Playing chess with Viswanath Anand // Ezhilarasan childcare chess
PLAYING CHESS WITH VISWANATH ANAND AND Losing . . தமிழ் மொழிபெயர்ப்பு . In my teenage, I had been very active playing chess and table tennis. I had also participated in tournaments and got one or two prizes. This incident happened when I was about 20 years old. Then I was doing my graduation. I participated in a chess tournament being conducted at the Mahatma Gandhi Stadium, Salem. About 40 or 50 persons, many very elderly to me and many very younger also participated in it. The tournament went for about 7 or 8 days and for about 10 rounds of matches. In that tournament, a cute looking boy from Chennai, studying 7th standard came first, after winning all of us. As usual, the person who comes first was asked to say a few words about the tournament. So, the 7th standard kid was also asked to talk. The boy sporting a “scooter hair cutting” started to talk in English. I was astonished hearing him talk very fluently and casually in English. He seemed to be a convent-educated boy