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Alberto
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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Capablanca's advice worked more for Capablanca than others.

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…
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Silman's book on endgames is probably one of the more interesting of giving people enough endgame material at the right time, and at the right level for people.

But nothing wrong with reading Capablanc…
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@Tim Krabbe Reading comprehension fail on your part.

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…
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Agatha Christie
“One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.”
Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

David Horowitz
“They are for ‘freedom’ when it is freedom to kill third-term fetuses or engage in same-sex marriages or stuff coke up their noses; they do not define freedom as anything to do with captive peoples around the world having the chance to escape the tyrannies that constrain them. They like Fidel because he is a thorn in America’s side and a sort of dime-store existentialist, and they rhapsodize about his spreading of literacy in Cuba without considering the fact that at the same time that he teaches people to read he tortures writers like Armando Valladares whose books he doesn’t like.”
David Horowitz, The Black Book of the American Left: The Collected Conservative Writings

Mark R. Levin
“In 1999, USA Today analyzed the statistical link between CAFE standards and traffic fatalities and reported that “46,000 people have died in crashes they would have survived in bigger, heavier cars…since 1975.”32”
Mark R. Levin, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

Arthur C. Clarke
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
Arthur C. Clarke

Isaac Asimov
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
Isaac Asimov

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