Viswanathan Anand of India has become the 15th official World Chess Champion. He won the World Championship held in Mexico City over the past several weeks. He beat out the 7 other contenders including defending World Champion Vladimir Kramnik of Russia. Anand first challenged for the World Championships in 1995, but showed that persistence is the key to winning after losing that match against then World Champion Garry Kasparov.
And speaking of Garry Kasparov, after retiring from chess in 2004 with the reputation as the greatest chess player who ever lived, Kasparov is now turning his attention to politics. Kasparov was overwhelmingly elected as a candidate for President of Russia as The Other Russia candidate which is a coalition opposed to Vladimir Putin.
There should be more about these big chess stories in the news in the coming week.
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