100 years since the birth of Mikhail Botvinnik - 1st Soviet world champion

Soviet chess player, 6th in the history of chess and 1st Soviet world champion. Grandmaster of the USSR, international grandmaster and arbiter in chess composition; Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, 6-time champion of the USSR, absolute champion of the USSR. Moscow Champion. Six-time winner of the Chess Olympiad as part of the USSR team. Patriarch of the Soviet chess school. Chairman of the All-Union Chess Section and the Board of the Society of the USSR - the Netherlands