Mikhail Botvinnik Citas

• Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Art, Chess, Logic

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• Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Chess, Taught

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• If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Sacrifice, Pieces, Ifs

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• Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Mastery, Analysis, Chess

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• If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Games, Training, Chess

  Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• Chess is the art of analysis.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Art, Analysis, Chess

  Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• Cuando el reloj de mi adversario está en marcha, discuto las consideraciones generales en un diálogo interno conmigo mismo. Cuando mi propio reloj está en marcha, analizo las variantes conctretas.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Time, Variation, Opponents

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• Afirmo que ninguna otra cosa es tan eficaz para fomentar el crecimiento de la fuerza ajedrecística como el análisis independiente, tanto de las partidas de los grandes jugadores como de las suyas propias.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Independent, Player, Games

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• Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability to organize their creative work

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Success, Effort, Creative

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• En resumen, podemos ver a Karpov como un explotador de las ideas de otras personas. Su capacidad para utilizar esas ideas no está en cuestión, pero él mismo es tan fértil como una mujer esterilizada.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Issues, Ideas, People

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• If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly, the work is far more complex than that needed to gain the title of Master.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Success, Chess, Gains

  Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• I only think well when my mind is calm.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Thinking, Mind, Calm

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• Yo... tengo dos vocaciones: el ajedrez y la ingeniería. Si sólo jugara al ajedrez, creo que mi éxito no habría sido mucho mayor. Sólo podré jugar bien al ajedrez cuando esté totalmente convaleciente del ajedrez y cuando vuelva a despertarse en mí el "hambre de ajedrez".

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Success, Believe, Engineering

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• It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Style, Peculiar, Followers

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• Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Games, Chess, Blitz

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• It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Player, Class, Chess

  Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• El fenomenal algoritmo de búsqueda de jugadas de Capablanca en aquellos primeros años, cuando poseía una maravillosa habilidad para calcular variantes muy rápidamente, le hizo invencible.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Moving, Years, Variation

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• With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Opposites, Bishops, Pieces

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• A todo gran maestro le resultará útil tener su propia teoría sobre las aperturas, que sólo él conoce, una teoría que está estrechamente ligada a los planes para el medio juego.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Games, Chess, Middle

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• Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Culture, Chess, Decline

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• El chico (entonces un niño de 12 años llamado Anatoly Karpov) no tiene ni idea de ajedrez, y no tiene ningún futuro en esta profesión.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Boys, Years, Chess

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• If Tal would learn to program himself properly, then it would become quite impossible to play against him.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Play, Impossible, Program

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• Hay que acostumbrarse al estudio práctico en casa, hay que dedicar tiempo a los estudios, a la historia del ajedrez, al desarrollo de la teoría del ajedrez, de la cultura del ajedrez.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Success, Home, Culture

  "Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games".

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• Above all else, before playing in competitions a player must have regard to his health, for if he is suffering from ill-health he cannot hope for success. In this connection the best of all tonics is 15 to 20 days in the fresh air, in the country.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Country, Player, Air

  Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Chess, Boards, Analysis

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