00:00Even being retired, playing simultaneous exhibitions and not losing since 2001.
00:06If you don't see an immediate win, an immediate breakthrough, just make a few quiet moves.
00:14Let your opponent play. Give them chance, without creating, of course, weakness on your side.
00:20Give them chance to weaken their position. That's one of the lessons from my early days.
00:30You have to see the big picture, but you have to feel what is the right spot where you have to concentrate.
00:37Also, you have to feel the climax of the game.
00:42That's one of the lessons I remember from Boris Spassky, another great world champion, who helped me with his unique advices.
00:50His theory was that the strength of the player at the current moment, it's his or her ability to identify the climax of the game.
01:01Because you have so much time available.
01:04In the good old days, we had two and a half hours for 40 moves.
01:09Now it's less time.
01:10But still, you have X amount of time, hours and minutes, allocated for completing all the moves.
01:19And you have to understand how to spend this time.
01:21You have to understand what is the right moment for you to spend more time.
01:26Sometimes you have to play fairly quickly, because this moment is not a crucial one.
01:33Because not every move, they have the same value in terms of identifying the course of the events.
01:43Some of the moments are absolutely vital.
01:46It's like reaching the crossroads.
01:49And if you miss your right turn, it will be like in the roads of Arizona.
01:55The next one will be 50 miles.
01:56So it's very important that you...
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