Botvinnik Quotes
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Botvinnik Quotes & Sayings
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A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
There isn't music without rhythm; have a soul that won't leave your lips without a song.
— Elizabeth Vongsaravanh
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
With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline
— Mikhail Botvinnik
Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
— Henrik Ibsen
Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists
— Mikhail Botvinnik
If Tal would learn to program himself properly, then it would become quite impossible to play against him.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
There's an all too human tendency to believe that what we know and experience now is the way it will and always should be.
— Nick Bilton
Botvinnik was a killer in chess.
— Yuri Averbakh
There is no better place for learning to work independently and to extend your horizon than in higher school.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
I only think well when my mind is calm.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
A knight ending is really a pawn ending.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
— Alexander Pope
Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed whatFischer had found with the greatest of ease at the board — Mikhail Botvinnik
CAN is 100 times more important than IQ
— Max Lucado
Along with my retirement from chess analytical work seems to have gone too.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately
— Mikhail Botvinnik
Words express only the feelings we know already.
— Marthe Bibesco
Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life.
— Chi Chi Rodriguez
Before Geller we did not understand the King's Indian Defence.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
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
God cares a lot more about who we are and who we are becoming than about who we once were.
— Dale G. Renlund
Chess is the art of analysis.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
