Exeter Chess Club: Trawled from the 'Net

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From: jay@tweekco.ness.com (Jay Whitley)
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Subject: Re: Botvinnik dies
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nicolo@na47sun26.cern.ch (Nicolo de Groot) posted:
>In Moscow former world champion Michael Botvinnik has died at the
>age of 83.
 
As we remember Botvinnik, here are some Botvinnik-related
quotes to enjoy...Please post others of interest to rec.games.chess!
 
Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large
number of professional violinists.
-Botvinnik
 
Chess is the art of analysis.
-Botvinnik
 
Once man starts designing `electronic brains' analogous to
human chess players, the inadequacies of `chess thinking'
will be revealed, and the checking of the various methods
of programming will tell us how the live players really think.
-Botvinnik, 1961
 
The boy doesn't have a clue about chess, and there's no future
at all for him in this profession.
-Botvinnik said about a young 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov
 
Don't worry, kids. You'll find work. After all, my machine will
need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.
-Botvinnik said to Karpov and other chess students, c.1963,
 regarding his computer chess program which he claimed would
 eventually defeat the World Champion.
 
Of course, the essence of chess is not to be found in the opening
of the game. The basic ingredient of chess is that in a complex,
original situation, where no source of help is apparent, a player
must find the correct solution or move. Anyone who is able to do
this can feel confident at the board.
-Botvinnik
 
Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the
combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who
have the ability to organize their creative work.
-Botvinnik
 
Botvinnik is working hard at trying to make a computer play
chess as well as a human being, so let me teach human beings
to analyse with the accuracy of a machine.
-Kotov, 1970
 
Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then
chess too will decline.
-Botvinnik, 1978
 
Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of chess, always
relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call
chess a typical inexact problem similar to those which people
are always having to solve in everyday life.
-Kasparov, 1987
 
Botvinnik's ideas were highly original and led to many
stimulating publications on computer chess.  Unfortunately
Botvinnik's most active period as a researcher into computer
chess coincided with the era when access to computer time in
the Soviet Union was severely limited.  Had he been given
access to virtually unlimited amounts of time on powerful
computers, there is no telling how much he and his
programmers could have achieved.
-David Levy and Monty Newborn, 1991
 
Everything is in a state of flux, and this includes the
world of chess.
-Botvinnik
 

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