Editing Mikhail Botvinnik (section)

== Team tournaments ==
[[File:Szabo Botwinnik Oberhausen 1961 high-quality.jpg|340px|thumb|Botvinnik (right) vs. [[László Szabó (chess player)|Szabo]], Oberhausen 1961]]
Botvinnik was selected for the Soviet Olympiad team from 1954 to 1964 inclusively, and helped his team to gold medal finishes each of those six times. At [[11th Chess Olympiad|Amsterdam 1954]] he was on board one and won the gold medal with 8½/11. Then at home for Moscow 1956, he was again board one, and scored 9½/13 for the bronze medal. For [[13th Chess Olympiad|Munich 1958]], he scored 9/12 for the silver medal on board one. At [[14th Chess Olympiad|Leipzig 1960]], he played board two behind Mikhail Tal, having lost his title to Tal earlier that year, but he won the board two gold medal with 10½/13. He was back on board one for [[15th Chess Olympiad|Varna 1962]], scored 8/12, but failed to win a medal for the only time at an Olympiad. His final Olympiad was [[16th Chess Olympiad|Tel Aviv 1964]], where he won the bronze with 9/12, playing board 2 as he had lost his title to Petrosian. Overall, in six Olympiads, he scored 54½/73 for an outstanding
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Botvinnik also played twice for the USSR in the European Team Championship. At [[Oberhausen]] 1961, he scored 6/9 for the gold medal on board one. But at [[Hamburg]] 1965, he struggled on board two with only 3½/8. Both times the Soviet Union won the team gold medals. Botvinnik played one of the final events of his career at the [[Russia (USSR) vs Rest of the World]] match in [[Belgrade]] 1970, scoring 2½/4 against [[Milan Matulović]], as the USSR narrowly triumphed.