In games against humans, you often win because the opponent blunders a piece, and you can often survive when you do it yourself. Against the computer, you make only one mistake - the last one.

Intellectual effort gives me enormous pleasure

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.

When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.

Only he, who penetrates into the depth of the game, can express his personality in it.

When I was a child I liked the games of Capablanca, and later I was captivated by Alekhine's play.

I go to bed at 4 a. m. Almost all chessplayers do.