Anand is all smiles as he is honoured with the laurel wreath at the award ceremony in Moscow. By winning his fifth World Chess Championship title, Viswanathan Anand joined an illustrious band of Grandmasters who have achieved the feat the same number of times. Statistically, the number may not mean much when you look at the most significant title wins because there are two ways of determining the most dominating reigns in chess history: either by the number of times a champion has won the title or the number of years he has been in power.
Among Anand’s predecessors, there are three World champions who had won the title more number of times. If Emanuel Lasker towers over the rest of them with six titles mainly because he had a longer reign too (27 years) and he could choose his opponents then, the modern Soviets Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov had also won it six times each. Lasker’s 27-year World record reign will probably remain forever.
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