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Is Chess Culture Important for Improving at Chess?

#31
@nDie_Zatoichi said in #25:
> I think it's the same as with any game/sport: Is knowledge of baseball history going to make a modern player better?
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> But you don't really need any comprehensive knowledge of baseball history, for that. And you definitely don't want to try to pitch or swing a bat like Babe Ruth used to. That's not gonna get you into pro baseball.
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Most of us are not going to go professional, and if you can play half as well as Capablanca, you will do very well.
#32
Chess is my favourite bored game and I hope to improve.
#33
@coledavis said in #31:
> Most of us are not going to go professional, and if you can play half as well as Capablanca, you will do very well.
#34
@coledavis said in #31:
> Most of us are not going to go professional, and if you can play half as well as Capablanca, you will do very well.
Huygy
#35
I think it’s very good to study games of former world champions and analyse their play, and see how it would contrast with a modern grandmaster. Currently I have been working on this and it connects the dots as well as shows the evolution of chess. For instance as an example, even the most dynamic of older gms in some of their greatest games underestimate opponents defensive resources due to an innate structural prejudice, which the modern grandmasters have overcome.
#36
@coledavis said in #31:
> Most of us are not going to go professional, and if you can play half as well as Capablanca, you will do very well.
Half? I would say one hundredth as well as Capablanca. Many people like to say that the classics would be like 2400 these days, those statements make themselves look like total bozos.
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