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.

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.

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

I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.

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.

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

Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.