He is a chess icon usually identified for his quick play, not his quick meals. However that could possibly be about to alter as GM Viswanathan Anand seems in a industrial for the restaurant big Subway.

Contemporary from showing within the inaugural International Chess League, the 53-year-old Tiger of Madras is starring in a 30-second TV industrial airing throughout India to advertise the favored sandwich chain.

Admin paneer sub khaane gaya tha 😅 pic.twitter.com/4BqLUX3LdU

— Viswanathan Anand (@vishy64theking) July 10, 2023

Having entered a department of Subway, Anand is proven sweating—profusely—over what opening option to make for his sandwich filling. As a genius discovering himself in some type of foodie zugzwang, Anand’s thoughts is working too laborious.

“It is a condiment checkmate!” Anand says when confronted by the choices, earlier than bolting for the exit and operating right into a glass door. “Even a genius can discover it laborious to order a sub,” the voiceover says in Hindi, earlier than suggesting Anand might have discovered it simpler if he’d ordered from Subway’s “Hotsellers” vary of ready-made sandwiches.

Anand’s advert has now been considered practically one million instances on Twitter, and the response was principally optimistic.

Caption this. pic.twitter.com/ZieHMu1j6b

— Jesse February (@Jesse_Feb) July 11, 2023

It isn’t the primary time a world champion has appeared in a TV commercial with the theme of a chess grandmaster being unable to carry out a activity that lesser minds discover straightforward.

In 2001, GM Garry Kasparov famously took half in an advert marketing campaign for Pepsi that aired throughout Tremendous Bowl XXXV. Kasparov beats a super-computer after which dismisses it as simply “wires, nuts, and bolts and silly by nature”.

Looking for refreshment, the thirsty grandmaster walks right into a room and makes an attempt to make use of an clever Pepsi merchandising machine that’s seemingly insulted on behalf of its silicon associates. The machine shoots a can at Kasparov earlier than delivering the pay-off line: “Your transfer!”

In each adverts, the grandmaster stars find yourself left somewhat ungraciously on the ground.

For Anand, the query of what he would have chosen for his filling is left open. However we’re guessing it may have been fried liver?