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. Mikhail Botvinnik More Quotes by Mikhail Botvinnik More Quotes From Mikhail Botvinnik Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic. Mikhail Botvinnik logic chess art 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. Mikhail Botvinnik training games chess If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it. Mikhail Botvinnik sacrifice pieces ifs Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned. Mikhail Botvinnik taught chess 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. Mikhail Botvinnik variation opponents time Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately Mikhail Botvinnik mastery analysis chess 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. Mikhail Botvinnik issues people ideas 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. Mikhail Botvinnik engineering success believe 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 Mikhail Botvinnik effort creative success Chess is the art of analysis. Mikhail Botvinnik analysis chess art 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. Mikhail Botvinnik gains chess success Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929. Mikhail Botvinnik blitz games chess Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline Mikhail Botvinnik decline chess culture 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. Mikhail Botvinnik middle games chess Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what Mikhail Botvinnik analysis boards chess 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 Mikhail Botvinnik chess boys years 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. Mikhail Botvinnik independent player games It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts. Mikhail Botvinnik player chess class Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible. Mikhail Botvinnik variation years moving With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop. Mikhail Botvinnik bishops pieces opposites
