What is that wall that is holding them back?” Anand was in part inspired by the chess school started nearly 60 years ago by Mikhail Botvinnik, the Soviet chess titan, who trained champions ...
Paul Keres, along with Soviet rival Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, Max Euwe and Samuel Reshevsky contested the title in a tournament split between The Hague in the Netherlands and Moscow.