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.

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

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

Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.

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

Of course, analysis can sometimes give more accurate results than intuition but usually it’s just a lot of work. I normally do what my intuition tells me to do. Most of the time spent thinking is just to double-check.

Unfortunately I'm still not a fashion expert.