Why Chess Endings are FAR MORE IMPORTANT than Chess Openings
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dpnorman wrote:
"Your age is showing". You are quite the snob. My friend, you wish you were my age. I know this due the countless times you have written "youth is wasted on the young" in these forums.
Insulting me for being a teenager is neither mature nor elegant. It's just obnoxious.
Have a fantastic rest of your day.
There's no problem with being a teenager, it's with "acting out" like one.
Your prose give you away, yet again.
Apr 7, 2016
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zborg wrote:
dpnorman wrote:
"Your age is showing". You are quite the snob. My friend, you wish you were my age. I know this due the countless times you have written "youth is wasted on the young" in these forums.
Insulting me for being a teenager is neither mature nor elegant. It's just obnoxious.
Have a fantastic rest of your day.
There's no problem with being a teenager, it's with "acting out" like one. Your prose give you away.
A few years from now (one hopes) you will have removed that broom from your arse, and the chip from your shoulder.
You don't have the necessary high ground to tell me that I'm "acting out", particularly given your repeated arrogant attitude towards people like me on these forums. You're neither a mature person nor a strong chess player. Give me a break. What makes you such a perfect model for behavior, huh? Your age? Please.
I deleted that last sentence, Norman. Too inflamatory for my virgin ears.
Consider getting a life outside chess. Then you won't find yourself "picking fights" in an anonymous internet chat room. It doesn't become you.
Apr 7, 2016
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zborg wrote:
I deleted that last sentence, Norman. Too inflamatory for my virgin ears.
Consider getting a life outside chess. Then you won't find yourself "picking fights" in an anonymous internet chat room. It doesn't become you.
Thanks for the advice, pal.
Reb wrote:
Whats with all the ageism ?
This forum followed the usual m.o. Started out well, decent discussion, devolved into "if you dont agree with me youre an idiot" insults, and trainwrecked into personal attacks.
Apr 7, 2016
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#209
It's becoming more difficult to ignore the personal attacks and focus on the topic.
SmyslovFan wrote:
It's becoming more difficult to ignore the personal attacks and focus on the topic.
This is exactly why i dont take these forums serious. The forums here might as well be yahoo chess. you try and post something informative/educational, and try to be helpful, and what do you get?
Attacks, insults, and ignorance.
"... What a chess master does not need to know.
(1) All the basic endgames. ..." - NM Peter Kurzdorfer (2015)
"... 'Chess Fundamentals' ... does not deal so minutely as this book will with the things that beginners need to know. ... The third volume will treat mainly of the openings. ..." - J. R. Capablanca in A Primer of Chess, a book that devotes about 50 pages to endings and about 50 pages to an introduction to the Ruy Lopez, the King's Gambit, the Centre Game, the Danish Gambit, and the Queen's Gambit
"... The idea of taking young players to the highest skill level with long-distance instruction, of course, is not new. ... In early 1990, Artur Yusupov and I decided to organize our own school. ... We planned to have six thematic sessions ... The first session was methodological. ... The theme of the second session was opening principles and work on one's opening repertoire. The third session was devoted to improvement in the endgame and mastery of technical skill. At the fourth session, we discussed rational thinking over the board, candidate-move search and the decision-making process, time management, etc. The fifth session was devoted to positional play. And the sixth ... session was devoted to attack and defense, combinational play, and creative risk-taking ..." - IM Mark Dvoretsky (1994)
The secret to youth is immaturity. I learned that lesson many years ago.
Some folks can't recognize a tautology, even when it hits them on the head. 
They prefer to pick fights and split hairs, instead.
zborg wrote:
The secret to youth is immaturity. I learned that lesson many years ago. Some folks can't recognize a tautology, even when it hits them on the head.
They prefer to pick fights and split hairs, instead.
I thought it was a nice tan, and the ability to dominate at beer pong?
For many it's being frightfully smug and watching PBS too often.
Not that's there anything wrong with that.
zborg wrote:
For many it's being frightfully smug and watching PBS too often.
Not that's there anything wrong with that.
Dont forget the sweater vest and pipe!
Five seasons of Downton Abbey was all I could handle. I'm a Steelers Fan at heart.
zborg wrote:
Five seasons of Downton Abbey was all I could handle. I'm a Steelers Fan at heart.
Up until the "im a steelers fan" i had some respect for you :-)
Praise the Lord, and Pass the Ammunition. A good time was had by all.
zborg wrote:
Praise the Lord, and Pass the Ammunition. A good time was had by all.
Here! Here!
... Any opening knowledge is totally useless without deep endgame understanding and ...
Didn't you tell us that, while lacking an understanding of the value of endgames, you went very fast to around 1500 FIDE (in a matter of months) by studying mainly openings?