I have never been a professional model; I have had some modeling sessions.

When you stop playing for a while, people tend to forget about you.

It's now possible to play and take lessons from any place of the world. The concept of physical distance doesn't exist in the online world, and that is so cool!

If people will be interested in me, they will be interested in chess also.

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.

A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's why I like chess.

You have to win something for people to think about you.