Dhoni asks Dada to lead the team

Nice gesture by MSD to ask Dada to lead the team in the final moments of Dada's career...and Dada took this opportunity with open arms..enjoy watching the Bengal tiger as acting captain in this video.. Dada , we will miss you .

Viswanathan Anand Biography

Viswanathan Anand (pronounced Vis'wah'nəh'thən Ah'nənd) (born December 11, 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster. In the January 2006 FIDE Elo rating list, Anand has a rating of 2792, making him the number three in the world (after the retired Garry Kasparov and Veselin Topalov). Anand has been one of the strongest non-Soviet players since Bobby Fischer, along with the Hungarian Péter Lékó and the Bulgarian Topalov.

Biography

Anand's rise in the Indian chess world was meteoric. National level success came early for him when he won the National Sub-Junior Chess Championship with a score of 9/9 in 1983 at the age of fourteen. He became the youngest Indian to win the International Master's Title at the age of fifteen, in 1984. At the age of sixteen he became the National Champion and won that title two more times. He played games at blitz speed, earning him the nickname "Lightning Kid" ("Blitz chess" is known in India as "Lightning chess"). In 1987, he became the first Indian to win the World Junior Chess Championship. In 1988, at the age of eighteen, he became India's First Grandmaster.

"Vishy", as he is sometimes called, burst upon the upper echelons of the chess scene in the early 1990s, winning such tournaments as Reggio Emilia 1991 (ahead of Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov). Playing at such a high level did not slow him down either, and he continued to play games at blitz speed. In 1991, he lost in a tie-breaker to Anatoly Karpov in the quarter finals of the FIDE Knockout World Chess Championship.

Viswanathan Anand qualified for the Professional Chess Association World Chess Championship final by winning the candidates matches against Michael Adams and Gata Kamsky. In 1995, he played a title match against Kasparov in New York City's World Trade Center. After an opening run of eight draws (a record for the opening of a world championship match), Anand won game nine using a splendid sacrifice on the queen side, but then lost four of the next five. He lost the match 10.5 - 7.5.

Anand won three consecutive Advanced Chess tournaments in Leon, Spain after Garry Kasparov introduced this form of chess in 1998, and is widely recognized as the world's best Advanced Chess player, where humans may consult a computer to aid in their calculation of variations.

Viswanathan Anand's recent tournament successes include the prestigious Corus chess tournament in years 2003 and 2004 and Dortmund in 2004. He has won the annually held Monaco Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess Championships in years 1994, 1997, 2003 and 2005.

Anand has won the Chess Oscar in 1997, 1998, 2003, and 2004. His four Oscars ties him with Kasparov for the most ever, one better than Fischer's three. The Chess Oscar is awarded to the year's best player according to a world-wide poll of leading chess critics, writers, and journalists conducted by the Russian chess magazine 64.

Viswanathan Anand's game collection, My Best Games of Chess, was published in the year 1998 and was updated in 2001.

After several near misses, Anand finally won the FIDE World Chess Championship in 2000 after defeating Alexei Shirov 3.5 - 0.5 in the final match held at Teheran, thereby becoming the first Indian to win that title. He lost the title to Ruslan Ponomariov in 2002.

He became shared second in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005 (together with Peter Svidler) with 8.5 points out of 14 games, lagging 1.5 points behind the winner, Veselin Topalov.

In October 2003, the governing body of chess, FIDE, organized a rapid time control tournament in Cap d'Agde and billed it as the World Rapid Chess Championship. Each player had 25 minutes at the start of the game, with an additional 10 seconds after each move. Anand won this event ahead of ten of the other top twelve players in the world with Kasparov being the only missing player. Anand is still deservedly considered to be the world's finest Rapid Chess player.He has consistently won almost all rapid events defeating many top players and his main achievements in this Category are at : Corsica , Leon , Amber events where he dominated almost all elite players .

If his talent as a rapid chess player is legendary, his records in classical chess have been superlative. In January 2006 he became the only player in the tournament's 70-year history to win the Corus Chess event five times (1989, 1998, 2003, 2004 and 2006).

Anand is one of the most clear-headed chess analysts in the world, and his explications are astonishingly accessible for club players.

More than 8 hours of rare insights into arguably the best brain in chess.


Chess titles

• 1983 National Sub-Junior Chess Champion - age 14
• 1984 International Master - age 15
• 1985 Indian National Champion - age 16
• 1987 World Junior Chess Champion, Grandmaster
• 2000 FIDE World Chess Champion
• 2003 FIDE World Rapid Chess Champion

Awards

• Anand has received many awards.
• Arjuna award for Outstanding Indian Sportsman in Chess in 1985
• Padma Shri, National Citizens Award and Soviet Land Nehru Award in 1987
• The inaugural Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, India's highest sporting honour in the year 1991-1992.
• British Chess Federation 'Book of the Year' Award in 1998 for his book My Best Games of Chess
• Chess Oscar (1997, 1998, 2003 and 2004)

Michael Jordan-"The Basket Ball LEGEND"

Michael Jordan was born on the 17th of February, 1963 as "Michael Jeffrey Jordan". Michael Jordan was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Jordan attended Emsley A. Laney High School in Wilmington, North Carolina. His athletic abilities were noticed early, with exceptional talent in football, basketball and baseball.


While attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Michael Jordan became the school's star basketball player. Jordan was named Player of the Year in both 1983 and 1984 by The Sporting News. Michael Jordan was drafted by the Chicago Bulls NBA Basketball team in 1984 and was warded the NBA Rookie of the Year for 84-85.

Michael Jordan became the star player of the Chicago Bulls basketball team, playing a major role in the six NBA Championships. He was also awarded MVP (Most Valuable Player) five times. Each time the Chicago Bulls reached the NBA finals with Jordan playing, he also won the Finals MVP award every time.















Jordan retired from Basketball in 1993. He then went on to briefly pursue a career as professional baseball player, playing for the Birmingham Barons, but never made it to major league baseball. He then came out of retirement from basketball, again joining the Chicago Bulls for several successful NBA seasons. After again retiring in 1999, he came out of retirement to play for the Washington Wizards basketball team, although age and injuries began to take a toll on the basketball star.


Michael Jordan has been one of the most sponsored and marketed sport people of all time. He has amassed a great fortune through lucrative sponsorship deals with major companies like Nike and Gatorade.

An unfortunate low in Michael Jordan's life was when his father was murdered in 1993. His dad was returning from the funeral of a friend and pulled over to get some sleep while driving the Lexus vehicle that Michael had brought for him. Two thieves murdered James Jordan before stealing the expensive Lexus car. They were later caught and brought to justice.










Jordon Quotes:

1.I don't care about numbers, man. I just want to win basketball games. I'm not going in there trying to be Lew Alcindor - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - one of the best players of all time. If I could do that it would be unbelievable but I'm not trying to do that.

2.I truly love the game of basketball. I truly love the game. I wouldn’t be playing if I didn’t love the game.

3.I viewed it as a business, but I always viewed it as a game. An opportunity to show my skills, my basketball skills, amongst the best in the world.

4.Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That’s truly about the game, and in some ways that’s about life too.











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