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Mikhail Botvinnik

Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik (Russian: Михаи́л Моисе́евич Ботви́нник, pronounced [mʲɪxɐˈil məɪˈsʲejɪvʲɪtɕ bɐˈtvʲinʲnʲɪk]; August 17 [O.S. August 4] 1911 – May 5, 1995) was a Soviet and Russian International Grandmaster and World Chess Champion for most of 1948 to 1963. Working as an electrical engineer and computer scientist at the same time, he was one of the very few professional chess players who achieved distinction in another career while playing top-class competitive chess. He was also a pioneer of computer chess.

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If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly, the work is far more complex than that needed to gain the title of Master.

Among, Chess, Complex, Master, Success, Titles

Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists

Chess, Large, Numbers, Professional, Violin, Violinists

With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop.

Bishop, Bishops, Effect, Opposites, Piece, Pieces

I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the great players and your own.

Chess, Encouraging, Games, Independent, Player, Players

You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development of chess, of chess culture.

Chess, Culture, History, Home, Practical, Success

Everything is in a state of flux, and this includes the world of Chess

Chess, Everything, Flux, States, World

If Tal would learn to program himself properly, then it would become quite impossible to play against him.

Impossible, Learn, Play, Program

Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.

Kids, Machine, Player, Strong

It must be clearly understood that Soviet players do not seek simple systems in the opening, but try to formulate opening systems in which everything is complicated, distinctive, or new.

Everything, Opening, Player, Simple, Trying, Understood

In short, we can see Karpov as an exploiter of other people’s ideas. His ability to use these ideas is not at issue, but he himself is about as fertile as a woman who has been sterilized is.

Ability, Ideas, Issues, People, Peoples

Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all.

Book, Memorization, Playing, Variation, Variations, Worse

If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.

Chess, Endgame, Games, Studies, Training

When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyse conctrete variations.

Conctrete, General, Internal, Opponents, Time, Variation

Along with my retirement from chess analytical work seems to have gone too.

Analysis, Analytical, Gone, Retirement

The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession

Boys, Chess, Named, Profession, Year, Years

Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability to organize their creative work

Chess, Creative, Effort, Organize, Success, Work

A knight ending is really a pawn ending.

Chess, Ending, Knight, Knights, Pawn, Pawns

Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

Art, Chess, Expresses, Logic

Above all else, before playing in competitions a player must have regard to his health, for if he is suffering from ill-health he cannot hope for success. In this connection the best of all tonics is 15 to 20 days in the fresh air, in the country.

Air, Connection, Country, Hope, Player, Playing

There is no better place for learning to work independently and to extend your horizon than in higher school.

Chess, Horizon, Independently, Learning, School

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