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I think the draw quotient has always been high in world championship matches because the amount of effort people put into neutralizing each other’s openings. It’s just now with computers that it has reached a new level.

Viswanathan Anand

It is important that you don’t let your opponent impose his style of play on you. A part of that begins mentally. At the chessboard if you start blinking every time he challenges you then in a certain sense you are withdrawing. That is very important to avoid.
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Challenges Play Psychology
When you play with the best in the world, it is important that you not lose focus. You must be fully focused. Even a minor error could result in a massive defeat.
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Errors Focus Play
In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.
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Chess Evaluation Sometimes
If revenge motivates you, go for it! But the main thing is to set your game in order.
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Game Order Revenge
There are some aspects of work you need to keep working on and no matter what environment you are in. Continuous learning is very important. It’s what I call ‘competitive tension’, which is about having a competition around.
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Competition Important Need
Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion.
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Champion relief Title
I keep forcing, I keep learning new things in the game, and so far I have been taking challenges as they come.
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Challenges Game Keep Learning
Each match I approach like a new one. The work is so immense that you don’t have time to sit and ponder.
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Approach Immense Pondering
I don’t know how many calories an average chess player burns per game, but it often exceeds that of a player in ball games. It is not only the chess as such: You need to be fit and undergo complicated preparation.
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Average Games Player
We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow.
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Level Player Want
I think the draw quotient has always been high in world championship matches because the amount of effort people put into neutralizing each other’s openings. It’s just now with computers that it has reached a new level.
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Effort People Think
I’ll take my five positions per second any day, thank you
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Chess Five Position

I think the draw quotient has always been high in world championship matches because the amount of effort people put into neutralizing each other’s openings. It’s just now with computers that it has reached a new level.

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