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.

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.

Look At The Catastrophic Record Vishy Anand Has Against Garry Kasparov. Kasparov Managed To Beat Him Almost Everywhere They Played, Even Though Vishy Anand Has Belonged To The Absolute Top Players In The World For Fifteen Years. This Difference Cannot Be Explained Purely In Chess Terms, There Must Have Been Some Psychology.

My Very First Book Was A Games Collection Of Anatoly Karpov. On The Whole I Was Attracted By Positonal Play With Some Tactics, And Already Then I Was Aiming For Universality.

I Am Convinced, The Way One Plays Chess Always Reflects The Player's Personality. If Something Defines His Character, Then It Will Also Define His Way Of Playing.