In my experience, when I went to school, and especially in after-school, and during breaks, a lot of people wanted to sit down and play chess up till a certain age when it was not supposed to be cool anymore and people wanted to do other things.

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

You have to choose the move that feels right sometimes; that's what intuition is.

I'm definitely the first no.1 in the world since Fischer, and probably at least since Kasparov, who probably has the most potential to dominate for the foreseeable future.

What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.

I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.

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