Chandigarh: Viswanathan Anand may have successfully defended his title, but the five-time world chess champion feels that weeks of intense training and hard work comes to nothing as it boils down to few last critical moments and grabbing the opportunity.
“It’s about the critical moments and these usually come down to few minutes or even few seconds apart from the one game. If you don’t grab that opportunity when it comes, it wastes all the months of work,” 42-year-old Anand said here.
He humbled Israel’s Boris Gelfand in Moscow this May to defend the title.
When asked that there were many who had raised the demand that he be given a Bharat Ratna, Anand said he thanks all those who feel he deserves it, but it’s not something that he would ever ask for.
He also sees a bright prospect for the sport in India and he wished that it would be introduced into the school curriculum around the country. “I think it is coming up very well. The number of kids taking to the game is good. The future is very bright.” (PTI)
