Viswanathan Anand hopes India will bag five Olympic medals

Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand on Monday hoped that India would win five medals in different events in 2012 London Olympics.

Anand came to Patna to take part in a function and said that he was hopeful of India winning five medals in different events in 2012 London Olympics.

When asked about his son becoming a chess player, he said he would try to explore as to whether his son has interest in chess.

"I will try to find out his interests and I would leave it to him to decide about his activity. Even my guardians did not know that I have interest in chess," he said.

"Now it has become very easy to watch chess anywhere and learn the game but this opportunity was not available during the period when I started going to a club to play chess," Anand said.

"Even one can play chess on the internet now," he said.