I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer.

There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.

The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes.

My love of dynamic complications often led me to avoid simplicity when perhaps it was the wisest choice.

My life is split in three parts; I don't know the percentage. One could be called "chess" - the Kasparov Chess Foundation, promoting the game, training young players, playing on the internet, sometimes exhibitions. The second area would be "writing" - books, articles, Twitter, Facebook. And then "political activity" - fighting for human rights and democracy, so TV, interviews, speeches.

There is no one that can share your responsibility. It it is your responsibility you must carry it on and you must be responsible for your actions. At the end of the day we all are being challenged, sooner or later, by our destiny. And it's up to us to make all the difference in this life. If not you, who else?

I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.