Botvinnik:

Move by Move

Cyrus Lakdawala

• Publisher: Popular Chess
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781781941034

Mikhail Botvinnik was a three-time World Chess Champion and is widely regarded as one of the World's greatest ever players. Botvinnik possessed a universal, all-round style with an emphasis on logic and strategy. He loved to attack but, in contrast to – for example – Mikhail Tal, his attacks did not appear out of nowhere. They were the result of a systematic build up and developed naturally from earlier strategic gains. Botvinnik's games include numerous instructive masterpieces and a methodical analysis of his games is essential for any aspiring chess player. In this book, former American Open Champion Cyrus Lakdawala invites you to join him in a study of his favourite Botvinnik games. Lakdawala examines Botvinnik's renowned skills in the key areas of attack and defence, initiative, exploiting imbalances, accumulating advantages and endgame play. He demonstrates clearly how we can all improve by learning from Botvinnik's play.Move by Move provides an ideal platform to study chess. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the Move by Move format greatly encourages the learning and practising of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of knowledge. Carefully selected questions and answers are designed to keep you actively involved and allow you to monitor your progress as you learn. This is an excellent way to improve your chess skills and knowledge.Learn from the games of a chess legendImportant ideas absorbed by continued practice/li> Utilizes an ideal approach to chess study

Table of contents

• About the Author
• Bibliography
• Introduction
• 1 Botvinnik on the Attack
• 2 Botvinnik on Defence
• 3 Riding the Dynamic Element
• 4 Botvinnik on Exploiting Imbalances
• 5 Botvinnik on Accumulating Advantages
• 6 Botvinnik on Endings
• Index of Opponents
• Alekhine.A-Botvinnik.M, Nottingham 1936
• Averbakh.Y-Botvinnik.M, Training match, Moscow 1956
• Benko.P-Botvinnik.M, Monte Carlo 1968
• Bondarevsky.I-Botvinnik.M, USSR Absolute Championship, Leningrad/Moscow 1941
• Botvinnik.M-Alatortsev.V, Leningrad 1934
• Botvinnik.M-Alekhine.A, AVRO Tournament, The Netherlands 1938
• Botvinnik.M-Capablanca.J, AVRO Tournament, The Netherlands 1938
• Botvinnik.M-Euwe.M, World Championship Tournament, The Hague/Moscow 1948
• Botvinnik.M-Fischer.R, Varna Olympiad 1962
• Botvinnik.M-Flohr.S, Moscow 1936
• Botvinnik.M-Keres.P, USSR Championship, Moscow 1952
• Botvinnik.M-Keres.P, World Championship Tournament, The Hague/Moscow 1948
• Botvinnik.M-Larsen.B, Palma de Mallorca 1967
• Botvinnik.M-Levenfish.G, USSR Championship, Moscow 1940
• Botvinnik.M-Petrosian.T, World Championship (14th matchgame), Moscow 1963
• Botvinnik.M-Portisch.L, Monte Carlo 1968
• Botvinnik.M-Reshevsky.S, AVRO Tournament, The Netherlands 1938
• Botvinnik.M-Smyslov.V, World Championship (2nd matchgame), Moscow 1958
• Botvinnik.M-Smyslov.V, World Championship (6th matchgame), Moscow 1958
• Botvinnik.M-Szilagyi.G, IBM Tournament, Amsterdam 1966
• Botvinnik.M-Tal.M, World Championship (11th matchgame), Moscow 1961
• Botvinnik.M-Tal.M, World Championship (15th matchgame), Moscow 1961
• Botvinnik.M-Tal.M, World Championship (1st matchgame), Moscow 1961
• Botvinnik.M-Tal.M, World Championship (3rd matchgame), Moscow 1961
• Botvinnik.M-Tal.M, World Championship (7th matchgame), Moscow 1961
• Botvinnik.M-Tartakower.S, Nottingham 1936
• Botvinnik.M-Vidmar.M, Nottingham 1936
• Botvinnik.M-Yudovich.M, USSR Championship, Leningrad 1933
• Bronstein.D-Botvinnik.M, World Championship (18th matchgame), Moscow 1951
• Capablanca.J-Botvinnik.M, Leningrad (simul) 1925
• Denker.A-Botvinnik.M, USA vs. USSR radio match 1945
• Keres.P-Botvinnik.M, Chigorin Memorial, Moscow 1947
• Keres.P-Botvinnik.M, USSR Absolute Championship, Leningrad/Moscow 1941