🔹 Mikhail Botvinnik
🔹 Russian-Soviet Chess Grandmaster and Electrical Engineer
♦️ Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik was a Soviet and Russian International 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 (now Repino, Russia)
▪️ Died: May 5, 1995 (aged 83)
Moscow, Russia
▪️ Title: Grandmaster
▪️ World Champion: 1948–1957 // 1958–1960 // 1961–1963
▪️ Peak rating: 2660 (January 1971)
♦️ Reuben Fine, writing in 1976, observed that Botvinnik was at or near the top of the chess world for thirty years—from 1933, when he drew a match against Flohr, to 1963, when he lost the world championship for the final time, to Petrosian—"a feat equaled historically only by Emanuel Lasker and Wilhelm Steinitz".
♦️ A memorable game by Botvinnik👇🏼👇🏼
🔸 Mikhail Botvinnik vs Alexander Alekhine
🔸 AVRO (1938), The Netherlands, rd 7, Nov-15
🔸 Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense. Pillsbury Variation (D41)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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🔹 Russian-Soviet Chess Grandmaster and Electrical Engineer
♦️ Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik was a Soviet and Russian International 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 (now Repino, Russia)
▪️ Died: May 5, 1995 (aged 83)
Moscow, Russia
▪️ Title: Grandmaster
▪️ World Champion: 1948–1957 // 1958–1960 // 1961–1963
▪️ Peak rating: 2660 (January 1971)
♦️ Reuben Fine, writing in 1976, observed that Botvinnik was at or near the top of the chess world for thirty years—from 1933, when he drew a match against Flohr, to 1963, when he lost the world championship for the final time, to Petrosian—"a feat equaled historically only by Emanuel Lasker and Wilhelm Steinitz".
♦️ A memorable game by Botvinnik👇🏼👇🏼
🔸 Mikhail Botvinnik vs Alexander Alekhine
🔸 AVRO (1938), The Netherlands, rd 7, Nov-15
🔸 Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense. Pillsbury Variation (D41)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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Chess is not an Olympic sport, but chess tourneys were held in conjunction with the Olympic games, starting at Paris, 1900. Lasker won that 17-player event. Two tournaments were held at St Louis, 1904. Marshall and Mlotkowski won those events. Alekhine won at Stockholm 1912.
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26th USSR Championship, Tbilisi, Feb 1959. Runner-up Mikhail Tal receives his award from Georgian communist party official Zinaida Kvachadze. In the background are Petrosian (the winner of the event), Keres, Kholmov, Vasiukov...
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Winners of the 1982 Womens' Chess Olympiad in Lucerne- the USSR. Left to right: Maia Chiburdanidze, Nana Alexandria, Nona Gaprindashvili, Nana Ioselani - all from the Georgian SSR.
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James Tarjan took a 30 year break from chess. In 1984 he gave it up to become a librarian. He returned in 2014 & defeated Kramnik in 2017.
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