Chess
Main article: Chess in India See also: All India Chess Federation, All India Chess Federation for the Blind, and Chess Players Association of IndiaChess has risen in popularity in India in the last few decades primarily due to its star player GM Viswanathan Anand. He is the current World Champion, and he has revolutionized the popularity of this sport in India.
According to Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation (FIDE) World Ranking (active players) as of May 2013:
1. Viswanathan Anand is in 5th rank with a rating of 2783
2. Koneru Humpy is in 3rd rank with a rating of 2,597
3. Dronavalli Harika is in 18th rank with a rating of 2,492
It is believed that the game originated from India as a successor to Chaturanga or Shatranj. The All India Chess Federation is the governing body for chess in India.
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Famous quotes containing the word chess:
“What have we achieved in mowing down mountain ranges, harnessing the energy of mighty rivers, or moving whole populations about like chess pieces, if we ourselves remain the same restless, miserable, frustrated creatures we were before? To call such activity progress is utter delusion. We may succeed in altering the face of the earth until it is unrecognizable even to the Creator, but if we are unaffected wherein lies the meaning?”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)
“The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem.... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.”
—Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968)
“It’s a great huge game of chess that’s being played—all over the world—if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn’t mind being a Pawn, if only I might join—though of course I should like to be a Queen, best.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)