Viswanathan Anand and NIIT jointly founded MCA to promote chess in schools to enable development of young minds. the Academy has fostered over 16,600 Chess clubs in India, with over 1.5 Million students as members spreading in schools of Agartala, Guwahati, Hyderbad, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, New Delhi, Jaipur, Patna, Raipur, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Pune and other cities in India