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🔹 Mikhail Botvinnik
🔹 Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster
🔹 6th World Chess Champion
🔰 Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster and World Chess Champion for most of 1948 to 1963.
🔘Full name: Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik
🔘Country: Soviet Union
🔘Born:
🔻August 17, 1911
🔻Kuokkala, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire
🔘Died:
🔻May 5, 1995 (aged 83)
🔻Moscow, Russia
🔘Title: Grandmaster
🔘World Champion:
🔻1948–1957
🔻1958–1960
🔻1961–1963
🔘Peak rating 2660 (January 1971)
🔰Mikhail Moiseevich Botvinnik was born in St Petersburg, Russia in 1911. He learned to play chess at the age of 12. An electrical engineer by training, he was the first Russian to hold the World Championship title after he won the 1948 tournament following the death of Alexander Alekhine. He held on to the world title until his defeat by Petrosian in 1963, except for two occasions when he lost the title for one year, to Smyslov (1957 - 1958) and Tal (1960 - 1961). Botvinnik was very serious about chess and never played for fun.
🔰After his defeat to Petrosian he trained other Soviet players and devised a training programme. He advocated practicing with strong players, studying master games, publicizing analysis to be criticized by others, learning to handle the clock to avoid time trouble and to concentrate in spite of disturbances. Although he was a non-smoker, he often practiced with heavy smokers to practice his ability to concentrate in adverse situations. He also stressed the importance of regular physical activity to maintain fitness. In 1970 he gave up playing in order to concentrate on the development of chess computers.
🔰Botvinnik served as a consultant to Soviet computer chess developers who developed an early program at ITEP (Moscow Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics) which won a correspondence chess match against a Stanford University chess program led by John McCarthy in 1967. Later he advised the team that created the chess prorgram Kaissa at Moscow’s Institute for Control Science.
♦️A memorable game by Botvinik👇
🔸Mikhail Botvinnik vs David Bronstein
🔸Botvinnik - Bronstein World Championship Match (1951), Moscow URS, rd 23, May-08
🔸King's Indian Defense: Fianchetto Variation (E60)
♦️An informative game about two bishops vs two knights in endgame fighting!!
♦️Review and download PGN file👇
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🔹 Mikhail Botvinnik
🔹 Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster
🔹 6th World Chess Champion
🔰 Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster and World Chess Champion for most of 1948 to 1963.
🔘Full name: Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik
🔘Country: Soviet Union
🔘Born:
🔻August 17, 1911
🔻Kuokkala, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire
🔘Died:
🔻May 5, 1995 (aged 83)
🔻Moscow, Russia
🔘Title: Grandmaster
🔘World Champion:
🔻1948–1957
🔻1958–1960
🔻1961–1963
🔘Peak rating 2660 (January 1971)
🔰Mikhail Moiseevich Botvinnik was born in St Petersburg, Russia in 1911. He learned to play chess at the age of 12. An electrical engineer by training, he was the first Russian to hold the World Championship title after he won the 1948 tournament following the death of Alexander Alekhine. He held on to the world title until his defeat by Petrosian in 1963, except for two occasions when he lost the title for one year, to Smyslov (1957 - 1958) and Tal (1960 - 1961). Botvinnik was very serious about chess and never played for fun.
🔰After his defeat to Petrosian he trained other Soviet players and devised a training programme. He advocated practicing with strong players, studying master games, publicizing analysis to be criticized by others, learning to handle the clock to avoid time trouble and to concentrate in spite of disturbances. Although he was a non-smoker, he often practiced with heavy smokers to practice his ability to concentrate in adverse situations. He also stressed the importance of regular physical activity to maintain fitness. In 1970 he gave up playing in order to concentrate on the development of chess computers.
🔰Botvinnik served as a consultant to Soviet computer chess developers who developed an early program at ITEP (Moscow Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics) which won a correspondence chess match against a Stanford University chess program led by John McCarthy in 1967. Later he advised the team that created the chess prorgram Kaissa at Moscow’s Institute for Control Science.
