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Indeed, chess has become more popular than ever, in the world and especially in India. First of all the game was invented there, secondly they have a vast population (1.3 billion!) – and unlike China have only one version of chess. So everyone who is interested in this sort of strategic game lands on the version we know – and not on Xiangqi, which is what a vast majority of Chinese play.
But there is a third reason for the unprecedented rise in popularity in recent years: India has a chess god. Anand has changed a country that was lagging in chess (I have described that in my interview below) to one that is poised to lead the world in the game, to become a super-power that can only be compared to the Soviet Union of past decades. I have predicted that in ten years at least twenty percent of players in the top hundred will be Indian, and at least thirty percent of the top ten will be GMs from that country. And they have all been inspired by the unass