Kapil Dev to Prakash Padukone: Meet India's first gamechangers
Ahead of the release of Ranveer Singh's '83', a film on India's pathbreaking cricket World Cup victory, Forbes India looks at the journeys of sportspeople who flipped the switch for India on the globa...
Mar 16, 2020, 14:41 IST1 min
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![<p>When Viswanathan Anand started playing chess, India didn"t have a single grandmaster and computers were non-existent in the country. The year Anand became grandmaster, in 1988, was also the first he got to practice on a computer. “[Till then], books were the only source of chess knowledge,” says Anand. This means that his world-beating feat came from reading seminal chess literature like <em>Chess Openings: Theory and Practice </em>by Israel Albert Horowitz, which his sister bought for him from a local bookstore, or José Raúl Capablanca’s <em>Chess Fundamentals, </em>among others</p>](https://images.forbesindia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/media/photogallery/2020/Mar/12.viswanathananand_besantnagar93_20200316024602_930x584.jpg?im=Resize,width=300,aspect=fit,type=normal "<p>When Viswanathan Anand started playing chess, India didn\"t have a single grandmaster and computers were non-existent in the country. The year Anand became grandmaster, in 1988, was also the first he got to practice on a computer. “[Till then], books were the only source of chess knowledge,” says Anand. This means that his world-beating feat came from reading seminal chess literature like <em>Chess Openings: Theory and Practice </em>by Israel Albert Horowitz, which his sister bought for him from a local bookstore, or José Raúl Capablanca’s <em>Chess Fundamentals, </em>among others</p>")
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