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

I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.

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.

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.

Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.

Chess is so deep, I simply feel lost.

Chess is a matter of daily training.