Kids love games and chess is a game where you have to sit down and concentrate and it just helps in every way.
In my experience, when I went to school, and especially in after-school, and during breaks, a lot of people wanted to sit down and play chess up till a certain age when it was not supposed to be cool anymore and people wanted to do other things.
When you have fun then you're more interested in learning.
I don't really watch too many movies. I don't have the patience usually to watch one, one and a half or two hours in a row.
There are so many games that I've seen that I've learned from. I never - that's also part of the same - never single out a particular player or a particular game.
I'm definitely the first no.1 in the world since Fischer, and probably at least since Kasparov, who probably has the most potential to dominate for the foreseeable future.
I'm more interested in the games than the people.
There are certainly loads of players that I admire; I try to learn from all of the great masters both of the past and contemporary as well.
I've never really had a favorite player, past or present.
For me, the most important thing is to continue to play well and to be a positive figure and hopefully a role model for kids as well.
I think with chess as with everything, marketing is the main issue.
You can feel the same thing in football or soccer - that for the best teams in Spain and England, for instance, the public... they're not really going to cheer at all when they play against bad teams unless they do something spectacular. Even if they're winning by a few goals they'll probably just say, "nah." That's normal and they're not excited about it.
I don't consider myself a particularly young chess player. I have been playing in the best tournaments in the world since I was 16 years old. In other sports, if you have been playing for seven years, you are not a young prodigy any more. You're one of the pros.
I really enjoy the experience of playing humans. The psychological game is so much more important.
I don't think there is a thing like overconfidence in chess. It's always better to be too confident than too reluctant.
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