I attend to my fitness. I go the gym every day and try to maintain my physical fitness; without that, it is tough to take challenges on the chess boa…

- Viswanathan Anand

Nowadays, when you're not a grandmaster at 14, you can forget about it

- Viswanathan Anand

I think an important lesson from the game is that once you have made a move, you cannot take it back. You really have to measure your decisions. You …

- Viswanathan Anand

Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what you are good …

- Viswanathan Anand

I keep forcing, I keep learning new things in the game, and so far I have been taking challenges as they come.

- Viswanathan Anand

Chess as a sport requires a lot of mental stamina, and this is what that makes it different from a physical sport. Chess players have a unique abilit…

- Viswanathan Anand

Intuition in chess can be defined as the first move that comes to mind when you see a position.

- Viswanathan Anand

If revenge motivates you, go for it! But the main thing is to set your game in order.

- Viswanathan Anand

In any match, there are few critical moments where there's no second best decision. The rest of the moves are intuitive.

- Viswanathan Anand