If Tal would learn to program himself properly, then it would become quite impossible to play against him. — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
I ... have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it. — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Above all else, before playing in competitions a player must have regard to his health, for if he is suffering from ill-health… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
If Tal would learn to program himself properly, then it would become quite impossible to play against him. — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929. — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
It must be clearly understood that Soviet players do not seek simple systems in the opening, but try to formulate opening systems in which… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
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… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
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… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory which is… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Along with my retirement from chess analytical work seems to have gone too. — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Everything is in a state of flux, and this includes the world of Chess — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers. — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
The triumph of the analytical movement, which formed in the '30's and '40's, was precisely what earned the Soviet masters the acclaim of chessplayers… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
