Vishwanathan Anand : Grandmaster

Once upon a time, at the Nungambakkam railway quarters in Madras, kids of his age would jeer at him for being so bad at cricket, a game they felt every Indian child should know how to play. Twenty summers later, he is India’s richest sportsman. Lost he may have, 7.5-10.5, in his summit meeting with Kasparov, but Vishwanathan "Mad Max" Anand, arguably the fastest player of all time, still left the world champion helplessly fuming in a recent rapid chess tourney. Now if he could just stop being such a gentleman.