I was world champion. For me, chess is my life. It is everything.
Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course, chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities. And so you must have a very strong nervous system, and then you must be well prepared; you must be able to work a lot.
No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.
After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As a whole, the current situation in the chess world leaves a lot to be desired.
If, in our first match for the world champion's title, I had managed to make the score 6-0, there would have been no Kasparov as a good chess player at all.
I didn't know so well chess theory, the theory of chess openings. And so, of course I knew the theory, but not on the level of the best players, so this was my... this was always my weakness.
I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.
Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.
My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography again.
I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.
