An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.

Every month I look through some ten thousand games, so not as to miss any new ideas and trends.

On the whole, the life of a chess professional is not as easy as it appears at first sight. One needs to devote some ten hours a day to chess and to everything connected with it - physical and psycholgical preparation.

No - I'm quite calm inside during the game for most of the time - not 100%, but generally very calm.

Intellectual effort gives me enormous pleasure

In the current FIDE World Championship, on the knock-out system, weaker players have good chances. Those, who in a long match would practically have no chance, here may creep through.

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.