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Botvinnik’s interest in Computer Chess started in the 50s, favouring chess algorithms based on [[Claude Shannon|Shannon's]] selective [[Type B Strategy|type B strategy]], as discussed along with [[Max Euwe]] 1958 in Dutch Television <ref>[http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=81282 Wageningen Caltex (1958)] from [http://www.chessgames.com/index.html chessgames.com]</ref>. Botvinnik served as a consultant to Soviet computer chess developers who developed the [[ITEP Chess Program]] at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow Moscow's] [[Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics]] (ITEP) which won a [[Stanford-ITEP Match|correspondence chess match]] against the [[Kotok-McCarthy-Program]] led by [[John McCarthy]] in 1967. Later he advised the team that created the chess program [[Kaissa]] at Moscow’s [[Institute of Control Sciences]] <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbdb9817 International Grandmaster and World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik in Moscow], 1980, Gift of [[Monroe Newborn]], "[[Mikhail Botvinnik|Botvinnik]] served as a consultant to Soviet computer chess developers who developed an early program at [[Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics|ITEP]] which won a [[Stanford-ITEP Match|correspondence chess match]] against a [[Stanford University]] [[Kotok-McCarthy-Program|chess program]] led by [[John McCarthy]] in 1967. Later he advised the team that created the chess program [[Kaissa]] at [[Institute of Control Sciences|Moscow’s Institute for Control Science]]"</ref> <ref>[http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~brudno/ Michael Brudno] ('''2000'''). ''Competitions, Controversies, and Computer Chess'', [http://www.cs.toronto.edu/%7Ebrudno/essays/cchess.pdf pdf]</ref> <ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess.computer/browse_frm/thread/e9f5b809a7ac0952 Kaissa & Botvinik] by [[Shay Bushinsky]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], October 16, 1997</ref> .
 
Botvinnik’s interest in Computer Chess started in the 50s, favouring chess algorithms based on [[Claude Shannon|Shannon's]] selective [[Type B Strategy|type B strategy]], as discussed along with [[Max Euwe]] 1958 in Dutch Television <ref>[http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=81282 Wageningen Caltex (1958)] from [http://www.chessgames.com/index.html chessgames.com]</ref>. Botvinnik served as a consultant to Soviet computer chess developers who developed the [[ITEP Chess Program]] at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow Moscow's] [[Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics]] (ITEP) which won a [[Stanford-ITEP Match|correspondence chess match]] against the [[Kotok-McCarthy-Program]] led by [[John McCarthy]] in 1967. Later he advised the team that created the chess program [[Kaissa]] at Moscow’s [[Institute of Control Sciences]] <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbdb9817 International Grandmaster and World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik in Moscow], 1980, Gift of [[Monroe Newborn]], "[[Mikhail Botvinnik|Botvinnik]] served as a consultant to Soviet computer chess developers who developed an early program at [[Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics|ITEP]] which won a [[Stanford-ITEP Match|correspondence chess match]] against a [[Stanford University]] [[Kotok-McCarthy-Program|chess program]] led by [[John McCarthy]] in 1967. Later he advised the team that created the chess program [[Kaissa]] at [[Institute of Control Sciences|Moscow’s Institute for Control Science]]"</ref> <ref>[http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~brudno/ Michael Brudno] ('''2000'''). ''Competitions, Controversies, and Computer Chess'', [http://www.cs.toronto.edu/%7Ebrudno/essays/cchess.pdf pdf]</ref> <ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess.computer/browse_frm/thread/e9f5b809a7ac0952 Kaissa & Botvinik] by [[Shay Bushinsky]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], October 16, 1997</ref> .
  
