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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.
“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”
― Chapterhouse: Dune
― Chapterhouse: Dune
“Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a
different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.”
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different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.”
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“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
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“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.”
― The Black Book of the American Left: The Collected Conservative Writings
― The Black Book of the American Left: The Collected Conservative Writings
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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…