200 Endgame Problems Winning Tactics
200 Endgame Problems: Winning Tactics by Shirae Haruhiko is a collection of endgame problems split into two sections. The first section entitled Basic Problems and Application Problems. Techniques that should be learned from the Basic Problems section are further elaborated in the Application Problems section. One focus of the book is using sacrifice stones to change a local sequence from gote to sente.
The book is not a discussion of endgame theory and does not provide an explanation of sente, gote, and double sente endgame sequences. That material should be learned elsewhere. Neither is the book a guide to counting in the endgame and how to determine the proper order of the various endgame sequences to be played. Both of these questions are handled in detail in The Endgame.
This book should be used in conjunction with The Endgame and Get Strong at the Endgame.
See the publisher's blurb
Sample pages http://www.slateandshell.com/pdf/sssh001.pdf.
There's a review at gobooks.info.
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