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Botvinnik
[ bot-vee-nik, -vin-ik; Russian buht-vyee-nyik ]
noun
- Mi路kha路il (Moi路se路e路vich) [mi-kah-, eel, moi-, sey, -y, uh, -vich, myi-, kh, uh-, yeel, mahy-, sye, -yi-vyich], 1911鈥1998, Russian chess master.
Botvinnik
/ 藞产蓲迟惫瑟苍瑟办 /
noun
- BotvinnikMikhail Moiseivich19111995MRussianSPORT AND GAMES: chess player Mikhail Moiseivich (mixa藞il m蓹i藞sjej瑟vit蕛). 1911鈥95, Soviet chess player; world champion (1948鈥57, 1958鈥60, 1961鈥63)
Example Sentences
He won or shared 12 Yugoslavian national titles, played in 15 Olympiads, won a slew of major tournaments, and defeated a string of world champions over the board, including Max Euwe, Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, Mikhail Tal, Tigran Petrosian and Bobby Fischer.
Mikhail Botvinnik, former world champion, studied computers in the 鈥50s and 鈥60s, and even back then saw the importance of the machines.
He drew against the ex-world champion Mikhail Botvinnik during the annual tournament held over Christmas and New Year鈥檚 in Hastings, England, in 1966-67, and against Mikhail Tal, another ex-champion, during the 1973-74 Hastings competition.
Her Round 5 win over WFM Sophie Morris-Suzuki smoothly transformed the positional advantage out of a Botvinnik English into a killer attack.
When Mikhail Botvinnik, who became World Chess Champion, arrived at the Bolshoi Opera House, he was given a standing ovation.
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