Boys Quote by Mikhail Botvinnik

If Tal would learn to program himself properly, then it would become quite impossible to play against him.

— Mikhail Botvinnik

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

— 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…

— Mikhail Botvinnik

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

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

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

— Mikhail Botvinnik

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

— Mikhail Botvinnik

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

— Mikhail Botvinnik

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

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

— 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…

— Mikhail Botvinnik

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