GM Vishy Anand Masterclass #5
Pattern Recognition
Learn from 5-time World Chess Champion GM Viswanathan Anand! This video lesson is a recorded masterclass taught by GM Anand in Chess University’s Prodigy Program in November of 2016. In his fifth live seminar, GM Anand covers the topic of how knowing patterns from famous games can help streamline your thought process.
This lesson is a great illustration of why it is crucial to know famous chess games (especially the classics.) Anand demonstrates how knowing famous games can save you crucial time in making key decisions in your own games. Throughout the lesson, Anand uses many examples from his own games, providing the students with an insight into the mind of a top grandmaster. This lesson is tailored to advanced students (1500-2000) and the run time for this lesson is 59 minutes.
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Viswanathan “Vishy” Anand is a five-time World Chess Champion, considered to be one of the greatest chess players of all time.
At the age of 18, Anand became India's first chess grandmaster. He was FIDE World Chess
Champion from 2000 to 2002. Anand became the undisputed World Champion in
2007 and successfully defended his title three times. In April 2006,
Anand became the fourth player in history to pass the 2800 Elo mark on
the FIDE rating list.
(Wikipedia)
Since 2016, GM Anand has been a special mentor at Chess University and has taught many live lessons in the Prodigy Program.