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.

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.

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

I really enjoy the experience of playing humans. The psychological game is so much more important.

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

There are certainly loads of players that I admire; I try to learn from all of the great masters both of the past and contemporary as well.

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.