Vishy,fanatstic to be the undisputed and oustanding Champion of the game form the country of its origin.Heart best wishes for many a laurels for many more years.We thousand & lakhs of Indians send our congrats.Don't ever bother about the riff-raff media understanding !Keep it up Great! Congrats agin-N.S.Ramachandran
Some thinks blindfold chess or mind chess is a recent invention.
But this type of game was played in early India as far as 500 BC. See "Digha Nikaya, Maurice Walsh translation page 70. (Brahmajala sutta)
Buddha admonishes monks : "Where as some ascetics addicted to such idle persuits such as eight row or ten row chess, chess in the air (mental chess), hopscotch, spillikins, dicing, ball games, guessing letters, hand pictures, guessing thoughts, mimicking deformities, playing with toy ploughs the ascetic Gotama refrains from such idle persuits." Digha Nikaya, Maurice Walsh, page 70.
RE:Blindfold chess in early India (500 BC)
by THAKUR HEMANT on May 11, 2007 01:18 PM
yes, we should all have to congratulate him on his great success, and we wish him that he will continue giving good results in chess, and continue his story of winning.
But this type of game was played in early India as far as 500 BC.
See "Digha Nikaya, Maurice Walsh translation page 70. (Brahmajala sutta)
Buddha mildly admonishes monks : "Where as some ascetics addicted to such idle persuits such as eight row or ten row chess, chess in the air (mental chess), hopscotch, spillikins, dicing, ball games, guessing letters, hand pictures, guessing thoughts, mimicking deformities, playing with toy ploughs the ascetic Gotama refrains from such idle persuits." Digha Nikaya, Maurice Walsh translation, page 70.
RE:congratulation
by THAKUR HEMANT on May 11, 2007 01:20 PM
congratulations Mr. anand, and we wish that u will continue the story of winning, we are proud of u
Anand's journey to the top of the world ranking's is a matter of great redemption for very many Indians - especially those who were disappointed by India's dismal low-class performance at the cricket world cup.
RE:Long Live Vishy
by BHASKARAN GANESHAN on Apr 05, 2007 10:45 PM
Anand was always India's pride. Indians as we are take pride in statistics and so we had momentarily forgotten all other achievers, fortunately for us our cricketers did not do well. Still Anand is too good a player to lose to Topolov repeatedly during their encounters last year. Now that he has taken over, instead of trying to defend his No.1 position he should play more aggressively though not in kasparov's style, but with that kind of attitude.
I this is the best news I have ever listen in the recent time. We should put our hands togather for Vishy, its really foolish to sit in front on TV all the day seeing these loser(cricketers). This is the time that we must cheer other sports..... By FLUORINEPOSITIVE
