Re: The Euphemism in Botvinnik

<ttk5079@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> A particularly relevant quote from the Winter article is this,
> written by Bohatirchuk in 1949:
>
> "[Botvinnik's] trainer (now perhaps a whole retinue of trainers)
> works out theoretical novelties for him and tests them in play with
> other masters; publication of these trial games is forbidden until
> Botvinnik uses that particular variation."
>
> This, from a Soviet defector, sup****ts the notion that Botvinnik
> was, at least to some extent, controlling chess information in Russia.

Sure but that's standard stuff, surely?  Doesn't every top-ten player
do that, except that these days, the trial games are probably against
the computer?


Dave.

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