I think with chess as with everything, marketing is the main issue.

It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's OK to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

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 can’t count the times I have lagged seemingly hopelessly far behind, and nobody except myself thinks I can win. But I have pulled myself in from desperate [situations]. When you are behind there are two strategies - counter-attack or all men to the defences. I’m good at finding the right balance between those.

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.

Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.