00:00I didn't have a great end of 2024, so I was really motivated for this event, and we also worked really hard for it, and I think it paid off, and I'm very happy that I managed to start the year with such a result. I'm hoping it continues.
00:20Yeah, there are a lot of tournaments coming up. I'll be playing Prague Masters next, so yeah, I'd like to take my confidence to the next tournaments.
00:30Yeah, Gukesh also played really well, and it was a very exciting tie-break, and the whole tournament, the whole last round and the whole tie-break, everything was exciting, so I think a huge congrats to him as well. He played a great tournament.
01:01Yeah, a little bit. We were discussing a bit about our game, and yeah, that's what we were discussing about, but we both were exhausted after all the 13 games, but also the tie-break.
01:13And you said last year there was some kind of stagnation. Even Adi Sir had said you were lagging a bit behind. So how did you motivate yourself? You said you were motivated, but how did you push? What was the motivating factor behind it?
01:43So you mentioned earlier that it was a very stressful day after finishing the finals of Prague Masters.
02:13Yeah, a very long day, and basically I had to play this long, classical and suffering game, which in itself is very tiring, plus the 12 rounds before that, and then I had to play the tie-break, so it was a very, very long day, and very stressful for sure.
02:29How did you manage to play Blitz?
02:59How do you plan for the next tournament?
03:29It's still a long way. First I need to make it to the Candidates, then win it, so I want to take one stage at a time.
