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Extremely boring. Drones on and on about minor or irrelevant details. Assumes extensive knowledge of the events and personalities of the period. Even worse, the prose is terrible. There's one paragraph that starts on the third line of page 54 and doe
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This is stupid. Capablanca explained exactly why he advocated studying endgames, and it had nothing to do with availability of material.
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There's a great debate out there about how useful endgames are, and some think Class C or Class A players is when stuff outside of the basics…
But nothing wrong with reading Capablanc…
My comment quite clearly was not about the validity (or lack thereof) of Capablanca's advise.
The author of this book claims "Had there been good b…