However, Botvinnik had his own ideas to model a Chess Master's Mind. After publishing and discussing his early ideas on [[Attack and Defend Maps|attack maps]] and [[Trajectory|trajectories]] at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_Centres Moscow Central Chess Club] <ref>[http://en.chessbase.com/home/TabId/211/PostId/4007513  The last day of the “Botvinnik Memorial”] by [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Denissowna_Burtassowa Anna Burtasova], [[ChessBase|ChessBase News]], September 07, 2011</ref> in 1966, with the skeptical [[Georgy Adelson-Velsky]] and others attending, he found [[Vladimir Butenko]] as supporter and collaborator. Butenko first implemented the [[Vector Attacks|15x15 vector attacks]] board representation on a [[M-20]] computer, [[Distance#15x15|determining trajectories]]. After Botvinnik introduced the concept of Zones in 1970, Butenko refused further cooperation and began to write his own [[Butenko's program|program]] <ref>[http://atimopheyev.narod.ru/Frame/index.html Лингвистическая Геометрия] Бориса Штильмана, [http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=de&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http://atimopheyev.narod.ru/Frame/index.html&usg=ALkJrhjGqyvJey-MTGqcGxzMU53Od0Y7VQ Linguistic Geometry] [[Boris Stilman]] by [[Alexander Timofeev]] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Translate Google Translate])
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However, Botvinnik had his own ideas to model a Chess Master's Mind. After publishing and discussing his early ideas on [[Attack and Defend Maps|attack maps]] and [[Trajectory|trajectories]] at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_Centres Moscow Central Chess Club] <ref>[http://en.chessbase.com/home/TabId/211/PostId/4007513  The last day of the “Botvinnik Memorial”] by [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Denissowna_Burtassowa Anna Burtasova], [[ChessBase|ChessBase News]], September 07, 2011</ref> in 1966, with the skeptical [[Georgy Adelson-Velsky]] and others attending, he found [[Vladimir Butenko]] as supporter and collaborator. Butenko first implemented the [[Vector Attacks|15x15 vector attacks]] board representation on a [[M-20]] computer, [[Distance#15x15|determining trajectories]]. After Botvinnik introduced the concept of Zones in 1970, Butenko refused further cooperation and began to write his own program, dubbed [[Eureka]] <ref>[http://atimopheyev.narod.ru/Frame/index.html Лингвистическая Геометрия] Бориса Штильмана, [http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=de&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http://atimopheyev.narod.ru/Frame/index.html&usg=ALkJrhjGqyvJey-MTGqcGxzMU53Od0Y7VQ Linguistic Geometry] [[Boris Stilman]] by [[Alexander Timofeev]] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Translate Google Translate])
 
[http://atimopheyev.narod.ru/AfterPIONEER/index.html По стопам ПИОНЕРа], [http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=de&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http://atimopheyev.narod.ru/AfterPIONEER/index.html&usg=ALkJrhh0I8eGI93tpR27m-YIWUnG3l5SjA In the footsteps of Pioneer]</ref>.  
 
[http://atimopheyev.narod.ru/AfterPIONEER/index.html По стопам ПИОНЕРа], [http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=de&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http://atimopheyev.narod.ru/AfterPIONEER/index.html&usg=ALkJrhh0I8eGI93tpR27m-YIWUnG3l5SjA In the footsteps of Pioneer]</ref>.  
  
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==Computer Chess==  
 
==Computer Chess==  
 
<ref>[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/docs/References.pdf ICGA Reference Database] (pdf)</ref>
 
<ref>[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/docs/References.pdf ICGA Reference Database] (pdf)</ref>
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===1968 ...===
 
* [[Mikhail Botvinnik]] ('''1968'''). ''Algoritm igry v shakhmaty''. (The algorithm of chess)
 
* [[Mikhail Botvinnik]] ('''1968'''). ''Algoritm igry v shakhmaty''. (The algorithm of chess)
* [[Mikhail Botvinnik]] ('''1970'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4684-6245-6 Computers, Chess and Long-Range Planning]''. [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer], [http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1000006.Computers_Chess_and_Long_Range_Planning_ reviews from goodreads] <ref>[[Paul Rushton]], [[Tony Marsland]] ('''1973'''). ''Current Chess Programs: A Summary of their Potential and Limitations''. INFOR Journal of the Canadian Information Processing Society Vol. 11, No. 1, [http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~tony/OldPapers/Rushton-Marsland-Feb73.pdf pdf]</ref> <ref>[http://www.johnljerz.com/superduper/tlxdownloadsiteMAIN/id128.html Computers, Chess and Long-range Planning by Botvinnik] by [[John L. Jerz]]</ref>
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===1970 ...===
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* [[Mikhail Botvinnik]] ('''1970'''). ''[https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4684-6245-6 Computers, Chess and Long-Range Planning]''. [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer], [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1000006.Computers_Chess_and_Long_Range_Planning from goodreads] <ref>[[Paul Rushton]], [[Tony Marsland]] ('''1973'''). ''Current Chess Programs: A Summary of their Potential and Limitations''. INFOR Journal of the Canadian Information Processing Society Vol. 11, No. 1, [http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~tony/OldPapers/Rushton-Marsland-Feb73.pdf pdf]</ref> <ref>[http://www.johnljerz.com/superduper/tlxdownloadsiteMAIN/id128.html Computers, Chess and Long-range Planning by Botvinnik] by [[John L. Jerz]]</ref>
 
