You have to be cool under pressure. You have to be a strategist like chess and you have to use geometry like billiards.

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.

It looks very casual and easy but it actually takes quite a bit of effort. Sweeping is very aerobic.

I'm serious about it. Get your jeans on.