Quotes by Mikhail Botvinnik - Page 1

Chess is the art of analysis.
Mikhail Botvinnik / Chess Player
Art
Analysis
Chess
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I only think well when my mind is calm.
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Calm
Mind
Thinking
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A knight ending is really a pawn ending.
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Chess
Knights
Pawns
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Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned.
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Chess
Taught
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Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.
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Art
Chess
Logic
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Before Geller we did not understand the King's Indian Defence.
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Kings
Chess
Defence
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Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929.
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Blitz
Chess
Games
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Everything is in a state of flux, and this includes the world of Chess
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Chess
States
World
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Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately
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Analysis
Chess
Mastery
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Along with my retirement from chess analytical work seems to have gone too.
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Analysis
Gone
Retirement
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If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it.
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Ifs
Pieces
Sacrifice
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Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline
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Chess
Culture
Decline
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Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists
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Chess
Numbers
Violin
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It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers.
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Followers
Peculiar
Style
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It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.
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Chess
Class
Player
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With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop.
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Bishops
Opposites
Pieces
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If Tal would learn to program himself properly, then it would become quite impossible to play against him.
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Impossible
Play
Program
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There is no better place for learning to work independently and to extend your horizon than in higher school.
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Chess
Horizon
School
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Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all.
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Book
Memorization
Variation
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Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what Fischer had found with the greatest of ease at the board
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Analysis
Boards
Chess
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Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.
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Kids
Player
Strong
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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
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Boys
Chess
Years
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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.
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Time
Opponents
Variation
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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 great players and your own.
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Games
Independent
Player
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You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development of chess theory, of chess culture.
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Home
Culture
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Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible.
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Moving
Variation
Years
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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.
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Chess
Games
Middle
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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
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Creative
Effort
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It must be clearly understood that Soviet players do not seek simple systems in the opening, but try to formulate opening systems in which everything is complicated, distinctive, or new.
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Player
Simple
Trying
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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 himself is about as fertile as a woman who has been sterilized is.
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Ideas
Issues
People
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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.
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Chess
Games
Training
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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.
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Success
Chess
Gains
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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 unique beauty of genuine depth.
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Games
Play
Unique
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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 for success. In this connection the best of all tonics is 15 to 20 days in the fresh air, in the country.
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Air
Country
Player
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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 world over. Unfortunately, it must also be noted that, for today's chessmasters, the watchword is practicality.
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Analysis
Movement
Triumph
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I ... have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been significantly greater. I can play chess well only when I have fully convalesced from chess and when the 'hunger for chess' once more awakens within me.
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Success
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Engineering
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