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For conditions, please view the photographs. The endgame tends to be the neglected side of the game of go. This is strange indeed, for it also tends to be where the outcome is decided, and frequently accounts for about half the stones played. This volume, by a Japanese professional go player and a strong American amateur, seeks to rectify this situation by setting forth the basic tactics, strategies and counting techniques needed in the endgame.

Everything from the smallest local tesujis to the global macro endgame is covered. With numerous examples and problems, many of them drawn from the Japanese author’s professional games. The reader is encouraged to think for himself and, by doing so, will certainly become stronger.

Review: there are 211 in this fine book. Outstanding book of problems, many very insightful where one delicate move wins or loses! Most Go endgame-dedicated books are hard to find, “200 problems” (Haruhiko) has been out of print for a year, and Bozulich’s Get Strong at the Endgame (Get Strong at Go Series) (Beginner and Elementary Go Books) comes and goes, but is usually reasonable when you can find it used. The present book by Tomoko is volume 6 in a series published by Kiseido called the elementary go series. If you can’t find these here, once in a while you can find them on abe books, Amazon’s sister company for rare books. Given some of the pricing, this is becoming a collector’s item!

Tomoko Ogawa was born in 1951 in Nagoya and died in 2020. In 1965, at the age of fourteen, she won the Women’s Amateur Honinbo Tournament, which led the following year to her entrance into the Kitani Go School in Tokyo. There she became a professional go player. Her promotion record is: Shodan 1970 2-dan 1971 3-dan 1974 4-dan 1975 5-dan 1992 6-dan 1995 In 1975 she scored an impressive 18 wins, 7 losses in professional competition and was named the outstanding woman player of the year by Kido magazine. She is also well-known abroad, having made go-playing visits to China and Europe.

James Davies was born in 1945 in Philadelphia. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1967 and entered graduate school at the University of Washington, only to have a mathematics professor interest him in the game of go. In 1970 he came to Japan, where his go playing has advanced to the amateur 6-dan level. Besides having been a regular contributor to the magazine Go World, he has written a number of books for Kiseido, among which are: 38 Basic Josekis Tesuji Attack and Defense He currently lives in Fukuoka, Japan.