India has lot of talent. What I am happy with is that the talent keeps on coming. Certainly it could be nice, though I am not terribly keen on seeing my successor yet.

In any match, there are few critical moments where there's no second best decision. The rest of the moves are intuitive.

Nowadays, when you're not a grandmaster at 14, you can forget about it

I was very lucky that while I was a chess player in a country where chess was not a big deal, I happened to be in the one city where there was a sprouting chess team: Chennai.

I'll take my five positions per second any day, thank you

Each match I play is the most important one yet.

Each match I approach like a new one. The work is so immense that you don't have time to sit and ponder.