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.

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

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

Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

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.

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

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