Mikhail Botvinnik Quotes

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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.

Mikhail Botvinnik

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.

Mikhail Botvinnik

It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.

Mikhail Botvinnik

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.

Mikhail Botvinnik

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

Mikhail Botvinnik

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.

Mikhail Botvinnik

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.

Mikhail Botvinnik

Mikhail Botvinnik

Mikhail Botvinnik

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Born: August 17, 1911

Died: May 5, 1995 (aged 83)

Bio: Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik was a Soviet and Russian International Grandmaster and World Chess Champion for most of 1948 to 1963.

Known for:

One hundred selected games
Half a century of chess (1984)

Mikhail Botvinnik on Wikipedia

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