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Chess World Champions: Mikhail Botvinnik - Features a biography and game playable through a java applet.
World Chess Championship 1960: Tal - Botvinnik - Provides .PGN games, crosstable, and key game positions from this FIDE match.
Fide Title Tournament 1948: Botvinnik - Features downloadable .PGN Games, crosstable, and key game positions of 5-player tournament (Smyslov, Reshevsky, Keres, Euwe) held after Alekhine died holding title.

Mikhail Botvinnik - |datebirth = August 17, 1911
Interregnum of World Chess Champions - The Interregnum of World Chess Champions was the period between March 24, 1946 (the date of Alexander Alekhine's death) and May 17, 1948 (when Mikhail Botvinnik won a special championship tournament).
World Chess Championship 1963 - At the World Chess Championship 1963 Tigran Petrosian narrowly qualified to challenge Mikhail Botvinnik for the World Chess Championship, and then won the match to become the 9th World Chess Champion. The cycle is particularly remembered for the controversy surrounding the Candidates' Tournament at Curaçao in 1962.
AVRO tournament - The AVRO tournament was a chess tournament held in the Netherlands in 1938, sponsored by the Dutch broadcasting company Algemeene Vereeniging Radio Omroep. Eight of the world's top players took part: World Champion Alexander Alekhine, former champions José Raúl Capablanca and Max Euwe, and potential challengers Mikhail Botvinnik, Paul Keres, Reuben Fine, Samuel Reshevsky and Salo Flohr.
John Littlewood (chess player) - John Littlewood (born 1931) was a very strong British chess player. Perhaps his most famous game was the one he lost against the world champion Mikhail Botvinnik at the Hastings Chess Congress 1961/2.