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

It's nice to be financially secure. Apart from that, I really don't care too much about money.

There wasn't any particular player I modeled my game after. I tried to learn from everyone and create my own style. I studied past players... Truth be told I never had a favorite player. It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people. I just go try to learn.

For me, the most important thing is to continue to play well and to be a positive figure and hopefully a role model for kids as well.

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

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

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.