Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player and engineer (died 1995)

Mikhail Botvinnik

Soviet chess grandmaster (1911–1995)

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. He also had a…