It Is Rightly Said That

Intellectual Effort Gives Me Enormous Pleasure

I Made A Better Decision In Choosing My Team. Sure, I Had A Bigger Choice Of Players To Choose From - But I Couldn't Have Asked For A Harder Working Group Of Players Who Did An Incredible Job.

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.

On The Whole, The Life Of A Chess Professional Is Not As Easy As It Appears At First Sight. One Needs To Devote Some Ten Hours A Day To Chess And To Everything Connected With It - Physical And Psycholgical Preparation.

Every Month I Look Through Some Ten Thousand Games, So Not As To Miss Any New Ideas And Trends.