* [[Mikhail Botvinnik]] ('''1975'''). ''O Kiberneticheskoi Celi Igri''. (On the Cybernetic Goal of Games), Soviet Radio, Moscow
 
* [[Mikhail Botvinnik]] ('''1975'''). ''O Kiberneticheskoi Celi Igri''. (On the Cybernetic Goal of Games), Soviet Radio, Moscow
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* [[Mikhail Botvinnik]], [[Boris Stilman]], [[Alexander Yudin]] ('''1978'''). ''Iskusstvennyǐ šahmatnyǐ Vestnik''. (An Artificial chess master) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_of_the_Russian_Academy_of_Sciences:_Physics Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the USSSR], 1978, No. 4
 
* [[Mikhail Botvinnik]] ('''1979'''). ''O Reshenii Netochnih Prebornih Zadach''. (On Solving Inexact Search Problems), Soviet Radio, Moscow
 
* [[Mikhail Botvinnik]] ('''1979'''). ''O Reshenii Netochnih Prebornih Zadach''. (On Solving Inexact Search Problems), Soviet Radio, Moscow
* [[Mikhail Botvinnik]], [[Boris Stilman]], [[Alexander Yudin]], [[Alexander Reznitskiy]], [[Michael Tsfasman]] ('''1980'''). ''Thinking of Man and Computer'', Proc. of the Second International Meeting on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1-9, Repino, Leningrad, Russia.
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===1980 ...===
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* [[Mikhail Botvinnik]], [[Boris Stilman]], [[Alexander Yudin]], [[Alexander Reznitskiy]], [[Michael Tsfasman]] ('''1980'''). ''Thinking of Man and Computer''. Proc. of the Second International Meeting on Artificial Intelligence, Repino, Leningrad, Russia.
 
* [[Mikhail Botvinnik]] ('''1982'''). ''Decision Making and Computers.'' [[Advances in Computer Chess 3]]
 
* [[Mikhail Botvinnik]] ('''1982'''). ''Decision Making and Computers.'' [[Advances in Computer Chess 3]]
* [[Mikhail Botvinnik]] ('''1982'''). ''Meine neuen Ideen zur Schachprogrammierung''. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. [http://www.amazon.de/Meine-neuen-Schachprogrammierung-Informationstechnik-Datenverarbeitung/dp/3540110941 amazon.de] (German)
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* [[Mikhail Botvinnik]] ('''1982'''). ''Meine neuen Ideen zur Schachprogrammierung''. Springer-Verlag, Berlin (German)
* [[Mikhail Botvinnik]] ('''1984'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4612-5204-7 Computers in Chess: Solving Inexact Search Problems]''. [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer]
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* [[Mikhail Botvinnik]] ('''1984'''). ''[https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4612-5204-7 Computers in Chess: Solving Inexact Search Problems]''. [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer]
 
* [[Mikhail Botvinnik]] ('''1983'''). ''The Game of Chess: Its past, present and future''. [[ICGA Journal#6_3|ICCA Journal, Vol. 6, No. 3]]
 
* [[Mikhail Botvinnik]] ('''1983'''). ''The Game of Chess: Its past, present and future''. [[ICGA Journal#6_3|ICCA Journal, Vol. 6, No. 3]]
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===1990 ...===
 
* [[Mikhail Botvinnik]] ('''1993'''). ''Three Positions''. [[ICGA Journal#16_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 2]] » [[Réti Endgame Study]] <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=101063 "The Tale of a Small Tree" by M.M.Botvinnik [fragment]] by [[José Antônio Fabiano Mendes]], [[CCC]], March 09, 2000</ref>
 
