Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head..

I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans..

The Nanjing games are homework by Garry Kasparov and me, [...] Today's game was provided by Garry..

You need to have that edge, you need to have that confidence, you need to have that absolute belief that you're - you're the best and you'll win ever….

There wasn't any particular player I modeled my game after. I tried to learn from everyone and create my own style. I studied past players... Truth b….

Of course, analysis can sometimes give more accurate results than intuition but usually it’s just a lot of work. I normally do what my intuition tell….

I think with chess as with everything, marketing is the main issue..

I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening ….

Not winning a tournament is not an option for me, unless it's no longer theoretically possible - then of course winning becomes impossible. But up to….

I don't really watch too many movies. I don't have the patience usually to watch one, one and a half or two hours in a row..

For me, the most important thing is to continue to play well and to be a positive figure and hopefully a role model for kids as well..

I am trying to beat the guy sitting across from me and trying to choose the moves that are most unpleasant for him and his style..

I can’t count the times I have lagged seemingly hopelessly far behind, and nobody except myself thinks I can win. But I have pulled myself in from de….

One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garr….

I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person..