Mikhail Botvinnik Quotes about Chess

Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately

Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned.

If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.

Chess is the art of analysis.

If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly, the work is far more complex than that needed to gain the title of Master.

Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929.

It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.

Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory which is closely linked with plans for the middle game.

The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession

Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline

Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what Fischer had found with the greatest of ease at the board

Everything is in a state of flux, and this includes the world of Chess

A knight ending is really a pawn ending.

There is no better place for learning to work independently and to extend your horizon than in higher school.

Before Geller we did not understand the King's Indian Defence.

Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists