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.

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

Not winning a tournament is not an option for me, unless it's no longer theoretically possible - then of course winning becomes impossible. But up to that point, not winning is just not an option.

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

Kids love games and chess is a game where you have to sit down and concentrate and it just helps in every way.

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.

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