Chess success in India due to Anand

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No Indian can be like Anand

No Indian can emulate Anand: Negi

Chennai: The global media considers Parimarjan Negi as the next big thing to emerge from India after Viswanathan Anand in chess. The 20-year-old Delhi GM, who has a Fide rating of 2671 elo, won the Politiken Cup at Copenhagen in August this year. He had earlier claimed the same tournament in 2009.

Anand has established himself as an all round player

Abhijeet Gupta

NEW DELHI: He expects the World Championship sword fight linking Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen to be an intense contest but Indian Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta feels his nationality is still the favorite in the much-anticipated face-off owing to the wealth of experience he has.