I was lucky enough to attend schools where they were understanding about when I needed to go abroad to play chess. Of course, socially it is important to go to school and interact with people your own age.

In my experience, when I went to school, and especially in after-school, and during breaks, a lot of people wanted to sit down and play chess up till a certain age when it was not supposed to be cool anymore and people wanted to do other things.

I'm definitely the first no.1 in the world since Fischer, and probably at least since Kasparov, who probably has the most potential to dominate for the foreseeable future.

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

It's nice to be financially secure. Apart from that, I really don't care too much about money.

Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.

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.