“Chess and offensive football are quite similar; you sacrifice something now to get something back later.”

In football, you are mostly reacting from a defensive point of view…but you always want to be counterattacking…a similarity with chess strategy.

Chess is a very positive way to exercise your mind. It makes you look at the whole picture…what are your options and what is the best thing to do?

I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.

I add status to any tournament I attend.

If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me

I felt that chess… is a science in the form of a game… I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

There’s no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.

I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov’s site is very interesting.

I think it’s almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.

A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he’s like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.