Mikhail Botvinnik
Soviet chess player · Russia · Scientists · Lived 1911 to 1995 · aged 83
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Something wrong?He held the world chess title five times across three reigns and built the Soviet system that turned the game into a Cold War proving ground. His pupils were Karpov, Kasparov, and Kramnik.
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Mikhail Botvinnik 1962
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Botvinnik (1927)
Botvinnik gambit
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Mikhail Botvinnik - Mikhail Tal - World Championship 23th Moscovo (6), 1960-03-26 - wood handicraft chess board
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Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik was born August 17, 1911, and became the first world-class chess player to develop entirely within the Soviet Union. He won his sixth World Chess Championship and shaped the post-World War II title system, then engineered the coaching apparatus that made Soviet dominance inevitable for decades. He worked as an electrical engineer and computer scientist, pioneering computer chess and earning an honorary mathematics degree for it. His analytical method became doctrine. He died May 5, 1995, having trained three world champions and left a school in his image.
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