Vishwanathan Anand is the BIGGEST INDIAN SPORTSMAN . Your Comments?

Question

I personally consider CHESS to be the best & biggest GAME , it's a game of that deeply involves our mind .

Chess as a game , has always been associated with Aristocracy & Royalty . The game is considered to be so important , that Army Cadets , soldiers , officers & Sons of business tycoons are usually encouraged to play it , as a leisure time activity .

Timur was propably a good player of chess , he was also a on of the greatest military genius ) .

Best Chess players in today's World come mostly from Russia & former Soviet States , there is only One Indian Guy there today & he happens to be the TALLEST . He is Vishwanathan Anand .http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anand.

I think he is the BIGGEST INDIAN SPORTSMAN ever .

Answer 1

Yes i support Vishwanathan anand is the BIGGEST SPORTSMAN till now

Answer 2

Chess?

Give me a break.

Now you will say Indian Kabbadi players have done much more for India than Sachin Tendulkar.They are the world champions.

Cricket is BY FAR the biggest sport in India which makes Sachin Tendulkar BY FAR the biggest sports icon in India.

I respect Vishwananthan Anand but don't you ever compare him with Tendulkar.

No one burns Anand's effigy when he loses a match.

What about Sachin?

Answer 3

Chess isn't a SPORT, it's a GAME!!!

So you consider Anand to be an athlete?? Get real........ he could weigh 200kg, smoke 3 packets of cigarettes a day and still be a great chess player. So what?

OK, he's the best chess player in the world at the moment, but as I said before CHESS IS NOT A SPORT!!!

Answer 4

I agree.

Actually there may be other players also who have made India and Indians proud from time to time, but since Chess is one of the games where individual player is involved. And among those games, no doubt Vishwanath Anand has been the Biggest Indian Sportman so far. Other reputed/famous players either belong to a team game (like Dhyan chand, Sachin, Kapil, Gavaskar, Pillai, Bhutia....... etc) or managed to impress the world with only one or two performance(s). But  Anand has been consistantly among  top players of Chess for long and without much buzz in media.

My  salute to him.

Answer 5

I will take your word for it!

He has single handed achieved, more success than any of the other sportsman in India ...

Answer 6

Possibly beside Tendulkar