* [[Mikhail Botvinnik]] ('''1993'''). ''Three Positions''. [[ICGA Journal#16_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 2]] » [[Réti Endgame Study]] <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=101063 "The Tale of a Small Tree" by M.M.Botvinnik [fragment]] by [[José Antônio Fabiano Mendes]], [[CCC]], March 09, 2000</ref>
* [[Mikhail Botvinnik]], [[Evgeniĭ Dmitrievich Cherevik]], [[Vasily Vladimirov]], [[Vitaly Vygodsky]] ('''1994'''). ''[https://getinfo.de/app/Solving-Shannon-s-Problem-Ways-and-Means/id/BLCP%3ACN011979464 Solving Shannon's Problem: Ways and Means]''. [[Advances in Computer Chess 7]]
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* [[Mikhail Botvinnik]], [[Evgeniĭ Dmitrievich Cherevik]], [[Vasily Vladimirov]], [[Vitaly Vygodsky]] ('''1994'''). ''Solving Shannon's Problem: Ways and Means''. [[Advances in Computer Chess 7]]
 
* [[Marty Hirsch]] ('''1995'''). ''Botwinnik und die Schachprogrammierung''. [[Computerschach und Spiele]], June-July 1995 (German)
 
* [[Marty Hirsch]] ('''1995'''). ''Botwinnik und die Schachprogrammierung''. [[Computerschach und Spiele]], June-July 1995 (German)
  
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* [http://history.ucsc.edu/graduate/alumni/index.html Michael A. Hudson] ('''2013'''). ''Storming Fortresses: A Political History of Chess in the Soviet Union, 1917-1948''. Ph.D. thesis, [[University of California, Santa Cruz]], [http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0s71f0cw#page-1 eScholarship], Chapter Ten - Botvinnik: The New Soviet (Chess)Man
 
* [http://history.ucsc.edu/graduate/alumni/index.html Michael A. Hudson] ('''2013'''). ''Storming Fortresses: A Political History of Chess in the Soviet Union, 1917-1948''. Ph.D. thesis, [[University of California, Santa Cruz]], [http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0s71f0cw#page-1 eScholarship], Chapter Ten - Botvinnik: The New Soviet (Chess)Man
  
=Forum Posts=  
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==1993 ...==  
 
* [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess/browse_frm/thread/c6c81bbb1a2b399f# Kasparov missed Beautiful win; Botvinnik's Program muffs analysis] by [[Hans Berliner]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rec.games.chess]], July 9, 1993
 
* [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess/browse_frm/thread/c6c81bbb1a2b399f# Kasparov missed Beautiful win; Botvinnik's Program muffs analysis] by [[Hans Berliner]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rec.games.chess]], July 9, 1993
 
* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess.computer/ZWQ5ZwvXx_s/EgXPrz6jZFYJ Botvinnik article] by [[Jonathan Schaeffer]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], October 23, 1996
 
* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess.computer/ZWQ5ZwvXx_s/EgXPrz6jZFYJ Botvinnik article] by [[Jonathan Schaeffer]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], October 23, 1996
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* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess.computer/PfUC5qeA1wg/DM9diAkN0WMJ Botvinniks Chess Algorithm ??] by [[Bruce Moreland]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], October 05, 1997
 
* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess.computer/PfUC5qeA1wg/DM9diAkN0WMJ Botvinniks Chess Algorithm ??] by [[Bruce Moreland]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], October 05, 1997
 
* [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess.computer/browse_frm/thread/e9f5b809a7ac0952 Kaissa & Botvinik] by [[Shay Bushinsky]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], October 16, 1997
 
* [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess.computer/browse_frm/thread/e9f5b809a7ac0952 Kaissa & Botvinik] by [[Shay Bushinsky]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], October 16, 1997
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* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=45952 Botwinnik] by [[Jan Willem de Kort]], [[CCC]], March 17, 1999
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==2000 ...==
 
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=98380 What is Botvinnik's legacy to computer chess?] by Drazen Marovic, [[CCC]], February 20, 2000
 
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=98380 What is Botvinnik's legacy to computer chess?] by Drazen Marovic, [[CCC]], February 20, 2000
 
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=101063 "The Tale of a Small Tree" by M.M.Botvinnik [fragment]] by [[José Antônio Fabiano Mendes]], [[CCC]], March 09, 2000 » [[Réti Endgame Study]]
 
