Botwinnik: Botvinnik versus Smyslov and Petrosian (paperback)Four World Chess Championship Matches: 1954, 1957, 1958 and 1963 The writings of Mikhail Moiseevich Botvinnik (1911 1995) are legendary. And Botvinniks legacy is deeply imprinted in the DNA of every grandmaster today, says Andy Soltis in his foreword tot this book. The Patriarch took professionalism in chess to a new level and was the first to emphasize preparation: what a player does before a game plays an enormous, if not decisive, role in what