Intellectual Effort Gives Me Enormous Pleasure

For Me Art And Chess Are Closely Related, Both Are Forms In Which The Self Finds Beauty And Expression.

Part Of My Preparation For The World Champion Match Against Kasparov Was To Be Ready For His Off-board Tactics. I Did Not To React To Them At All. Once You Start Thinking About These Things During The Game, Even Analysing Them, You're Caught.

In The Current Fide World Championship, On The Knock-out System, Weaker Players Have Good Chances. Those, Who In A Long Match Would Practically Have No Chance, Here May Creep Through.

The Berlin Defence Suited My Strategy For The Match. I Had A Defensive Strategy - Actually, I Had In My Pocket Some Other Sharper Stuff To Fall Back On - But First I Wanted To Try The Defensive Strategy With Black And It Worked So Well.

Once He Had Selected The Path He Was Going Down He Really Had To Stick With It In A 16 Game Match. He Had To Try And Hit In The One Direction But Unfortunately For Him - Though Fortunately For Me! - He Hit In The Wrong Direction.