FIDE
Apr 4 2007, Bharat

Viswanathan Anand has reached the apex of the Chess World for the first time in his career - the Indian Grandmaster defeated Bulgarian Veslin Topalov at the Morelia-Linares chess tournament in Spain to be crowned the new World No 1.

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