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The interview was published on World ChessYouTube channel. Find below transcripts of three fragments, followed bythe embedded video.

On his reasons for retirement:

After playing the Candidates Tournament in 2018, where I really gave a lot on the chessboard and played a lot of exciting games, it was quite a performance. Actually, that was a turning point. After this tournament, I felt I had nothing left to give to chess. I dont know how to explain it, its a kind of feeling, that I felt empty after that. So I played a few more tournaments, and the feeling was still there and growing. [...] I stopped feeling that it was an important part of my life.

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On playing against Kasparov, Anand and Carlsen:

Im very happy that I was part of Kasparovs generation, I played with Kasparov a lot. [...] And also, of course, Viswanathan Anand, who is also absolutely great maybe a little bit underestimated, but I consider from the pure talent [point of view], the most talented player in the last fifty years. And, then, also such a great player like Magnus Carlsen, who is also completely unique.

[...] Im not trying to be polite, but I dont consider myself of the same level. Im good, of course, very good, but Im not Kasparov, not Carlsen, and also by talent not Vishy Anand.

On Magnus Carlsen:

I fully understand what a great player, if we are talking about Magnus, is here. Maybe after fifty years or a hundred years he will be a god, you know, a god of chess, like now Morphy. When you live in this era, when you see him every day, then maybe you dont measure it. But I understand that this is a player whichis born once in a century. [...] He just changed chess. Chess is him in the last ten to fifteenyears. Chess is Magnus Carlsen.

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