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Professional players work almost every day, for hours on end, and the emphasis is on the word 'work.' It can be with a partner or it can be alone, but professional chess is always a pursuit of something new and surprising.
- Viswanathan Anand
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#Every Day
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Each match I play is the most important one yet.
- Viswanathan Anand
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#Most
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There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player.
- Viswanathan Anand
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I go to the gym every day. That tends to taper off when I'm at a tournament. During tournaments, I'm not trying to build fitness. I'm simply trying to keep away any kind of tension. I go for long walks to clear my head.
- Viswanathan Anand
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#Every Day
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#Trying
I think an important lesson from the game is that once you have made a move, you cannot take it back. You really have to measure your decisions. You think a lot. You evaluate your choices very carefully. There's never any guarantee about what's going to follow once you have made a decision.
- Viswanathan Anand
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#Choices
#Decision
#Game
#Important
There is technology where you can watch the match live online and also on TV. If people understood the game, I'm sure we would have a lot of chess fans by now.
- Viswanathan Anand
#Fans
#Game
#Live
#People
#Technology
In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.
- Viswanathan Anand
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#Fast
#Knowledge
#Sometimes
#Thing
In any match, there are few critical moments where there's no second best decision. The rest of the moves are intuitive.
- Viswanathan Anand
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#Decision
#Match
#Moments
#Rest
There are some aspects of work you need to keep working on and no matter what environment you are in. Continuous learning is very important. It's what I call 'competitive tension', which is about having a competition around.
- Viswanathan Anand
#Competition
#Important
#Learning
#Work
A win is a win, which is about that particular moment.
- Viswanathan Anand
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#Moment
#Particular
#Which
#Win
In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may lose in the first round itself.
- Viswanathan Anand
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#First
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#Round
When there's an important tournament going on, I try and stay in a bubble. It's easy that way because then you don't have to worry about anything else.
- Viswanathan Anand
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#Important
#Try
#Way
#Worry
My job is to play chess, the game that I love. I achieve what I can in chess. That is what I focus on. Basically, I am always focused on playing the game, and this is important to me.
- Viswanathan Anand
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#Game
#I Am
#Love
#Me
I keep forcing, I keep learning new things in the game, and so far I have been taking challenges as they come.
- Viswanathan Anand
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#Far
#Game
#Learning
#New
I don't know how many calories an average chess player burns per game, but it often exceeds that of a player in ball games. It is not only the chess as such: You need to be fit and undergo complicated preparation.
- Viswanathan Anand
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#Chess
#Game
#Know
#Preparation
The broader the chess player you are, the easier it is to be competitive, and the same seems to be true of mathematics - if you can find links between different branches of mathematics, it can help you resolve problems. In both mathematics and chess, you study existing theory and use that to go forward.
- Viswanathan Anand
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#Help
#Mathematics
#Problems
#True
Sometimes, if you are nervous, it could actually turn out to be a manifestation of your exhaustion. The point is that any setback is bad, but if you see it from a perspective, you'll recover.
- Viswanathan Anand
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#Perspective
#Point
#See
#Sometimes
I honestly don't remember when and why I started calling my mom 'Momsi'. These are family things; it starts for some reason. It's not that I just call her Momsi; I call her other things as well!
- Viswanathan Anand
#Family
#Mom
#Reason
#Remember
#Why
I attend to my fitness. I go the gym every day and try to maintain my physical fitness; without that, it is tough to take challenges on the chess board.
- Viswanathan Anand
#Challenges
#Day
#Every Day
#Fitness
#Tough
#Try
If revenge motivates you, go for it! But the main thing is to set your game in order.
- Viswanathan Anand
#Game
#Go For It
#Go
#Order
#Revenge
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