| Position |
Texte |
Auteur |
Commentaire(s) |
| 1 |
Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists. |
Mikhail Botvinnik |
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| 2 |
Chess is the art of analysis. |
Mikhail Botvinnik |
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| 3 |
Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic. |
Mikhail Botvinnik |
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| 4 |
The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov) doesnt have a clue about chess, and theres no future at all for him in this profession. |
Mikhail Botvinnik |
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| 5 |
Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing. |
Mikhail Botvinnik |
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| 6 |
Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then chess too will decline. |
Mikhail Botvinnik |
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| 7 |
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 |
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| 8 |
Everything is in a state of flux, and this includes the world of chess. |
Mikhail Botvinnik |
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| 9 |
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 |
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| 10 |
A knight ending is really a pawn ending. |
Mikhail Botvinnik |
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| 11 |
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. |
Mikhail Botvinnik |
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| 12 |
Along with my retirement from chess analytical work seems to have gone too. |
Mikhail Botvinnik |
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| 13 |
Before Geller we did not understand the King's Indian Defence. |
Mikhail Botvinnik |
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| 14 |
Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first. |
Mikhail Botvinnik |
(to Karpov & students, 1965) |
| 15 |
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 |
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| 16 |
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 |
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| 17 |
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 |
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