The Greatest Indian Sportsperson Of All Times

He has been playing and winning since the age of 14. He has been among the top 3 players for the last 12 years (only recently did he drop down to number 5).
He has won the World Chapionship four times.
He is the original blitzkrieg guy - the term "master blaster" is only a derivative.
He has won the Oscars 5 times.
He is likely to win it this year too.
He is humble.
He is the greatest.
He is Viswanathan Anand.
And he today is the reigning world champion.
He made Kramnik eat his words (something like 'the title is on loan to Anand and I will get it back').

Three cheers to Anand!

Now, can we expect his book My Best Games of Chess to become a best seller in India?

Learning Chess from Bobby Fischer Himself

As I encourage my sons to take up chess, I cannot think of any other book except Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess. My friend, Ashish Balaya, introduced me to this when we were doing our masters together. And in all these years OI have not come across a more effective way of learning chess.

The book is as simple as it is effective. Perhaps that is the mark of the genius that Fisher was. Every concept is presented as a set problem-solution picture form. And it gradually takes you to ever increasing complexity. The best way to learn from this book is by recreating the pictures (even for the simplest ones) on the actual chessboard.

Surprisingly when I searched this book at Foyles I could not find it. I finally found it in Bangalore! Please buy this book and give to your kids. You will surely thank me.

This book will not make you a Grandmaster. But, it will definitely make you fall in love with chess. I recommend it very strongly.

Note: The photograph used belongs to Katia Stamenova. Please go here to see more such photographs.