Mikhail Botvinnik Quotes About Chess

Quotes about: Chess

• Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Art, Chess, Logic

• 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

  Games, Training, Chess

  Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.11, Courier Corporation

• Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Culture, Chess, Decline

• Chess is the art of analysis.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Art, Analysis, Chess

  Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.11, Courier Corporation

• Before Geller we did not understand the King's Indian Defence.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Kings, Chess, Defence

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

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Retirement, Analysis, Gone

• Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Moving, Years, Variation

• Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Chess, Taught

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

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  School, Horizon, Chess

  Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.9, Courier Corporation

• Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Mastery, Analysis, Chess

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

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Book, Memorization, Variation

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

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Opposites, Bishops, Pieces

• Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Games, Chess, Blitz

• Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what
  Fischer had found with the greatest of ease at the board

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Chess, Boards, Analysis

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

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Player, Class, Chess

  Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.11, Courier Corporation

• 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

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Success, Effort, Creative

• Capablanca's play produced and still produces an irresistable artistic effect. In his games a tendency towards simplicity predominated, and in this simplicity there was a unique beauty of genuine depth.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Unique, Games, Play

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

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  World, Chess, States

• 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

  Success, Chess, Gains

  Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Numbers, Chess, Violin

• 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

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Boys, Years, Chess

• Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory which is closely linked with plans for the middle game.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Games, Chess, Middle

• 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.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Time, Variation, Opponents

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

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Strong, Kids, Player

• It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Style, Peculiar, Followers

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