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**help bot**

wrote:

CL: If someone would only study one chess player, who would you
recommend?

GME: That's a tough question (thinks for a bit) probably Botvinnik.
(note: i know i should of asked why botvinnik. i wanted to ask why.
but i didn't want to keep the guy any longer because he was busy, so i
decided to forgo actual quality for quantity).

My best guess is that GM Evans probably selected GM
Botvinnik because of the objectivity of his game annotations
and the fact that he played many of the best players of the
era which someone like LE might consider to be the golden
age of chess.

I once read (or *started* to read, perhaps) the book One
Hundred Selected Games, and found the quality of play to
be quite impressive relative to certain other famous
masters, but even so it is a bit surprising to see LE say
anything good about MB.

As far as "forgoing quality", that interviewer exceeded all
my expectations.

-- help bot