A personality modelled on Mikhail Botvinnik, world champion for most of the period from 1948 to 1963, and often called the patriarch of the Soviet chess school. Botvinnik treated chess the way the electrical engineer he also was would: careful analysis at home, a clear plan at the board, and technique to convert the advantage.
Like the other historical personalities on Chessy it runs on Rodent IV rather than a weakened Stockfish, so its character comes from how it evaluates positions rather than from how often it errs.
Rodent IV's notes describe this personality as balanced and careful about pawn structure, and it weighs passed pawns and structure more heavily than most. Games against it tend to be decided by a weakness created early and exploited much later.
How it plays
- ▸Balanced and principled: no wild attacks, no passivity
- ▸Pays close attention to pawn structure and long-term weaknesses
- ▸Pushes passed pawns and converts endgames methodically
- ▸Will accept doubled pawns when it gets activity in return
Who should play it
Learning how a small structural advantage becomes a win, and practising patient defence of a slightly worse position.
Things they say
Chess is the art of analysis. Let us analyse.
That is a structural error. It will matter later.
The advantage is clear. Now, technique.
Preparation, then technique. That is the method.
A style emulation, not the player, and not affiliated with or endorsed by the Botvinnik estate. The 2720 is a rating requested from Rodent IV, which honours it by limiting how much the engine calculates; it is not a measured strength.
