03 Aug '09 20:59>1 edit
I bought this book some time ago, but just today i picked it up and to my horror, he starts with end game principles, immediately the book left my hand as if it were a leprous finger from a recently deceased person. why should i learn endgame principles i thought, is it really necessary, will it bring me any joy or is it just one of those areas of chess that we must learn if we are to improve. It will be painful i thought, so dry that the trees shall be bribing the dogs, a veritable desert region! a cactus shadow loomed across the room and a lone coyote howled in the distance! has greenpawn learned any endgame principles I thought, mmm, he never really talks about them if he has, hes more interested in the cut and thrust of the middle game. Perhaps i can ignore it, just the same, i don't really like pawns that much anyhow, they just seem to get in the way of my pieces, should be sacrificed or gambited away at the first opportunity, doubled or tripled just to watch them squirm, the idea of trading down my pieces to reach a favourable endgame fills me with horror, is that really chess? perhaps its chess on a different level, a more subtle and sophisticated level?
i dunno, maybe i should lock myself in a room for several days, and try to assimilate end game principles, and awaken like the rising sun, dawning a new day of technical virtuosity. bah humbug, its just not me, i will always be a hacker, laying unsound traps, making unsound sacrifices, chasing kings during unsound attacks, encouraging my opponents counter play by one move plans!
i dunno, maybe i should lock myself in a room for several days, and try to assimilate end game principles, and awaken like the rising sun, dawning a new day of technical virtuosity. bah humbug, its just not me, i will always be a hacker, laying unsound traps, making unsound sacrifices, chasing kings during unsound attacks, encouraging my opponents counter play by one move plans!