Viswanathan Anand

15th World Chess Champion · Modern era · India · b. 1969

The lightning kid: five-time world champion, and the player who made India a chess nation.

Career In The Collection

2363Games
587Wins
1351Draws
425Losses
53%Score
1985–2026Active
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Head-to-Head Records

Opponent Games Wins Draws Losses
Vladimir Kramnik 205 31 142 32 view games
Magnus Carlsen 144 21 82 41 view games
Vassily Ivanchuk 134 28 85 21 view games
Veselin Topalov 132 41 75 16 view games
Levon Aronian 128 23 76 29 view games
Boris Gelfand 114 30 72 12 view games
Anatoly Karpov 97 35 50 12 view games
Alexei Shirov 96 33 57 6 view games
Hikaru Nakamura 95 13 59 23 view games
Michael Adams 92 30 53 9 view games
Peter Leko 92 26 57 9 view games
Fabiano Caruana 91 19 48 24 view games
Garry Kasparov 82 10 46 26 view games
Peter Svidler 72 17 50 5 view games
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 71 22 38 11 view games
Anish Giri 67 10 43 14 view games
Sergey Karjakin 66 11 42 13 view games
Wesley So 63 11 42 10 view games
Alexander Grischuk 61 17 31 13 view games
Judit Polgar 58 30 18 10 view games
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 58 14 29 15 view games
Ian Nepomniachtchi 56 15 25 16 view games
Gata Kamsky 47 13 22 12 view games
Alexander Morozevich 43 18 14 11 view games
Nigel Short 27 9 13 5 view games
Jan Timman 24 12 10 2 view games
Ding Liren 22 4 16 2 view games
Jan-Krzysztof Duda 19 7 9 3 view games
Viktor Korchnoi 16 11 5 0 view games
Richard Rapport 12 2 6 4 view games
Arjun Erigaisi 10 2 4 4 view games
Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa 10 2 6 2 view games
Alireza Firouzja 9 1 2 6 view games
Gukesh Dommaraju 9 3 3 3 view games
Wei Yi 9 2 6 1 view games
Lev Polugaevsky 7 2 4 1 view games
Bent Larsen 4 3 0 1 view games
Hou Yifan 4 2 2 0 view games
Lajos Portisch 4 1 2 1 view games
Nodirbek Abdusattorov 4 2 2 0 view games
Boris Spassky 2 1 1 0 view games
Efim Geller 2 1 1 0 view games
Mikhail Tal 1 1 0 0 view games
Nona Gaprindashvili 1 0 1 0 view games
Svetozar Gligoric 1 0 1 0 view games
Vasily Smyslov 1 0 1 0 view games
Vincent Keymer 1 1 0 0 view games

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