Anand to visit Botswana!
World Champion Viswanathan Anand
This is announcement of a pending visit to Africa by World Champion Viswanathan Anand. This may mark the first time a World Champion has traveled to the continent. Botswana has previously hosted GM Judit Polgar, one of the strongest players in history… female or otherwise.
Kenneth Boikhutswame told The Chess Drum that the initiative was made possible by the Botswana branch of NIIT, one of Anand’s supporters. He wants to use this opportunity to attract more sponsorship to Botswana chess. The story comes as a pleasant surprise and on the heels of the African Championship and Amon Simutowe conferral of the Grandmaster title.
The Indian became the NIIT Brand Ambassador in 1997. There is clearly great synergy between the world champion of the mind game and the Information Technology education giant, NIIT, demonstrated by the over 12 year relationship.
Mmegi Online, 10 August 2009.
“World Champion comes to Country,”
allafrica.com, 10 August 2009.
Now that is what I call good news….will be waiting, Mr. Vishy!
It will be a privillege for our continent to host the great and yet so humble world champion. I Wish he could reach as far as Zambia.
Thats a nice development.Botswana is definately rising to another level.Anand will surely prove as a motivational icon to most Africans he will come in contact with.
Now to my main concern..hasn’t anyone got info on the BOTSWANA OPEN CHESS TOURNEY. There’s absolutely nothing pertaining to it on the net and rumours seem to continue pouring in. We need invitation letters,notification,cost breakdown &stuff like that. Somebody do something.
Hmm, Vishy to Africa !? Wow! outta the clear Blue Sky!!! Theses guys are good , since they sending him to Africa one can surmise that the Africans are pretty impressive. I wonder what thoses Africans are up to now, maybe they been studying in private,secretly!!! Im up in age now memory fading, can anyone tell me if the country Bostswana is the one that got beat something like 42 to nothing vs “The Russians” in the Olympics? Are they now showing “concern” for the Africans by sending Vishy? Oh well i guess ill just “hang in there” and not give up like they suggest , HMM maybe this is the old “fly in the oinment” theory> STAY TUNED.
Lionel Davis
Anything wrong bring the world champion to Botswana? How does one improve his current chess Davis? Seat and relax and expect the good to come? Prepare and fine tune your chess prowess. Play with the champions and get the other dimensions of chess. It cant be achieved over night, but thats the way to go about it. Failure is a first step of learning. Get beaten 36 nil and take it from there.
Well Mr. Bolt congratulations on your record breaking runs,well done. I dont see anything wrong nor do i recall suggesting that there was something wrong with Vishy to Africa, however correct me if im wrong but i believe Simutowe is from Africa and they can easily sponsor him but somehow they “lose” funds or some other nonsense! As far as being prepared, Mr. Bolt do you really think, (a) im going to put my son Shaka in front of the whole world with 1.e5! (b) play the Ultrapirc vs their best guys on icc (c) email President Obama and the White House (d) Then the NBA drop that sweet chess video on the world (e) sit back and watch European Assizes like nige short try and catch up to the Ultrascience if i wasnt completely prepared ! Trust my friend im more prepared than you can possibly imagine! Peace.
This is an achievement, i think the organisers and Botwana Chess Federation deserve big ups for this because i dont think the game results matter as much as the IMPACT this will have on the future of chess in the region. This will sure leave a mark, If GM Polgar left a mark, how about World Champion GM Anand?!
I has been written that in due time an season if you are faithful, dedicated and searching for the “truth that in time, the truth will find you!” Congrats to any and all promotional concepts that advance the game, science or art of chess. If something is meant to be it will come to pass!! Their are some that will disagree but in time they too will see the “truth”!