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.

It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

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

I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.

I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games. I analyze when I'm on the computer, either my games or my opponents. But mostly my own.

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

I don't really watch too many movies. I don't have the patience usually to watch one, one and a half or two hours in a row.