Mikhail Botvinnik Quotes

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• 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…
• Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.
• Chess is the art of analysis.
• Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists
• 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…
• Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately
• Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline
• 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…
• Everything is in a state of flux, and this includes the world of Chess
• 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,…
• Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929.
• If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it.
• 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…
• It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.
• If Tal would learn to program himself properly, then it would become quite impossible to play against him.
• 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…
• Along with my retirement from chess analytical work seems to have gone too.
• 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…
• 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 the…
• With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop.

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