♦️A memorable game by Botvinik👇
🔸Mikhail Botvinnik vs David Bronstein
🔸Botvinnik - Bronstein World Championship Match (1951), Moscow URS, rd 23, May-08
🔸King's Indian Defense: Fianchetto Variation (E60)
♦️An informative game about two bishops vs two knights in endgame fighting!!
♦️Review and download PGN file👇
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The U.S. Team at Folkestone 1933. (l-r) Dake, Kashdan and his wife, Simonson, Marshall, and Fine.
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☑️ World Student Team Championship (1960), Leningrad
⚪️🇷🇺 Boris Spassky
⚫️🇺🇸 William James Lombardy
Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation (B94)
Result : 0-1
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⚪️🇷🇺 Boris Spassky
⚫️🇺🇸 William James Lombardy
Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation (B94)
Result : 0-1
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In positions of strategic maneuvering seek the worst placed piece. Activating that piece is often the most reliable way of improving your position.
🔸 Mark Dvoretsky & Artur Yusupov (1996).
"Positional Play"
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🔸 Mark Dvoretsky & Artur Yusupov (1996).
"Positional Play"
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☑️ Prague Olympiad (Men) 1931
⚪️🇷🇺 Alexander Alekhine
⚫️🇦🇹 Ernst Gruenfeld
Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense. Exchange Variation "D41"
Result : 1-0
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⚪️🇷🇺 Alexander Alekhine
⚫️🇦🇹 Ernst Gruenfeld
Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense. Exchange Variation "D41"
Result : 1-0
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The Sinquefield Cup sees Magnus Carlsen and 9 more of the world’s best players compete in the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis from 18-27 August 2018.
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17... g6?
A miscalculation. He should have played 17... Rf7! -+
A)18. Nxg7 Ne4 19. Qf3 Nd6 20. Bxf7+ Kxg7 21.Bd5 Bxd5 22. Qxd5 Qxc3 23.Bh6+ Kxh6 24. Qe6+ Kg7 25. Qxe7+ Nf7 -+
B)18. Ng5 Bd5 19. Bxd5 Nxd5 20. Nxf7 Kxf7 21.Qf3+ Nf6 -+
18. Nxf8+ Kxf8 19. Bh6+ Ke8 20. Re1 Qb8 21.Bf4 +-
A miscalculation. He should have played 17... Rf7! -+
A)18. Nxg7 Ne4 19. Qf3 Nd6 20. Bxf7+ Kxg7 21.Bd5 Bxd5 22. Qxd5 Qxc3 23.Bh6+ Kxh6 24. Qe6+ Kg7 25. Qxe7+ Nf7 -+
B)18. Ng5 Bd5 19. Bxd5 Nxd5 20. Nxf7 Kxf7 21.Qf3+ Nf6 -+
18. Nxf8+ Kxf8 19. Bh6+ Ke8 20. Re1 Qb8 21.Bf4 +-
28... Bxc3??
This move leads to loss of material and the game.
28... Nd7 29. c5 Rd8=
29. bxc5 Be5 30. f4 Bg7 31. cxd6 Rxd6
32. Bc5 Rxd1 33. Bxf8 Rd2+ 34. Kh3 Bxf8 35. c5 Rdd8 36. Qb6 Rdc8 37. Qa7 Bg7
38. c6 bxc6 39. Rxc6 Rd8 40. Qxa6 1-0
This move leads to loss of material and the game.
28... Nd7 29. c5 Rd8=
29. bxc5 Be5 30. f4 Bg7 31. cxd6 Rxd6
32. Bc5 Rxd1 33. Bxf8 Rd2+ 34. Kh3 Bxf8 35. c5 Rdd8 36. Qb6 Rdc8 37. Qa7 Bg7
38. c6 bxc6 39. Rxc6 Rd8 40. Qxa6 1-0