Mark Butler is a great, intelligent and educated person. He was a champion in chess competitions, but decided to leave the practice alone and move on to theory. Butler was an excellent coach, thanks to his training, many grandmaster players are developing in our country.
A bit about chess
Chess is the oldest game that appeared in India. She has a long history. Chess, in its essence, is a logical and sporting game. But she also develops willpower, concentration, and creative thinking.
The game has a 64-cell board and 32 pieces. Cells of black and white alternate with each other, 16 figures of black and 16 figures of white colors. The essence of the game of chess is to checkmate the figure of the enemy king. To do this, you need to think through each move, so for the game you need to think logically and know the rules well.
One game can drag on for several hours or even days, which contributes to the formation of willpower and character. Many people have learned this. Someone has become a famous player throughout the country or the world, while someone has remained an amateur. One of the great players and the best coaches in the world was Mark Izrailevich Dvoretsky, who became famous for his victories in chess games in Georgia, Russia and the USSR.
Mark Dvoretsky: biography
Butler was born in Moscow on December 9, 1947. He received a mathematical education at Moscow State University, but continued his life's path in the chess direction. A few years after graduation, he became a professional chess player.
After victories at the world level, Butler Mark Izrailevich began to write books teaching chess mastery, at the same time he began to train chess players who later became masters of sports in chess and great grandmasters not only in the USSR and Russia, but also abroad. These people include: Sergey Dolmatov, Arthur Yusupov, Nana Alexandria, Evgeny Bareev.
Mark Dvoretsky has written many very useful quality theoretical and practical books. According to them, you can learn independently and achieve good results. Now these books are very popular, they are studied by everyone: from small to great. More than one generation of chess players has grown up on these books, among whom there are champions.
An excellent analytical mindset was endowed with Mark Dvoretsky. The Endgame Textbook, which he wrote, reveals very well the talent for mastering chess techniques, as well as the coaching skills of Mark Dvoretsky. He could quickly find the right solution in any situation, whether it was a life or chess problem.
Butler Mark Izrailevich was a very intelligent and educated person. You could talk to him about everything. He sincerely cared for his students and worried about them, always supporting and giving instructions if they began to give up. Very hardworking was Mark Butler. Chess - that’s what he didn’t get tired of thinking, thinking and writing, choosing various methods and tactics. Even when he became ill, he did not stop writing books, correcting errors that his students gently pointed out to him. And for this, Mark Dvoretsky was not angry with them, but, on the contrary, thanked. He was worried that because of these mistakes, the most important chess competitions could fail and his students would lose.
Achievements of Mark Butler
1973 was a significant year for Mark Dvoretsky in that he became the champion of Moscow in chess. In the USSR Championship in 1974, Mark Dvoretsky took 5th and 7th places. In the same year, in foreign tournaments Polyanice-Zdroj and Wijk aan Zee, he also became a champion.
The butler had just a little before the title of grandmaster, but he decided to teach and train other people, to give them his experience in playing chess. Soon, the skill to transfer experience exceeded his practical skills, and in 1979, 1981 and 1987 he became an honored chess coach of the RSFSR, Georgia and the USSR, and also became an honored FIDE trainer.
Today, Mark Izrailevich is the most authoritative, successful and professional trainer in the world. His theoretical and practical methods are still being studied by his large generation of students.
During his life, the honored master taught chess mastery to Nan Alexandria, Arthur Yusupov, Alexei Dreyev, Alexander Motylev, Sergey Dolmatov, Ivan Popov, Viorel Bologan, Vadim Zvyagintsev, Ernesto Inarkiev, Vladimir Potkin and other chess players. Thanks to this training, they in youth ranks became world, country, and European champions, and also claimed the highest chess title. The butler had the experience of teaching not only to an individual student, but also to an entire national team at once.
Mark Dvoretsky became the author of many books and articles in which he expressed his thoughts and ideas. They have gained great popularity and to which almost all chess players in the world are trained to this day. Such books include: “The textbook of the endgame of Mark Dvoretsky”, “Development of the creative thinking of a chess player”, “Positional game”, “Technique in a chess game”, “Secrets of opening preparation”, “Methods of chess teaching”, “Etudes for practitioners”, “ Matching game ”and other famous books.
The book "School of Excellence. Endgame. Matching Game "
The very first book, which is intended for beginner chess players, as well as grandmasters. The author describes various approaches for making any decisions that arise when playing chess. The book has four parts.
“School of excellence. Matching Game "
This is the second book in the series from the title. It was written in order to make a top-class chess player out of a student. It was first released in Russian with additions and corrections. It sets out various test tasks and exercises that should develop the tactics of chess mastery, a refined look at combinations and tactics of thinking over moves ahead.
“School of excellence. Strategy"
The third part, in which memorable fragments from the games of the students of Mark Izrailevich are told. There are even complete games. Answers are also given to questions that arose during the competition between top-level chess players.
“School of excellence. Complex parties "
The fourth part of the book from a series of titles, it is the final one. The book before its middle describes issues of how to become a grandmaster, the search for the secrets of theoretical and practical moves. The second half of the book describes the most difficult chess game of Mark Dvoretsky, his thoughts at that moment, ideas, analysis of each move, mistakes and mechanisms for their correction. It also gives tips and tricks on how to prepare well for a chess game, game or competition. Only this one describes tactics and techniques, analyzes and materials of chess mastery.
“Mark Butler analyzes. Workshop for future champions »
The book is published in two volumes. They include absolutely all the author’s moves, his decisions, analyzes, findings and thoughts. The psychological struggle of the writer is also described. Since the author is a very sensitive, intelligent and educated person, he outlined all the smallest details in this book so that the student, reading, would delve into the very essence of the game, learn to control his thoughts, movements and think through all his moves.
Cause of death of Mark Dvoretsky
Chess coach died on September 26, 2016 in Moscow. He was 68 years old. Sources are silent about why he died. One of his students said that in August he was seriously ill, but continued to work on his manuscripts, to correct and supplement errors, and therefore it was difficult to say that the writer and trainer were ill. What was sick was not called. Therefore, the cause of death of Mark Dvoretsky is unknown. He was buried at Mitinsky cemetery.