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A knight ending is really a pawn ending.

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Knights

Pawns

Above all else, before playing in competitions a player must have regard to his health, for if he is suffering from ill-health he cannot hope for success. In this connection the best of all tonics is 15 to 20 days in the fresh air, in the country.

Air

Country

Player

Along with my retirement from chess analytical work seems to have gone too.

Analysis

Gone

Retirement

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

Chess

Defence

Kings

Capablanca’s phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible.

Moving

Variation

Years

Capablanca’s play produced and still produces an irresistable artistic effect. In his games a tendency towards simplicity predominated, and in this simplicity there was a unique beauty of genuine depth.

Games

Play

Unique

Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned.

Chess

Taught

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

Chess

Culture

Decline

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

Chess

Numbers

Violin

Chess is the art of analysis.

Analysis

Art

Chess

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Analysis

Art

Believe

Bishops

Blitz

Boards

Book

Boys

Calm

Chess

Class

Country

Creative

Culture

Decline

Defence

Effort

Engineering

Followers

Gains

Games

Gone

Home

Horizon

Ideas

Ifs

Impossible

Independent

Issues

Kids

Kings

Knights

Logic

Mastery

Memorization

Middle

Mind

Movement

Moving

Numbers

Opponents

Opposites

Pawns

Peculiar

People

Pieces

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Quotes by Mikhail Botvinnik

Mikhail Botvinnik

A knight ending is really a pawn ending.

Above all else, before playing in competitions a player must have regard to his health, for if he is suffering from ill-health he cannot hope for success. In this connection the best of all tonics is 15 to 20 days in the fresh air, in the country.

Along with my retirement from chess analytical work seems to have gone too.

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

Capablanca’s phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible.

Capablanca’s play produced and still produces an irresistable artistic effect. In his games a tendency towards simplicity predominated, and in this simplicity there was a unique beauty of genuine depth.

Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned.

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

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

Chess is the art of analysis.

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