Celebrity

It's easy to become angry, but when you get better, you channel your energy into the game.

When I was younger, I would look at a game with computers and still be fascinated by the possibilities.

Life is very much about making the best decisions you can. So I think chess is very valuable.

It's good to win. Losses aren't good, and draws are O.K.

There is a perspective out there that I'm very much all about myself... I just live with it.

I've had to grow up pretty fast, which is not a good thing.

Everybody uses computers to train so much now that the first nine or 10 moves of a match are made without thinking.

The way I play is not like most people. The moves are more computeresque. They're not the moves that most humans are going to play.

I would say out of all the things I studied growing up, math was probably one of the things that I liked the least.

It's easy to become angry, but when you get better, you channel your energy into the game.

I get tired of the traveling.

When you're 17 and 18 is when you get really good, and in college, you have to put the chess aside.

I play different styles, and am very good at changing how I play.

I'm into hiking and mountains and I follow hockey and basketball pretty avidly.

I think for me the main goal that I have, or at least what I really aspire to, is to raise the level of chess.

I don't consider myself a nerd.

I'd rather play for the Yankees. You get more money.

Life is very much about making the best decisions you can. So I think chess is very valuable.

I play different styles, and am very good at changing how I play.

I want to be ranked in the top 100 players. If I can achieve that, I'll think about the world championship.