“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.”
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Even more so in the case of chess books......
I much prefer to play a human opponent. I do consult chess books in the opening.
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