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
Mikhail BotvinnikIt must be clearly understood that Soviet players do not seek simple systems in the opening, but try to formulate opening systems in which everything is complicated, distinctive, or new.
Mikhail BotvinnikIt is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.
Mikhail Botvinnik