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

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.

We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow.

Intuition in chess can be defined as the first move that comes to mind when you see a position.

You need to motivate yourself, no matter what-definitely when things are bad, but also when things are good. Or else, you risk becoming complacent.

You bring to chess facets of your personality and what you are. I have interests other than chess, like music and world and current affairs. I also have many friends around the world with whom I like to keep in touch.

When there's an important tournament going on, I try and stay in a bubble. It's easy that way because then you don't have to worry about anything else.