DAVIS CENTER
(RUSSIAN RESEARCH CENTER)
AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
PRESENTS A RETROSPECTIVE
ON GM MIKHAIL M. BOTVINNIK, Ph.D.
FORMER WORLD CHESS CHAMPION
ON GM MIKHAIL M. BOTVINNIK, Ph.D.
FORMER WORLD CHESS CHAMPION
THE TOPIC
THE PRESENTERS
Left to Right: GM Emil Sutovsky (Israel), Dr. Maxim Shrayer,
Professor, Boston College, and IM John Donaldson . . .
Professor, Boston College, and IM John Donaldson . . .
the audience: (mostly BCC people)
Harvard University Campus 1730 Cambridge Street S010
BCC people NM Professor Tim Sage, Ed Astrachan, Natasha
Christiansen, Alex Slive, also Bob Huntington chess journalist
and lawyer, NM Bryan Hu, Harvard Fellow, Misha Kreisel
and Steve Stepak as well as three other attendees,
one Israeli and 2 Americans, not identified.
Topics discussed included Botvinnik's attaining and
reclaiming of the World Chess Championship,
his emphasis on "home" chess preparation and
the all important activity of reviewing one's
tournament chess games critically in extensive
analysis, preferably shared in published or unpublished
form, for critical evaluation.
It was also highlighted that Botvinnik began a
chess mentoring program in a former palace
of Czar Alexander III, which included the
likes of Kasparov, Karpov, Shirov, just to name
a few. M.B also made serious inroads into the
development of computer chess which
no doubt inspired future researchers to
pursue this worthy goal [culmination in
the total dominance of human chess
by Google's Alphazero!]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaZero
Not only was Botvinnik a world chess champion, but
also a PhD in engineering [power engineering]
which served him well during World War II
fighting against the Nazis.
Born in 1911, Botvinnik died in 1995 having
lived a full inspiring life.
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