Mikhail Botvinnik
Soviet chess player
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Updated 2026-05-29
Soviet chess grandmaster who held the world title five times across three separate reigns. Also an electrical engineer obsessed with computer chess—basically the guy who proved chess players could do math too.
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Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster who held five world titles in three different reigns. The sixth World Chess Champion, he also worked as an electrical engineer and computer scientist and was a pioneer in computer chess, the last of which he was awarded an honorary mathematics degree for.
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