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

I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person.

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.

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.

I've never really had a favorite player, past or present.

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

It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.