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Suddenly I noticed capablanca was wrong

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KeSetoKaiba
Aug 22, 2020
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Capablanca was correct and you are wrong; chess isn't 100% tactics - even if only joking. 

Granted, tactics is very useful, but it is over-rated. What you intend to convey is the importance of pattern recognition and to this I agree, but so would Capablanca I'm sure. Endgame knowledge is essential from a strategy standpoint especially. It helps greatly to have confidence in your endgame ability and then be able to steer middlegames into those endgames happy.png

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marqumax
Jun 18, 2021
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Yes

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tygxc
Jun 18, 2021
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It was Teichmann who said chess is 99% tactics and modern engines prove him right: humans do not get to an endgame against an engine and succumb to middlegame tactics.