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Mikhail Botvinnik quotes: Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned.

Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned.

Mikhail Botvinnik quotes: If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it.

If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it.

Mikhail Botvinnik quotes: Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929.

Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929.

Mikhail Botvinnik quotes: Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

Mikhail Botvinnik quotes: Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.

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 quotes: With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop.

With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop.

Mikhail Botvinnik quotes: Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline

Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline

Mikhail Botvinnik quotes: A knight ending is really a pawn ending.

A knight ending is really a pawn ending.

Mikhail Botvinnik quotes: Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what Fischer had found with the greatest of ease at the board

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 quotes: If Tal would learn to program himself properly, then it would become quite impossible to play against him.

If Tal would learn to program himself properly, then it would become quite impossible to play against him.

Mikhail Botvinnik quotes: Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists

Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists

Mikhail Botvinnik quotes: There is no better place for learning to work independently and to extend your horizon than in higher school.

There is no better place for learning to work independently and to extend your horizon than in higher school.

Mikhail Botvinnik quotes: I only think well when my mind is calm.

I only think well when my mind is calm.

Mikhail Botvinnik quotes: Along with my retirement from chess analytical work seems to have gone too.

Along with my retirement from chess analytical work seems to have gone too.

Mikhail Botvinnik quotes: Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately

Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately

Mikhail Botvinnik quotes: Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all.

Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all.

Mikhail Botvinnik quotes: Before Geller we did not understand the King's Indian Defence.

Before Geller we did not understand the King's Indian Defence.

Mikhail Botvinnik quotes: It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.

It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.

Mikhail Botvinnik quotes: 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

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 quotes: Chess is the art of analysis.

Chess is the art of analysis.

Mikhail Botvinnik quotes: It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers.

It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers.