Mikhail Botvinnik's Influence on Chess

Botvinnik's example and teaching established the modern approach to preparing for competitive chess: regular but moderate physical exercise; analysing very thoroughly a relatively narrow repertoire of openings; annotating one's own games, those of past great players and those of competitors; publishing

Mikhail Botvinnik Quote: “I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both”

Petrosian vs. Botvinnik World Chess Championship 1963

Botvinnik on the Endgame book by Mikhail Botvinnik

Botvinnik the Patriarch!

Mikhail Botvinnik - Wikipedia

Mikhail Botvinnik - Wikipedia

Jose Raul Capablanca: Third World Chess by Linder, Isaak

Chess Pieces of the 1933 Botvinnik-Flohr Match: An Ongoing Enigma – Soviet and Late Tsarist Chess Sets

Botvinnik and the Pirc/Modern