I am trying to beat the guy sitting across from me and trying to choose the moves that are most unpleasant for him and his style.

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 don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.

One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.

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

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

Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.