Four decades after Viswanathan Anand spent two years chasing his final GM norm, India has joined an exclusive club of countries with 100 Grandmasters. India's ascent from no GMs to 100: Anand's era sparks a chess revolution fueling a new generation of grandmasters. When Viswanathan Anand played Alexei Shirov in Tehran in 2000 for his first World title, he perhaps knew his time would come.