Mikhail Botvinnik

Author : Isaak Linder,Vladimir Linder
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-11
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781949859171

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Mikhail Botvinnik: Sixth World Chess Champion by Isaak Linder,Vladimir Linder Pdf

The Patriarch of Soviet Chess From the mid-1930s to the early 1960s, one man towered above all other chessplayers. That was the sixth world chess champion, Mikhail Botvinnik. His calm, deep analytical approach, supplemented by careful attention to his mental and physical conditioning served him well throughout his career. Now, in the sixth volume of the World Chess Champions Series by Isaak and Vladimir Linder, you will learn all about the chess advances and achievements of the Patriarch of Soviet chess, about his life and scholarly pursuit, and his contributions to the various phases of the game – opening, middlegame and endgame. Botvinnik was no less influential when he assumed the role of teacher. Graduates of his school included such powerful players as Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, Sergei Tiviakov and Alexei Shirov. This book presents almost 150 of Botvinnik’s best games and endings, with fresh annotations by German grandmaster Karsten Müller, along with crosstables and many archival photographs. We invite you on journey to explore the life and games of one of the greatest and most influential world champions ever.

Author : Mikhail Tal
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-12
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781936490165

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Tal-Botvinnik 1960 by Mikhail Tal Pdf

One of the greatest books ever written about a world championship match. In 1960 Mikhail Botvinnik was the pillar of "scientific " chess and the ironwilled champion of the world. The young attacking genius Mihail Tal, the "Wizard of Riga," put the magic back into the game by defeating Botvinnik with spectacular tactics in one of the most dramatic and celebrated world championship matches of all time. This is Tal's own classic work on the contest. In it he sets the stage and explains every one of the 21 games, telling both the on- and off-the-board story of this tatanic clash of styles and thought. Take a trip with the Magician from Riga as he invites you to share his thoughts and feelings as he does battle for the world title. "Mikhail Tal's splendid account of his world championship match victory is one of the masterpieces of the golden age of annotation - before insights and feelings and flashes of genius were reduced to mere moves and Informant symbols. This is simply the best book written about a world championship match by a contestant. That shouldn't be a surprise because Tal was the finest writer to become world champion." - From the Foreword by International Grandmaster Andy Soltis

Author : Andy Soltis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-07
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781476613581

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Mikhail Botvinnik by Andy Soltis Pdf

The games of Mikhail Botvinnik, world chess champion from 1948 to 1963, have been studied by players around the world for decades. But little has been written about Botvinnik himself. This book explores his unusual dual career--as a highly regarded scientist as well as the first truly professional chess player--as well as his complex relations with Soviet leaders, including Josef Stalin, his bitter rivalries, and his doomed effort to create the perfect chess-playing computer program. The book has more than 85 games, 127 diagrams, twelve photographs, a chronology of his life and career, a bibliography, an index of openings, an index of opponents, and a general index.

Author : Mikhail Botvinnik
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1960-01-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0486206203

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One Hundred Selected Games by Mikhail Botvinnik Pdf

World champion who dominated chess in the 1940s and '50s selects and annotates his own best games to 1946. 221 diagrams.

Author : Mikhail Botvirnnik
Publisher : Everyman Chess Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1781943338

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Half a Century of Chess by Mikhail Botvirnnik Pdf

In this collection of his best games, former world champion Mikhail Botvinnik demonstrates the deep strategic style that took him to the title. Written by one of the greatest players of all time Contains 90 annotated games from Botvinnik's career Includes victories over Capablanca, Alekhine, Smyslov, Tal and Petrosian Incorporates background material on key personalities and events

Author : Michail M. Botvinnik
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781468462456

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Computers, Chess and Long-Range Planning by Michail M. Botvinnik Pdf

Mihail Moiseevich Botvinnik is an electrical engineer by profession; during World War II he headed a high-tension laboratory in the Urals and was decorated by the USSR for his accomplishments. At present, he is the head of the alternating-current machine laboratory at the Moscow Institute of Power Engineering. He is also a world-renowned chess player. He was born in 1911, and by 1935 had become a Grandmaster of Soviet chess. In 1948 he won the world chess championship and held the title until 1963 (except for a two-year break). His chess style has been characterized as deep, objective, serious, and courageous. In this book, the quality of his thinking is revealed in his study of the basic thought processes of master chess players, and his reduction of these processes to mathematical form. This formalization of thought processes is a contribution to science at three levels: at the immediate level, it provides a basis for a computer program that seems likely to succeed in playing chess; at the middle level, game-playing programs help us to study and rationalize the processes of planning and decision-making; and, at the highest level, the study of the mind in action, as in the game of chess, leads to an understanding of human thought and of the human psyche.

Author : Mikhail Botvinnik
Publisher : New In Chess,Csi
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9056912712

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Botvinnik-Smyslov by Mikhail Botvinnik Pdf

World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik writes the story of his three clashes for the world title with fellow Russian Vasily Smyslov. Botvinnik, one of the greatest chess players of all time, analyses all the games, reveals his match strategy, and comments on the strategic choices of his opponent. Not only an important historical document on the pinnacle of chess of the mid-20th century, but also a fascinating and highly instructive report.

