I don't consider myself a particularly young chess player. I have been playing in the best tournaments in the world since I was 16 years old. In other sports, if you have been playing for seven years, you are not a young prodigy any more. You're one of the pros.

I'm not really into rap.

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.

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.

I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

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

There are so many games that I've seen that I've learned from. I never - that's also part of the same - never single out a particular player or a particular game.