Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Alexander Kotov
Born: August 12, 1913
Died: January 8, 1981 (aged 67)
Bio: Alexander Alexandrovich Kotov was a Soviet chess grandmaster and author. He was a Soviet champion, a two-time world title Candidate, and a prolific chess author.
Known for:
- Think like a grandmaster (1971)
- Play Like A Grandmaster (1978)
- The Art of the Middle Game (1964)
- The Soviet school of chess
- Grandmaster At Work