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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 what
Fischer 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

As a writer, I'm driven by settings. Others are driven by characters or predicaments, but with me, settings come first. — Jim Lynch

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

Anyone who gives gifts locked by blood isn't ever going to give you a bath set. — Nalini Singh

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