I made a better decision in choosing my team. Sure, I had a bigger choice of players to choose from - but I couldn't have asked for a harder working group of players who did an incredible job.

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.

Intellectual effort gives me enormous pleasure

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

Objectivity consists in understanding that the only one who never makes a mistake is the one who never does anything.

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.