Viswanathan Anand
b. 1969
Practices documented across his career: enormous pattern study, speed under clock pressure, adapting method as the game changed.
8 skills · 4 stages · first 2 lessons free · enrol ₹2,000/month for all
Domain skills
- Childhood
Thousands of studied positions
Built a large library of recognised patterns early.
Train: Pattern Recognition - Teens
Rapid play reputation
Known for fast, accurate calculation under time limits.
Train: Mental Mathematics - 1990s–2000s
World-level matches
Prepared deeply for specific opponents rather than generically.
Train: Decision Making - 2010s
Re-learning with engines
Publicly adapted his preparation method when computers changed the field.
Train: First-Principles Thinking
Essential General Skills
Transferable skills mapped to this role.
Essential General Skills
Each skill includes a lesson, worked example, assessment, real-life task, and adaptive game. Two correct answers raise the challenge; one miss lowers it.
Pattern Recognition
Name the rule before guessing the next item. Then test the rule against every item you already have.
- Look at differences between neighbours.
- Say the rule out loud.
- Check it on all items.
- Only then predict.
Find three patterns at home — tiles, a calendar, a song chorus — and describe each rule in one sentence.
- SET Daily Puzzle ↗
Find sets by colour, shape, number and shading.
- Lichess Puzzles ↗
Spot tactical patterns in chess positions.
Rule Breaker
Adaptive rule: two correct in a row raises difficulty, one miss lowers it. Accuracy so far 0%.
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