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| Aug-05-13 | | Estoc: <HeHateMe> Milan Vidmar excelled in electrical engineering. |
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Aug-17-13
 | | brankat: R.I.P. Mikhail Botvinnik. |
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Aug-17-13
 | | parisattack: Yes, R.I.P Mikhail Moisevich.
His games and annotations make excellent study; perhaps the best for the club player. |
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Sep-29-13
 | | offramp: Incredible Botvinnik lookalike:
Actor James Woods:
www.starpulse.com/Actors/Woods,_James/gallery/AE-
S-074474/ |
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Oct-14-13
 | | visayanbraindoctor: Game Collection: Botvinnik vs the World Champions Decisive Games |
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| Oct-16-13 | | Penguincw:  Quote of the Day
< "Chess is the art of analysis." > -Botvinnik
Nowadays, computers have also been "artistic". |
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Oct-16-13
| | parisattack: Botvinnik was not a chess genius - like Morphy, Capablanca, Fischer or Kasparov. He was talented, but more he was incredibly focused - which shows in his style of play (Identify a strategic target early in the game and drill) - and perhaps the hardest working, most serious 'student' the game has seen. We cannot all be GMs, but I think the Botvinnik Model is one every player may use to improve. |
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| Oct-17-13 | | Penguincw: Quote of the Day
< "Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic." > - Botvinnik
He's been mentioning "chess is the art..." a lot now. |
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| Dec-30-13 | | Penguincw: Quote of the Day
< "Everything is in a state of flux, and this includes the world of chess." >
-Botvinnik |
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Feb-03-14
 | | perfidious: More genius-level insight from a foremost exponent of Botvinnik bashing: Mikhail Botvinnik <ughaibu....I have been a player who was described as good yet after first playing through a Botvinnik "masterpiece" I applied for a national health grant in order to have the incipient memories excised. Botvinnik has well and away the ugliest style of any world champion, even Steinitz has a pipe-and-slippers charm by comparison. If one need suffer the agonies of dredging through his turgid practicality in search of chess strength I suggest any alternative ambition would be preferable.> Maybe the dear boy should break out his pipe and slippers whilst travelling in time to the 1850s, when real men played King's Gambits instead of stodgy openings such as the French and Sicilian, which were less highly regarded then. |
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Feb-03-14
 | | Travis Bickle: <perfidious> Dumbass. |
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Feb-03-14
| | perfidious: <Trav-baby> Y'all talkin' 'bout your boy <ugh-haibu>? |
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| Feb-21-14 | | paavoh: @parisattack: <It is also the reason I think Botvinnik is one of the best players to learn from since most of us here down in the chessic trenches are neither brilliant nor fantastic by nature. Botvinnik picked his targets and plan very early in the game and just stuck it out to the end.> +1. A very good advice IMO. |
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Feb-27-14
 | | Karpova: Mikhail Botvinnik: <Thus we see that there are two factors hindering a championship match between the holder of the title and his strongest rival: 1. the rival cannot always obtain the funds for such a match, and 2. the champion as a rule is not interested in playing a match with his strongest opponent.> Source: 'CHESS', March 1947, pages 168-169
Retrieved from Edward Winter's <Interregnum>, 2003-2004, http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... |
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Apr-10-14
 | | zanzibar: Polugaevsky's book "Grandmaster Preparation"
http://www.amazon.com/Grandmaster-P... has a short introduction "On How This Book Found its Author" in which I learned two facts I didn't know: 1) Geller was a former basketball player.
2) Botvinnik apparently felt that all GM's had a duty to write a book on chess. <... even so Botvinnik's retort quite overwhelmed me [Polugaevsky]:"Why don't you admit it -- you're a lazy bones! You should be ashamed of yourself! It's the duty of every grandmaster to write books," declared Mikhail Moiseevich, very severely bringing the conversation to a close."
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I wonder, given the number of GM's out there today, if Mikhail Moiseevich would still feel the same way? Also, note the use of Botvinnik's father's name, Moise (Moses). Handy to know if one ever needed to telephone him in Moscow: http://en.chessbase.com/post/hou-yi... (What's in a name?) |
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Apr-22-14
| | offramp: 'Avin' a wee-wee made my doo-dah sting. So I had to pop down the old Mikhail for a checkup! |
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| Apr-23-14 | | ughaibu: Good one! |
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| Apr-30-14 | | 1d410: The busting out of bizarre but effective lines at the young players' Gashimov memorial tournament reminds me of how Botvinnik excelled at whipping out a variety of interesting openings rather than relying on the depth of knowledge of a few pets. Hopefully (for me) we are witnessing a return of those days. They were more exciting and what has always inspired me in chess. |
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May-28-14
| | offramp: OMG!! I've just been on youtube watching a totally excellent old detective serial called <The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo>. It's a totally superb show. Brilliantly done.
But I VERY nearly crashed my autogyro when the opening credits came up. One of them almost punched me in the face; <Peaches....Amy Botwinick.> It was at that moment that the old gyrocopter titled into an irreversible spin! |
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| May-28-14 | | Petrosianic: I vaguely remember the show, but I thought of it as a TV knockoff of Smokey and the Bandit. I think it was a Glen A. Larsony production with Claude Akins and a lot of country fried humor. I seem to remember hearing it referred to as "Sheriff Lobotomy". No wonder Botvinnik's daughter changed her name for it. |
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May-29-14
 | | HeMateMe: Sherriff Lobo rings a bell here, too. 1970s? |
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May-29-14
| | offramp: <HeMateMe: Sherriff Lobo rings a bell here, too. 1970s?> Wasn't it Sheriff Ljobo? |
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| May-29-14 | | diceman: <offramp: OMG!! I've just been on youtube watching a totally excellent old detective serial called> Charlie Chan? |
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| May-29-14 | | diceman: <offramp: <HeMateMe: Sherriff Lobo rings a bell here, too. 1970s?> Wasn't it Sheriff Ljobo?>
Sheriff Ljubojevic. |
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May-30-14
| | offramp: < diceman: <offramp: <HeMateMe: Sherriff Lobo rings a bell here, too. 1970s?> Wasn't it Sheriff Ljobo?>
Sheriff Ljubojevic.>
That's going down as my POST OF THE YEAR! |
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