If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game.

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

Let's play. I'm willing to play anywhere.

I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.

I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess

Chess demands total concentration

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.