No. 1 in chess. One of the best players in the world for most of the last decade and a half, he has seen the end of the 3 k’s (Karpov, Kasparova and Kramnik), the split in the world championship, unification matches, and he still remains man the Russian chess factory fears.

There have been disappointments along the way to be sure the loss to Kasparov, losing the championship to Karpov after doing all the hard work.But through it all he has remained the man to beat at most tournaments and possible the best blitz player of all time. But to me the true genius of the man is that he managed to come out of our system, he remains an inspiration to a whole new generation of really young talented chess players in the country, and perhaps to me the most crucial is that in sport known for big ego and odd behavior, he remains a genuinely nice guy with none of the eccentricities that seem to be the norm in the world of chess.

So three cheers to the best in the world of chess, and to the one world champion we have. GO Vishy make us even prouder! To those of you in the media how about some noise crowning the King?