I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.

Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.

Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.

I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.

Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.