Indian chess champion Grand Master Viswanathan Anand successfully defended his crown by defeating Bulgarian challenger Vesselin Topalov in the World Chess Championship 2010. Anand played with the black pieces and won in the 56th move, with an aggregate score of 6.5 – 5.5 points.

Viswanathan Anand’s Chess Titles
2010 – World Chess Champion (Undisputed)
2008 – World Chess Champion (Undisputed)
2007 – World Chess Champion (Undisputed)
2003 – FIDE World Rapid Chess Champion
2000 – World Blitz Chess Champion
2000 – FIDE World Chess Champion
1990 – Asian Champion
1988 – Grandmaster
1987 – World Junior Chess Champion
1985 – Indian National Champion
1984 – International Master
1984 – Asian Junior Champion
1983 – National Sub-Junior Chess Champion

Awards won by Viswanathan Anand
1985 – Arjuna award for Outstanding Indian Sportsman in Chess
1987 – Padma Shri
1987 – Soviet Land Nehru Award
1991 – 1992 The inaugural Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, India’s highest sporting honour
1998 – British Chess Federation ‘Book of the Year’ Award for his book My Best Games of Chess
2000 – Padma Bhushan
2001 – Jameo de Oro the highest honour given by the Government of Lanzarote in Spain on 25 April 2001. The award is given to illustrious personalities with extraordinary achievements.
Chess Oscar (1997, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2007 and 2008)
1998 – Sportstar Millennium Award, from India’s premier Sports magazine for being the sportperson of the millennium
2007 – Padma Vibhushan