Capablanca voiced an opinion on the superiority of endings over debuts. To this day, this causes controversy among supporters of debuts. Like Karpov, Kasparov or Carlsen. Although Carlsen doesn’t make a statement about which is more important, he only says that when learning to play chess, he spent a lot of time on debuts.
But. Capablanca did not say that he negates debuts and their importance. He said that he prefers to devote time or more time to endings as debuts. That they are, for him or in his opinion, more important. This does not mean that he thought it was possible to win at chess without an elementary knowledge of debuts.
We announce a third, our theory. In our opinion, the middle game, after the debit, is the most important. That’s when real chess begins. And the debut? You should come out of the debut without losing a piece or a pawn and with the pieces well set up for attack. Of course, an elementary knowledge of these is absolutely necessary. A lesser knowledge of them will only result in the opponent using up 2 minutes for his moves in the debut, and, knowing debuts less well, 10 minutes. And that’s basically it.
ps.
Today, before the 11th game referring to the statement in the previous post (Fb website) that Gukesh will attack with white, I wrote:
I assume that Gukesh will attack in the 11th game, playing with white. And this is what happened.
Gukesh won with white. Of course, this is not the end of the match, but he leads by one point.