What’s the similarity between chess and finance? Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand says there is a basic connect in the method of learning chess and finance. “You can relate chess to finance. Quite a lot of chess players have moved on to finance after their chess career,” said Anand. The ability to look at past financial transactions and apply them differently is something conceptually very similar to looking at a previous game of chess and understanding what was done well or badly and applying a same opening in a different way, he explains. Through his life journey, Anand gives us five money lessons: