The 6th world chess champion Mikhail Botvinnik was born on August 17, 1911. The first of the Soviet world champions, he kept the title for most of 1948 to 1963.
Botvinnik is called the "Patriarch of the Soviet Chess School" as he was a model and a teacher for generations of Soviet players. His ideas on chess training, including a strict regimen of life, extensive theoretical research, an important role of analyzing games made a basis for what we now call the "Soviet chess school".
"By strictly observing Botvinnik’s rule regarding the thorough analysis of one’s own games, with the years I have come to realize that this provides the foundation for the continuous development of chess mastery," - Garry Kasparov.
????: Botvinnik in circa 1980, via World Chess Hall of Fame
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