00:00I'm definitely very happy and also it's a very emotional moment for me because
00:15my grandfather who introduced me to chess just passed away last night
00:27he was very ill for the last five or a half years and the condition was quickly deteriorating
00:38yesterday I got the sad news
00:44I mean it was the reason I got it which is that he was always very supportive
00:50we supported him everywhere possible
00:54maybe eventually so well
01:01maybe by quality all games were quite shaky to be honest
01:07but
01:09it's rapid obviously
01:11yeah but
01:13maybe the one I am proudest about is my game against Vidit
01:17where I
01:19yeah probably against Vidit because I
01:24I kept playing and I
01:26of course with mistakes from him as well
01:29that's how
01:30that's your only chance at winning the game of chess
01:32but
01:33yeah I managed to kind of grind out
01:36a win out of pretty much nothing
01:38and yeah that was very pleasing there were some nice motives
01:41and
01:42yeah maybe for the best game
01:45maybe I could say that
01:47and
01:48yeah about the opportunity of course
01:50and
01:51in general I am very happy to
01:53get the chance to play in a strong tournament especially
01:55so
01:56it was pretty much a no brainer for me
01:58but
01:59yeah
02:00just always happy to
02:02always happy to play
02:04at the end of last year in Kolkata I had the feeling that
02:08I didn't take my limit
02:10coming to watch the tournament
02:12it's much harder than just playing it I think
02:15probably you are experiencing this now
02:18and
02:19I just wanted to play again
02:22and
02:23then
02:24I don't know how
02:25when I actually
02:26connected with
02:28Jeet about this
02:29but
02:30it must have been in Bombay
02:31because we were in Bombay together for another
02:33for another reason
02:34and then
02:35I mean
02:36I was giving a talk in Bombay
02:38and he was there so
02:39and
02:40then I mentioned that
02:42he is a great
02:43he looks like so
02:44something like that
02:45and
02:46we
02:47left the final decision later
02:48but I pretty much knew that
02:49it's better to
02:50take the decision rather than
02:52keep on
02:53and
02:54and
02:55I try to get ready
02:57the nice thing is
02:58this year it worked out that
02:59I had my
03:00I got this education
03:03in Jerusalem
03:04then
03:05I was going to play this year
03:06and then
03:07Kolkata
03:08Kolkata will be the third in the series
03:10and then you are warming up
03:11and
03:12my biggest problem recently is that
03:14after 7-8 months of
03:16not playing chess
03:17you forget that aspect
03:19I mean
03:21I sort of know
03:22what they are doing
03:23I can do commentary
03:24and
03:25my moves are going to be
03:26totally off
03:27but
03:28another thing
03:29when you are playing
03:30it's actually
03:31what am I going to do now
03:32what the opening
03:33I am not going to enter
03:34all these decisions
03:35you forget
03:36to take for a long time
03:40and
03:41so I am glad
03:42that the build up to it went very well
03:43and
03:45always a good start
03:46is the best
03:47and
03:48the game against Wesley
03:49really
03:50because
03:51it was a good game
03:52it was a tough opponent
03:53but
03:54there were many key decisions
03:55that I took there
03:56and
03:57I thought that was a good place
03:58to start
03:59modern chess
04:00is just very different
04:01it's not specific to them
04:02I mean
04:03even when Gelfand plays nowadays
04:04or I play
04:06we are most into the same thing
04:08it's a computerized way of playing chess
04:10it's part of everybody's
04:12it's not like I am playing old style
04:16or something like that
04:17everyone evolves
04:18and
04:19beyond that
04:21it's too
04:22it's too
04:23it's too
04:24it's too specific
04:25you
04:26you get up
04:27you think of a game
04:28you don't have the time to sit there
04:29and formulate on
04:30what could they have played like
04:3240 years earlier
04:33or something
04:34yes
04:35that change has happened
04:36but we have kind of moved on
04:37but it's true
04:40that
04:41you feel this more and more
04:42and trying to catch up this year
04:44I realized
04:45the same thing
04:46you know
04:47when I was brushing up on everything
04:48it's just
04:49so much new information
04:50and
04:51it floods you
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