Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.

Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.

An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.

Intellectual effort gives me enormous pleasure

It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position

My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and already then I was aiming for universality.

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.