It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

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.

Contrary to many young Colleagues, I do believe that it makes sense to study the Classics.

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.

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

I played like a child!

What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.