I appreciate the support and anyone who takes up a position on my behalf. Especially in matches, this feeling that there are people behind you, gives me a lot of strength.

In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may lose in the first round itself.

In 1996, the players at the VSB tournament in Amsterdam sent me a card for my wedding with this dedication, 'Anand congrats on your wedding. You were a great player, now be ready to lose 50 points'.

A win is a win, which is about that particular moment.

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

It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not to do that anymore.

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