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

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.

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.

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.

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

I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person.

The Nanjing games are homework by Garry Kasparov and me, [...] Today's game was provided by Garry.