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.

Before a match, I do not follow any chess news except the games.

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

I think an important lesson from the game is that once you have made a move, you cannot take it back. You really have to measure your decisions. You think a lot. You evaluate your choices very carefully. There's never any guarantee about what's going to follow once you have made a decision.

In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.

My practice schedule is not constant and changes a lot and depends on my moods also.

I don't know how many calories an average chess player burns per game, but it often exceeds that of a player in ball games. It is not only the chess as such: You need to be fit and undergo complicated preparation.