Mikhail Botvinnik
PersonSoviet chess player
Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster who held five world titles in three different reigns. The sixth World Chess Champion, he also worked as an electrical engineer and computer scientist and was a pioneer in computer chess, the last of which he was awarded an honorary mathematics degree for.
| Born | 1911-08-17 |
| Died | 1995-05-05 |
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