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Jerzy

2005-05-27, 8:32 pm

Chess One wrote :
quote:

> He later admitted to me that his favorite historian was Ernst Stavro
> Grünfeld, who had a chess clinic in Switzerland. And I told him the secret
> history about Botvinnik being Cornish, original name was Mickey Penbottle,
> but, on being thrown out of the boy-scouts for an unspecified offence,
> went East under a new identity.


Phil, it`s interesting what actually the name "Botvinnik" means.

Probably it has sth in common with Ro-Bot and vinnik has sth in common with
winning. So his name means literally Winning Robot ;-)

Regards,

Jerzy


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