<p>After his confidence shattering loss to Magnus Carlsen in the World Championships at home, Viswanathan Anand sloughed off the painful memory with the clinching of Candidates tournament in March.<br /><br />Now with renewed vigour and optimism, the five-time champion is looking to do his best in the year, including avenging his defeat to Carlsen.<br /><br />A relaxed looking Anand on Wednesday admitted the loss to the Norwegian last November “knocked the stuffing” out of him before he bounced back by winning the Candidates tournament last month. </p>.<p><br />That title triumph earned him a rematch against Carlsen in World Championships in November.<br /><br />“I will try to take the confidence to the World championships. It is inevitable that we will remember some aspects of that match but I will try to take it as a fresh match. I have an idea (of) what to do,” Anand told reporters during an NIIT event.<br /><br />“I have got my confidence back and I am very optimistic now. I know even if I face the same mistakes, I will act differently now.”<br /><br />Reflecting on his performance against Carlsen, Anand said: “Many errors had crept into my game. I started to become a bit more reliant on computers. I was not oblivious to it but I was not able to address the problem in the right manner.<br /><br />“After the match (against Carlsen) I didn’t have much time to recover.”<br /><br />The loss pushed Anand to break away from chess for a couple of months. “I remembered long back once after the end of an event, Karpov and me were talking. He mentioned that a player who had a bad tournament will take a long time to recover from a bad result because he was so much in love with the game and he didn’t have something else to take his mind off chess.<br /><br />“So I decided that it was more important to recover emotionally because a result like this knocks the stuffing out of you. So in December and January, I was trying to avoid chess,” Anand explained. <br /><br />He didn’t have elaborate preparations ahead of the Candidates tournament, where he had “one of his best” results.”I had a short training camp in February. I thought it was enough. <br /><br />“I went to Khanty (Mansiysk) and the first game went brilliantly – it was my first win over (Levon) Aronian and it gave a big boost to me,” he pointed out.<br /><br />Anand said he would be playing a lot of rapid events this year.</p>.<p><br />“Last year, I didn’t get to play any rapid event, so it is good. This year, I will compensate for last,” he signed off.</p>
<p>After his confidence shattering loss to Magnus Carlsen in the World Championships at home, Viswanathan Anand sloughed off the painful memory with the clinching of Candidates tournament in March.<br /><br />Now with renewed vigour and optimism, the five-time champion is looking to do his best in the year, including avenging his defeat to Carlsen.<br /><br />A relaxed looking Anand on Wednesday admitted the loss to the Norwegian last November “knocked the stuffing” out of him before he bounced back by winning the Candidates tournament last month. </p>.<p><br />That title triumph earned him a rematch against Carlsen in World Championships in November.<br /><br />“I will try to take the confidence to the World championships. It is inevitable that we will remember some aspects of that match but I will try to take it as a fresh match. I have an idea (of) what to do,” Anand told reporters during an NIIT event.<br /><br />“I have got my confidence back and I am very optimistic now. I know even if I face the same mistakes, I will act differently now.”<br /><br />Reflecting on his performance against Carlsen, Anand said: “Many errors had crept into my game. I started to become a bit more reliant on computers. I was not oblivious to it but I was not able to address the problem in the right manner.<br /><br />“After the match (against Carlsen) I didn’t have much time to recover.”<br /><br />The loss pushed Anand to break away from chess for a couple of months. “I remembered long back once after the end of an event, Karpov and me were talking. He mentioned that a player who had a bad tournament will take a long time to recover from a bad result because he was so much in love with the game and he didn’t have something else to take his mind off chess.<br /><br />“So I decided that it was more important to recover emotionally because a result like this knocks the stuffing out of you. So in December and January, I was trying to avoid chess,” Anand explained. <br /><br />He didn’t have elaborate preparations ahead of the Candidates tournament, where he had “one of his best” results.”I had a short training camp in February. I thought it was enough. <br /><br />“I went to Khanty (Mansiysk) and the first game went brilliantly – it was my first win over (Levon) Aronian and it gave a big boost to me,” he pointed out.<br /><br />Anand said he would be playing a lot of rapid events this year.</p>.<p><br />“Last year, I didn’t get to play any rapid event, so it is good. This year, I will compensate for last,” he signed off.</p>
