Mikhail Botvinnik
Russian-Soviet chess grandmaster
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... Wikipedia
Born: August 17, 1911, Repino, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died: May 5, 1995 (age 83 years), Moscow, Russia
Spouse: Gayane Botvinnik (m. 1935)
Children: Olga Botvinnik
Parents: Moisei Lvovich Botvinnik and Seraphim Samoilovna Rabinovich
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