You have to be obsessed to succeed: Viswanathan Anand
5 years, 1 month ago

You have to be obsessed to succeed: Viswanathan Anand

Live Mint  

As a child, chess master Viswanathan Anand picked up a habit on his mother’s insistence: jotting down his impressions immediately after a game; typically, a loss. The five-time world champion revisits many such life experiences in Mind Master: Winning Lessons From A Champion’s Life, which will release on 11 December—his 50th birthday—to offer lessons on how to navigate personal and professional lives. To achieve life’s big goals, like, for instance, my quest to become a world champion, you need some degree of obsession. Mind Master: Winning Lessons From A Champion’s Life Unlearning is considered an effective way to work and lead better.

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Viswanathan Anand has the gift of phrase-making too
4 years, 11 months ago

Viswanathan Anand has the gift of phrase-making too

The Hindu  

The French artist Marcel Duchamp, a passionate player who participated in four chess Olympiads said, “Beauty in chess is closer to beauty in poetry; the chess pieces are the alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem… while all artists are not chess players, all chess …

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