At that level it's like a chess match on a bike. You've got to learn all the strategies.

It's going to be basically the last man standing. It's going to be really hard.

It's very unusual for someone to move up that quickly. It takes two to three, maybe four to five years usually for someone to move up. But there are a few gifted ones.

I feel that my chess strengths are still here, ... I believe I can still improve.

In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ...
It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

I am lucky, ... that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball.