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Opening Repertoire
Capablanca notes that no fewer than 2/3 of the major chess openings have been in existence for at least 2 centuries. He focuses on the current repertoire. A few points:
How much do you know about these opening lines? By any chance, you’ve played them in games? Then you know a great deal more than most players, but have you really understood how they work?
In any opening, you should know what’s likely to follow and what to do in response.
In every opening you should be able to estimate the level of opposition you’ll encounter.
In every opening you should be able to play a line that will help you solve various problems in the position.
In every opening you should be able to be prepared for what your opponent will try to do.
Capablanca says that if you can master a single opening line, you can expect to be on top of your opponents’ games.
The aim is not to memorise any opening line, but to use it repeatedly until you can play it fluently and win games with it.
The Capablanca opens are the ideas behind some of the most famous opening lines of all time.THERE ARE CONFUSING and misleading headlines about the collapse in the oil price, focusing on the part which it played in causing the “Trump slump”, or even that it led to the stock market collapse.
The price of oil dropped from $74 a barrel to $30 a barrel and more over a period of just four weeks. By the end of the month it was down by a total of 50 per cent.
Graphic showing where oil price has been since the oil crisis of the 1970s.
The stock market has had a similar rollercoaster ride in the past few months.
The most recent trend for the Dow Jones (the Dow Jones Industrial Average is the widely followed benchmark of the stock market), the index lost 6.4 per cent between January to May this year and 13.7 per cent between October 2016 and April 2017.
But the price of oil has been falling steadily since the late 1970s and
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