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=101063 "The Tale of a Small Tree" by M.M.Botvinnik [fragment]] by [[José Antônio Fabiano Mendes]], [[CCC]], March 09, 2000 » [[Réti Endgame Study]]
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* [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/search.php?more=&submitted=1&keywords=Botvinnik&x=42&y=17&all=all&item_document=item_document&item_moving_image=item_moving_image&item_artifact=item_artifact&item_still_image=item_still_image&item_oral_history=item_oral_history&item_software=item_software Mikhail Botvinnik] from [[The Computer History Museum]]
 
* [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/search.php?more=&submitted=1&keywords=Botvinnik&x=42&y=17&all=all&item_document=item_document&item_moving_image=item_moving_image&item_artifact=item_artifact&item_still_image=item_still_image&item_oral_history=item_oral_history&item_software=item_software Mikhail Botvinnik] from [[The Computer History Museum]]
 
* [http://www.computerwoche.de/heftarchiv/1978/15/1195495/ Über Stand und Entwicklung seines Computer-Schachprogramms "Pionier" referierte Prof. Michael Botwinnik (67), UdSSR, auf einer einwöchigen Vortragsreise durch die Bundesrepublik], April 04, 1978, [[Computerworld#Woche|Computerwoche]] 15/1978 (German)
 
* [http://www.computerwoche.de/heftarchiv/1978/15/1195495/ Über Stand und Entwicklung seines Computer-Schachprogramms "Pionier" referierte Prof. Michael Botwinnik (67), UdSSR, auf einer einwöchigen Vortragsreise durch die Bundesrepublik], April 04, 1978, [[Computerworld#Woche|Computerwoche]] 15/1978 (German)
* [http://en.chessbase.com/post/the-wrong-bishop-part-two The wrong bishop – part two] by [[Frederic Friedel]], [[ChessBase|ChessBase News]], May 22, 2016 » [[Cray Blitz]], [[WCCC 1983]], [[Wrong color Bishop and rook pawn]]
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* [http://en.chessbase.com/post/the-wrong-bishop-part-two The wrong bishop – part two] by [[Frederic Friedel]], [[ChessBase|ChessBase News]], May 22, 2016 » [[Cray Blitz]], [[WCCC 1983]], [[Wrong Color Bishop and Rook Pawn]]
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* [https://en.chessbase.com/post/the-adventure-of-chess-programming-part-2 The Adventure of Chess Programming (Part 2)] by [[Frederic Friedel]], [[ChessBase|ChessBase News]], February 12, 2019
 
* Михаил Ботвинник. Осень шахматиста (1990), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Videos
 
* Михаил Ботвинник. Осень шахматиста (1990), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Videos
 
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Mikhail Botvinnik [1]

Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik, (Михаил Ботвинник , August 17, 1911 – May 5, 1995)
was a Russian chess Grandmaster, three-time World Chess Champion from 1948 to 1957, 1958 to 1960, and 1961 to 1963, and a Doctor of Technical Sciences.

Computer Chess

Botvinnik’s interest in Computer Chess started in the 50s, favouring chess algorithms based on Shannon's selective type B strategy, as discussed along with Max Euwe 1958 in Dutch Television [2]. Botvinnik served as a consultant to Soviet computer chess developers who developed the ITEP Chess Program at Moscow's Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP) which won a correspondence chess match against the Kotok-McCarthy-Program led by John McCarthy in 1967. Later he advised the team that created the chess program Kaissa at Moscow’s Institute of Control Sciences [3] [4] [5] .

However, Botvinnik had his own ideas to model a Chess Master's Mind. After publishing and discussing his early ideas on attack maps and trajectories at Moscow Central Chess Club [6] in 1966, with the skeptical Georgy Adelson-Velsky and others attending, he found Vladimir Butenko as supporter and collaborator. Butenko first implemented the 15x15 vector attacks board representation on a M-20 computer, determining trajectories. After Botvinnik introduced the concept of Zones in 1970, Butenko refused further cooperation and began to write his own program, dubbed Eureka [7].

Pioneer

In the 70s and 80s, leading a team around Boris Stilman, Alexander Yudin, Alexander Reznitskiy, Michael Tsfasman and Mikhail Chudakov, Botvinnik worked on his own project Pioneer. The research and work on Pioneer took place at the State Committee for Science and Technology, Moscow, USSR, the National Research Institute for Electrical Engineering, Moscow, USSR and the USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR. Short time visits with Stilman and Yudin took place in 1978 at University of Mannheim, Germany, and the University of Dortmund, Germany, as well at Control Data Corp., USA. Based on this research, Boris Stilman coined the term Linguistic Geometry [8], a new type of game theory. Botvinnik published Pioneer's abilities on selected positions, but it never played a public complete game of chess.

