Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Anand bụ onye mmeri egwuregwu chess ụwa 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 na-enweghị mgbagha na 2007, ma gbachitere aha ya megide Vladimir Kramnik na 2008, Veselin Topalov na 2010, na Boris Gelfand na
N'afọ 2012. N'afọ 2013, ọ tụfuru aha ya na onye na-ama aka Magnus Carlsen, ma ọ tụfuru Carlsen na 2014 mgbe o meriri asọmpi Candidates nke 2014.