You can feel the same thing in football or soccer - that for the best teams in Spain and England, for instance, the public... they're not really going to cheer at all when they play against bad teams unless they do something spectacular. Even if they're winning by a few goals they'll probably just say, "nah." That's normal and they're not excited about it.

I don't think there is a thing like overconfidence in chess. It's always better to be too confident than too reluctant.

My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.

What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.

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 that point, not winning is just not an option.

Kids love games and chess is a game where you have to sit down and concentrate and it just helps in every way.

There are so many games that I've seen that I've learned from. I never - that's also part of the same - never single out a particular player or a particular game.