CC Sapiens

In the 90s, Botvinnik already in his 80s, he worked on the new project CC Sapiens, in collaboration with Vasily Vladimirov, Evgeniĭ Dmitrievich Cherevik and Vitaly Vygodsky [9]. For his publication Three Positions [10] , Botvinnik was criticized by Hans Berliner [11] [12] [13] [14] [15], and his old chess rival David Bronstein [16].

Photos

3-3.Botvinnik.McGill University Lecture.Montreal.1977.102645344.NEWBORN.lg.jpg

Botvinnik's Lecture at McGill University 1977 - any questions? Monty Newborn left [17]

Beal Thompson Newborn Botvinnik WCCC New York 1983.jpg

Don Beal, Ken Thompson, Monty Newborn, and Mikhail Botvinnik, WCCC 1983

3-1 and 3-3.Reshevsky Fine Botvinnik.WCCC 4.New York.1983.102645351.NEWBORN.jpg

Samuel Reshevsky, Reuben Fine and Mikhail Botvinnik, WCCC 1983

See also

Publications

Computer Chess

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1970 ...

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Misc

Forum Posts

1993 ...

Re: Botvinnik article by Peter Gillgasch, rgcc, October 23, 1996
Re: Botvinnik article by Marc-François Baudot, rgcc, November 07, 1996 » Advances in Computer Chess 7

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External Links

Энциклопедия шахмат - Ботвинник В.Линдер, И.Линдер, The Encyclopedia of Chess - Botvinnik B. Linder, J. Linder
По стопам ПИОНЕРа, In the footsteps of Pioneer

References

  1. Image at Schiphol, October 29, 1962, by Harry Pot / Anefo, Mikhail Botvinnik from Wikipedia
  2. Wageningen Caltex (1958) from chessgames.com
  3. International Grandmaster and World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik in Moscow, 1980, Gift of Monroe Newborn, "Botvinnik served as a consultant to Soviet computer chess developers who developed an early program at ITEP which won a correspondence chess match against a Stanford University chess program led by John McCarthy in 1967. Later he advised the team that created the chess program Kaissa at Moscow’s Institute for Control Science"
  4. Michael Brudno (2000). Competitions, Controversies, and Computer Chess, pdf
  5. Kaissa & Botvinik by Shay Bushinsky, rgcc, October 16, 1997
  6. The last day of the “Botvinnik Memorial” by Anna Burtasova, ChessBase News, September 07, 2011
  7. Лингвистическая Геометрия Бориса Штильмана, Linguistic Geometry Boris Stilman by Alexander Timofeev (Google Translate) По стопам ПИОНЕРа, In the footsteps of Pioneer
  8. The Home Page of Linguistic Geometry by Boris Stilman
  9. Mikhail Botvinnik, Evgeniĭ Dmitrievich Cherevik, Vasily Vladimirov, Vitaly Vygodsky (1994). Solving Shannon's Problem: Ways and Means. Advances in Computer Chess 7
  10. Mikhail Botvinnik (1993). Three Positions. ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 2
  11. Hans Berliner (1993). Playing Computer Chess in the Human Style. ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 3
  12. Kasparov missed Beautiful win; Botvinnik's Program muffs analysis by Hans Berliner, rec.games.chess, July 9, 1993
  13. Berliner paper about Botvinnik by Shane Hudson, rgc, September 10, 1994
  14. Botvinnik article by Jonathan Schaeffer, rgcc, October 23, 1996
  15. Hans Berliner against Mikhail Botvinnik by Alexander Timofeev
  16. David Bronstein (1993). Mimicking Human Oversight. ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 3
  17. Photos by Monroe Newborn from The Computer History Museum
  18. ICGA Reference Database (pdf)
  19. Paul Rushton, Tony Marsland (1973). Current Chess Programs: A Summary of their Potential and Limitations. INFOR Journal of the Canadian Information Processing Society Vol. 11, No. 1, pdf
  20. Computers, Chess and Long-range Planning by Botvinnik by John L. Jerz
  21. "The Tale of a Small Tree" by M.M.Botvinnik [fragment] by José Antônio Fabiano Mendes, CCC, March 09, 2000

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