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Botvinnik’s Best Games The Sixth World Chess Champion Mikhail Botvinnik is widely regarded as one of the greatest chess players of all time, in the same league as Magnus Carlsen, Bobby

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Fischer, and Garry Kasparov. Botvinnik was born in 1911 and died in 1995. He is known as The Patriarch, or the father of the Soviet School of Chess. He was World Chess Champion from 1948

until 1963, with two short interruptions, and later mentored other world champions Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik.

Botvinnik’s Best Games

For this modern biography, the Russian grandmaster Alexander Khalifman has selected and annotated more than fifty of Botvinnik’s best games. Khalifman is an excellent guide with a deep

understanding of chess and a talent for explaining games in a clear and accessible manner.

The Sixth World Chess Champion

Botvinnik’s Best Games is part of a series by New In Chess that celebrates the greatest chess players of all time. Previous titles in the series include collections of games by Paul Morphy, Max

Euwe, Boris Spassky, and Ding Liren.

Alexander Khalifman

Alexander Khalifman (1966) is a Russian grandmaster who has won numerous tournaments, including the Russian Championship and the New York Open. He was FIDE World

Champion in 1999-2000 and has written more than a dozen widely acclaimed chess books.

A pioneer of systematic chess study

Today, a naive and pragmatic approach to chess literature prevails, with books like ‘How to Win in the Opening’ being especially popular. In fact, your playing strength does not

increase when you study opening reference books: to achieve real progress, you need to carefully study the works of the world’s best chess players. Everyone studies the games of

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modern top grandmasters, but the classics have also contributed a lot of valuable things to our game, and there is much to learn from them. One of the recognized authorities is the

Patriarch of Soviet chess, the sixth World Champion Mikhail Moiseevich Botvinnik.

 Botvinnik’s Best Games