All chess player Mikhail Botvinnik

Mikhail Botvinnik

Living place: Russia

Birthday: 17-8-1911

Global rank: #70193

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Who is All chess player Mikhail Botvinnik?
Soviet chess grandmaster and three-time world champion who helped design the World Chess Championship system after World War II.
He worked as an electrical engineer and computer scientist at the same time he competed in professional chess, making him one of the very few professional chess players to have achieved distinction in other career.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He learned to play chess on a homemade set and won his first Soviet championship at the age of 20.

Family life info

His parents are both dentists.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling All chess player Mikhail Botvinnik?
He was the teacher of chess legend Garry Kasparov.

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When was All chess player Mikhail Botvinnik born?
Mikhail Botvinnik was born in 17-8-1911, death year is , at the age of 113.
Where is All chess player Mikhail Botvinnik's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Mikhail Botvinnik was born in Russia. is a All chess player, whose Zodiac is Leo, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Pig. Mikhail Botvinnik's global rank is 70193 and whose rank is 88 in list of famous All chess player.
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Events in 1911 and 17-8

Events in the world in the birth year of Mikhail Botvinnik

  • First use of aircraft as offensive weapon occurs in Turkish-Italian War. Italy defeats Turks and annexes Libya.
  • Chinese Republic proclaimed after revolution overthrows Manchu dynasty. Sun Yat-sen named president. Background: Chinese Dynasties.
  • Mexican Revolution: Porfirio Diaz, president since 1877, replaced by Francisco Madero.
  • Roald Amundsen becomes first man to reach South Pole. Quiz: Explorers & Adventurers
  • U.S. explorer Hiram Bingham discovers Incan city of Machu Picchu.

Birthday Mikhail Botvinnik (17-8) in history

  • Day 17-8 year 1807: Robert Fulton's steamboat, the Clermont, began its trip up the Hudson River to Albany.
  • Day 17-8 year 1863: Fort Sumter, S.C. was bombarded by Union ships during the Civil War.
  • Day 17-8 year 1896: Prospectors found gold in Alaska, a discovery that set off the Klondike gold rush.
  • Day 17-8 year 1945: Indonesian nationalists proclaimed independence from the Netherlands.
  • Day 17-8 year 1962: 18-year-old Peter Fechter was shot and killed by guards at the Berlin Wall, spurring riots.
  • Day 17-8 year 1969: Hurricane Camille devastated the Gulf Coast, killing 248 people.
  • Day 17-8 year 1978: The first successful trans-Atlantic balloon flight landed outside of Paris.
  • Day 17-8 year 1987: Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's second in command, committed suicide.
  • Day 17-8 year 2008: U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps won his eighth gold medal, breaking the record set by Mark Spitz in the 1972 Games. Phelps also set the record for the most golds in a single Olympics.
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