WHAT MAKES ANAND A CHESS MAESTRO

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Latest match between V.Anand and Jaideep Unudurti held at Chennai on 27th December, 2012 in the afternoon resulted to 2-0 win by V.Anand over his opponent.
It was held at 29th Floor, Ouranya Bay, Chennai.

Some of the basic facts and expertise about V.Anand are as follows:

Tactical Engine
Depending on the situation, he can calculate up to 10 to 15 moves ahead.

Expert memory + Pattern recognition
He has a deep knowledge of recurring patterns and has a pre-loaded database of up to 200000 patterns. Once a position appears on the board, which conforms to such a pattern, he will automatically know the typical motifs, options and plans.

By age of 15, he had already memorised two volumes of the ECO or Encylopaedia of Chess openings. Each volume is around 300 pages.

Calculation Speed
30-40 positions per minute

Playing Speed
In blitz, can play near faultlessly at 30 moves a minute.

Openings

After just the first two moves, there are 72804 possible moves. He has complete knowledge of all the commonly occurring openings. For both White and Black, he has an extremely profound understanding of the 5 to 7 opening systems that he mainly plays.

Source: The Economic Times dt. 06.01.2013

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