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

I'm more interested in the games than the people.

I'm not really into rap.

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

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

Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.

You can feel the same thing in football or soccer - that for the best teams in Spain and England, for instance, the public... they're not really going to cheer at all when they play against bad teams unless they do something spectacular. Even if they're winning by a few goals they'll probably just say, "nah." That's normal and they're not excited about it.