Author : Mikhail Moiseevich Botvinnik
Publisher : Pergamon
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015066016513

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Achieving the Aim by Mikhail Moiseevich Botvinnik Pdf

Author : Mikhail Moiseevich Botvinnik
Publisher : New In Chess,Csi
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Chess
ISBN : UOM:39076002897127

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Botvinnik - Petrosian by Mikhail Moiseevich Botvinnik Pdf

World Chess Champion Mikhail Botvinnik writes the story of the 1963 match in which he lost his title to fellow Russian Tigran Petrosian. Botvinnik, one of the greatest chess players of all time, analyses the games, reveals his match strategy and comments on the strategic choices of his opponent. Botvinnik's revealing essay: ?Why In lost the match? is counterbalanced by Petrosian's analysis of his win, which is also included in this important historical document. A fascinating and highly instructive report.

Author : Mihails Tāls
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Chess
ISBN : 0890580324

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Tal-Botvinnik by Mihails Tāls Pdf

Author : Mikhail Botvinnik
Publisher : Ishi Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 4871875164

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Botvinnik's Best Games 1947-1970 by Mikhail Botvinnik Pdf

Mikhail Botvinnik won the World Chess Championship in 1948 and held the title with two breaks until 1963. Botvinnik announced his retirement from chess in 1970. This book covers the entire period when Botvinnik waa World Chess Champion. Of the great postwar chess players, one figure stands out above all others - the Soviet grandmaster, Mikhail Botvinnik. With the exception of two one-year interludes this dedicated electrical engineer was world champion for fifteen years - from 1948 to 1963; on the second occasion that he regained his title - from Tal - he was in his fiftieth year. It was not, however, until 1970 that he announced his "official retirement" from international competition. "Chess." wrote Botvinnik, "is an art which illustrates the beauty of logic." He could not abide errors which spoiled the beauty of the game, and the secret of his success was thorough preparation and routine, which fully justified his own self-confidence - and which were systematically adopted by the Soviet school. In controlled positional play, Botvinnik was an incomparable virtuoso - as Bronstein, Smyslov, and Tal, among many others, discovered. Above all, he was a perfectionist. Prefaced by a short biography, this volume - the first ever published in English presents over 100 of Botvinnik's best games over the period 1947 to 1970. Nearly all the annotations are by Botvinnik himself, and they reveal the qualities that won him the champion's title. Botvinnik's Best Games is, perhaps, the outstanding collection of the decade.

Author : Mikhail Moiseevich Botvinnik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Chess
ISBN : 807189317X

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Botvinnik's Best Games by Mikhail Moiseevich Botvinnik Pdf

Author : Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik
Publisher : Ishi Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 4871875830

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Botvinnik One Hundred Selected Games by Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik Pdf

Covers Botvinnik's chess career from his first serious games to just before winning the World Chess Championship in 1948.

Author : William Winter,Robert G. Wade
Publisher : Ishi Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02
Category : Games
ISBN : 4871878295

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The World Chess Championship 1951 Botvinnik V. Bronstein by William Winter,Robert G. Wade Pdf

The 1951 match for the World Chess Championship was exceptionally hard fought. Each player won 5 games and the remaining 14 games were drawn. The match ended in a 12-12 tie and, under the rules, the champion, Botvinnik, retained his title. A new appendix has been added to the end of this book with all the games converted to Algebraic notation and the concluded diagram for each game. Rumors that have persisted that Bronstein was forced to resign that match by some higher political authority resulted in a book and a movie that depicted the supposed event. The book and movie is "From Russia with Love" by Ian Fleming. It is part of the long running James Bond Agent 007 Series. Kronsteen, unlike the real life David Bronstein, is given the assignment of planning the murder of James Bond, who has been giving the Soviets trouble for a long time. This ultimately leads to the death of Kronsteen in the movie, unlike Bronstein who obeyed the order and thus was allowed to live to a ripe old age. According to the plan worked out by Kronsteen, a beautiful Russian girl would be sent as a lure to James Bond. While this plot line may seem ridiculous, it was not entirely untrue. The Soviets did in reality use beautiful women as bait to entrap Americans, as was the case of a real spy the Russians sent to us recently, Anna Chapman.

Author : Andre Schulz
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-11
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9789056916367

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The Big Book of World Chess Championships by Andre Schulz Pdf

Wilhelm Steinitz, the winner of the first official World Chess Championship in 1886, would have rubbed his eyes in disbelieve if he could have seen how popular chess is today. With millions of players all around the world, live internet transmissions of major and minor competitions, and educational programs in thousands of schools, chess has truly become a global passion. And what would Steinitz, who had financial problems his whole life and died in poverty, have thought of the current world champion, Magnus Carlsen, who became a multi-millionaire in his early twenties just by playing great chess? The history of the World Chess Championship reflects these enormous changes, and Andre Schulz tells the stories of the title fights in fascinating detail: the historical and social backgrounds, the prize money and the rules, the seconds and other helpers, and the psychological wars on and off the board. Relive the magic of Capablanca, Alekhine, Botvinnik, Tal, Karpov, Kasparov, Bobby Fischer and the others! Andre Schulz has selected one defining game from each championship, and he explains the moves of the Champions in a way that is easily accessible for amateur players. This is a book that no true chess lover wants to miss.