La Diagonale du Figaro N°40: Lucena, Philidor... some essential endings.
José Raul Capablanca liked to say that mastery of endgames, and especially its study, often proved more useful than an encyclopedic knowledge of opening theory. The success of Karpov, among others, the ideal homo sovieticus, was based above all on diabolical precision in so-called simple positions. In the final, to put it bluntly, the slightest mistake can no longer be made up for.