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The Andromeda Strain
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Alberto Alberto said: " 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 ...more "

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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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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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