Michael Botvinnik

6th World Chess Champion

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.More Michael Botvinnik quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned.More Michael Botvinnik quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all.More Michael Botvinnik quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

If Tal would learn to program himself properly, then it would become quite impossible to play against him.More Michael Botvinnik quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

A knight ending is really a pawn ending.More Michael Botvinnik quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

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Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist. [03/29/2018 05:03:36] More

To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another. [03/29/2018 05:03:36] More

The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle's wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel. [03/29/2018 05:03:36] More

We have in our head something called story grammar. We see the world as a series of episodes rather than logical propositions... In our serious society, storytelling is seen as being soft. But people process the world through story. [03/29/2018 05:03:36] More

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves. [03/29/2018 05:03:36] More