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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.
“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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“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”
― Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
― Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
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“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
“One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.”
― The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side
― The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side
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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…