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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
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
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
— Michael Jordan
We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.
— Anna Freud
I only think well when my mind is calm.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
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
God made me an Atheist
— Christopher Zzenn Loren
Yeah I took the spot she gone POOF
— Nicki Minaj
A knight ending is really a pawn ending.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
Botvinnik was a killer in chess.
— Yuri Averbakh
If Tal would learn to program himself properly, then it would become quite impossible to play against him.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists
— Mikhail Botvinnik
There is no better place for learning to work independently and to extend your horizon than in higher school.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
Chess is the art of analysis.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
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
Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all.
— 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
Before Geller we did not understand the King's Indian Defence.
— Mikhail Botvinnik