Acclaim Quote by Mikhail Botvinnik

The best chess masters of every epoch have been closely linked with the values of the society in which they lived and worked. All…

— Garry Kasparov

By strictly observing Botvinnik's rule regarding the thorough analysis of one's own games, with the years I have come to realize that this provides…

— Garry Kasparov

Chess is the art of analysis.

— Mikhail Botvinnik

Like Dvoretsky, I think that (all other things being equal), the analytical method of studying chess must give you a colossal advantage over the…

— Garry Kasparov

His teaching became a turning point in chess history: it was from Steinitz that the era of modern chess began. The contribution of the…

— Garry Kasparov

In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented…

— Pal Benko

In so-called communist Romania, chess was held in high esteem, even if our champions were weaker than the Soviets. This game, this "sport of…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.

— Howard Staunton

Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity

— Vladimir Nabokov

Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being…

— George Steiner

“While reading Kasparov’s book How Life Imitates Chess on my Kindle, I idly clicked on “popular highlights” to see what passages other readers had…

— Clive Thompson

Chess reflects the real world in miniature. Endeavor, struggle, success, and defeat - they are part of each game ever played.

— Bruce Pandolfini