Kammala wannan jumla: Anand ya lashe gasar zakarun duniya sau biyar. Ya doke Alexei Shirov a wasan wasa shida don lashe gasar zakarun duniya ta 2000 FIDE, taken da ya rike har zuwa 2002. Ya zama zakaran duniya wanda ba a jayayya da shi ba a shekara ta 2007, kuma ya kare kambinsa a kan Vladimir Kramnik a shekara ta 2008, Veselin Topalov a shekara ta 2010, da Boris Gelfand a shekara ta 2012. A shekara ta 2013, ya rasa kambun ga mai kalubalantar Magnus Carlsen, kuma ya rasa wani sakewa ga Carlsen a
2014 bayan ya lashe gasar 'yan takara ta 2014.