Botvinnik was a very serious competitor...........took great care of his health ( exercising and avoiding alcohol, tobacco ). Am all for his methods. He used top notch training partners to play serious games. very scientific type guy. ( am not going to open the above link )
What do you think about Botvinnik's method of preparing for competition?
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The link in the OP's initial post above is safe. It's an article by Dan Heisman in the ChessCafe.com archives. There is a lot of very useful and instructive content in the archives...
https://web.archive.org/web/20140625052220/http://www.chesscafe.com/archives/archives.htm
Note the page may take a little while to load as the servers are sometimes a little slow.
"... everyone is different, so what works for one person may likely fail with another ..." - NM Dan Heisman (2002)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627084053/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman19.pdf