It's funny, but many people don't understand why I draw so many games nowadays. They think my style must have changed but this is not the case at all. The answer to this drawing disease is that my favorite squares are e6, f7, g7 and h7 and everyone now knows this. They protect these squares not once but four times!

If you wait for luck to turn up, life becomes very boring.

The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it.

I will not hide the fact that I love to hear the spectators react after a sacrifice of a piece or pawn. I don't think that there is anything bad in such a feeling; no artist or musician is indifferent to the reactions of the public.

I go over many games collections and pick up something from the style of each player.

If (Black) is going for victory, he is practically forced to allow his opponent to get some kind of well-known positional advantage.

Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess.