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When I started out playing chess as a kid I thought I should be world champion. As a kid you have no idea what that means and you only sort of picture it. It is hard to imagine that I waited all those years and it happened in a late stage of my career.

Viswanathan Anand
Mean, Kids, Years
"Devil's Advocate: Viswanathan Anand on mind games". CNN-IBN interview, en.chessbase.com. May 13, 2008.
When I started out playing chess as a kid I thought I should be world champion. As a kid you have no idea what that means and you only sort of picture it. It is hard to imagine that I waited all those years and it