It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.

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.

I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.

People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.

I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.

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

There are certainly loads of players that I admire; I try to learn from all of the great masters both of the past and contemporary as well.