All I expect are wins and to get pleasure from the game. And if someone thinks something about me, if someone's dissatisfied with something... that's not my headache. I hope someday I'll become World Champion - and I'll make all these people happy. But even if for some reason that doesn't happen it won't stop me getting pleasure from chess. I'm sure of that.

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.

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

For me right now I think being the world number one is a bigger deal than being the world champion because I think it shows better who plays the best chess. That sounds self-serving but I think it's also right.

The Nanjing games are homework by Garry Kasparov and me, [...] Today's game was provided by Garry.

One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.

Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.