Mikhail Botvinnik Quotes
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I once knew a man who stole a Ferris Wheel...
— Dashiell Hammett
The guy who doesn't wear a seat belt doesn't wear a condom. You should put one on.
— Chris Kasparoza
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
Before, it was just about making the films - and now it's releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve.
— Jessica Chastain
Yes, Dr. King is pro-gun just as surely as Jesus would be pro-nails.
— Stephen Colbert
A knight ending is really a pawn ending.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
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
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
There are a lot of other people that really play a significant role in helping you become an Olympian.
— Jackie Joyner-Kersee
I'm famous, so I can't, like, really walk around in malls and stuff like that. I don't really have as much privacy.
— Avril Lavigne
It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.
— 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
But handsome is as handsome does, as we say in the Shire; and I daresay we shall all look much the same after lying for days in hedges and ditches.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Before Geller we did not understand the King's Indian Defence.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
Rain never falls on a cloud.
— Marty Rubin
