I played like a child!

I learnt an enormous amount, but there came a point where I found there was too much stress. It was no fun any more. Outside of the chessboard I avoid conflict, so I thought this wasn't worth it.

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

You have to choose the move that feels right sometimes; that's what intuition is.

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

My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.

In my experience, when I went to school, and especially in after-school, and during breaks, a lot of people wanted to sit down and play chess up till a certain age when it was not supposed to be cool anymore and people wanted to do other things.