Talk:Viswanathan Anand

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A news item involving Viswanathan Anand was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 30 October 2008.

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Vegetarian?

I don't know much about chess, but I'm a vegetarian, and I've heard Anand is too. Is this correct? Shouldn't this fact be mentioned in the article? It sure goes a long way to explain his mental superiority. (preceding unsigned comment by 62.73.248.37 (talk))

If Anand is vegetarian, we should mention it, but we should find a source for the information first, we need more than "I've heard such and such." However, we should not say that he is mentally superior because he's a vegetarian. I am not aware of any factual basis that eating meat impairs brain function, and on the surface this seems false. Further, saying Anand is 'mentally superior' suggests that other people are somehow deficient, which would be identified type of bias and point-of-view that is not allowed on Wikipedia. So, a fact about Anand like him being a vegetarian is fine to mention, we should not call him mentally superior as a result. —fudoreaper (talk) 22:51, 30 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Siblings

I've removed the paragraph on his brother and sister from the "personal" section. I can't find a relevant Wikipedia policy, but it seems to me pretty rare to put siblings' info in Wikipedia articles (except in cases where the whole family is famous), and it seems to be pushing the bounds of privacy. Peter Ballard (talk) 02:14, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Jewish

I heard he belongs to an Indian-Jewish family. Is this true?

No. Tintin 14:21, 30 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting question. To be very precise he belongs to an Indian-Tamil-Hindu-Brahmin-Iyer family. Vaazan (talk) 16:37, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please check these edits

Someone please check the edits made today by 122.161.145.28 in "personal life". Bubba73 (talk), 18:53, 8 December 2008 (UTC) Done[reply]

More chess diagrams!!!

I've just added more chess diagrams. They can be viewed on the article, but for anyone who wants a laugh for the first one...

	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h
8									8
7									7
6									6
5									5
4									4
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h

The final position of the game.

If you want to read it, either go to the article by this link or turn your computer screen upside down. Ho ho. --116.14.27.127 (talk) 13:47, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ranking Change

After the win at the last game of the World Championship, Anand is now ranked third in the world with a rating of 2800 (2799.8, actually).

http://chess.liverating.org/

Navneethc (talk) 20:13, 11 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Update World's Greatest Player Page

Can some expert please update the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Methods_for_comparing_top_chess_players_throughout_history which talks about the method of rating the greatest players.