Dee ihe ọzọ maka paragraf a - Anand bụ onye mmeri ụwa chess ugboro ise. O meriri Alexei Shirov na egwuregwu isii iji merie 2000 FIDE World Chess Championship, aha o jidere ruo 2002. Ọ ghọrọ onye mmeri ụwa a na-enweghị mgbagha na 2007, ma gbachitere aha ya megide Vladimir Kramnik na 2008, Veselin Topalov na 2010, na Boris Gelfand na 2012. N'afọ 2013, ọ tụfuru aha ya na onye na-ama aka Magnus Carlsen, ọ tụfuru mmeghachi Carlsen na 2014
mgbe o meriri asọmpi ndị na-azọ ọkwa n'afọ 2014.