We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow.
Viswanathan AnandWhen I started out playing chess as a kid I thought I should be world champion. As a kid you have no idea what that means and you only sort of picture it. It is hard to imagine that I waited all those years and it happened in a late stage of my career.
Viswanathan AnandI think the draw quotient has always been high in world championship matches because the amount of effort people put into neutralizing each other's openings. It's just now with computers that it has reached a new level.
Viswanathan AnandBeing the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion.
Viswanathan Anand