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Originally Posted by KyleJRM82
Would you rather:
Play every conceivable opening to theoretical perfection through 12 moves.
or
Play every endgame of six pieces or less to theoretical perfection.
I think the endgames would be more valuable in terms of improving your overall score, but I'd rather be able to play theoretically perfect openings personally. My reason is simply that tablebases exist, and therefore computers can already play six piece endgames perfectly, so having that ability myself wouldn't be a unique skill to the world of chess. No human OR machine can come even CLOSE to playing openings perfectly though, not even for four or five moves, much less twelve. So even though it probably wouldn't help me as much in terms of winning games, I'd much prefer to be able to do that.