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Get Strong at Endgame

by Richard Bozulich

How do you win a won game? How do you win a lost game? Study the endgame! More specifically, study this book and you will get really strong at the endgame. (I'm assuming you have already read the elementary text K15 The Endgame. If you haven't, you should.) A great many upsets are pulled off in the endgame. Players often come out of the opening with a clear lead, only to see it dwindle away in the endgame. On the other hand, if your opening and middle game are not so strong, you can stage an upset in the endgame. Learning to count the value of moves will help you at every stage of the game, and will make you a winner more often.

This book starts out with a 42 - problem test. Even if you do badly at first, after studying the 120 endgame tesuji problems in Part Two, and the 101 endgame calculation problems in Part Three, you should be able to score nearly 100%. Just watch your game results improve as you climb the kyu ladder at your local club or on the Internet.

The book ends with 28 problems on 11 x 11 boards which illustrate the interplay between endgame moves of different values in realistic situations. You will learn when to go on the offensive with a sente move, and when to forgo sente moves for gote moves.

You can buy Get Strong at the Endgame for just $25.30 including postage within Australia.