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

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.

Kids love games and chess is a game where you have to sit down and concentrate and it just helps in every way.

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.

I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.

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