"Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion."

"To become a world chess champion."

"When I first visited Moscow in the late 1980s, I was so intimidated. I thought I could be checkmated by every cabdriver."

"But perhaps they were thrown off by my playing style, which was intuitive-and perhaps a little influenced by Vodka. I…"

"...in 2000, when I defeated Alexei Shirov at the World Chess Championship in Teheran to become the first Indian ever …"

"Since the 1990s technology has taken some of the sheen off the Russian trainers and their methods."

"One of the things I bring to my play is my Indian identity – my ability to shrug off a loss as destiny and hope for b…"

"I learned to play fast without agonizing about strategy or overanalyzing individual moves"

"I have what I think is an extremely Indian relationship with God....In Moscow before the tie breaker of the World Cha…"

"The fact is he outplayed me. He just proved to be stronger."