How NOT to Lose 30 Points in the Endgame

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The most important things you need to know about the endgame.

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Everyone looks at endgame with caution — it’s the last part of the game that might seem unessential. Many of the moves in the endgame look similar and very small. In this course we will learn to see the difference between them and how to calculate their value.

A few simple techniques — and you will stop treading water in the endgame and giving away your hard-won points left and right. Your endgame will not be the same anymore.

Suitable for: 14–3k. This course explains the basics of playing endgame but it can be also interesting for stronger SDK players.

Teacher

Vadim Efimenko 4d

Amateur Go player and nerdy Go research aficionado. Co-founder of Go Magic.
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Course Includes

10 Lessons
10 Quizzes
~ 2 hours

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Posted 3 weeks ago

The course was very clear and interactive. I liked the way hierarchy of sente/gote was explained - at last I got that;) thank you! highly recommend!

Posted 1 month ago

Really great course! I will quite likely be returning to this several times as I hone my Go skills.

Posted 2 months ago

It's very clear and helpful!

Posted 2 months ago

Great course, I will need to get back to it a few time before I will be able to put all of what is presented here into practice

Posted 2 months ago

Vadim, your love and enthusiasm for the game makes what could have been a grindingly tedious subject a real joy to work through. Many thanks!

Posted 5 months ago

This course really changed how I think about the endgame. Now in many games I really try to focus on playing the best end game I can, instead of just making "automatic moves". I think this course also makes an impact in your play more easily. That is, it doesn't require an effort to learn/remember sequences of moves, you just need to learn the concepts and them apply those in your end game.

Posted 5 months ago

OK, now I really started to understand the yose move values. The systematic way of explaining the moves on different levels was very good. And the flashcards are definitely helpful. I can definitely recommend this course.

Posted 6 months ago

I learned a lot and thanks to gomagic it wasn’t as boring as I expected since endgame is not my favourite topic. For myself, there will be definitely a great value in re-watching it.

Posted 6 months ago

As usual, an excellent course from Go Magic. Good coverage of the topic, and I really learned some useful stuff that is helping me in my games already. The only part where a few more examples and walk-throughs would have improved things is in the part where one has to calculate the size of an end-game move. I found this part really tricky.

Posted 6 months ago

wow

Posted 6 months ago

No wonder I was losing with dozens of points, clearly this is the only thing any one needed to see to improve their endgame! Everything else, is just a toy. Edit: I strongly suggested you come back to it after a while..

Posted 7 months ago

A few knew tricks to be mindful of. Don't quite understand the 4x scoring thing. Order of Endgame importance is good to put in your back pocket, unless you don't have a back pocket, then you just might want to remember it. Like that the Endgame moves were broken down by Lines. A handful of challenging quiz questions.

Posted 7 months ago

Great course

Posted 8 months ago

I absolutely loved it!

Posted 10 months ago

very high quality content. I wish a more methodical explanation for "calculating the value of a move" was given.

Posted 11 months ago

although there were problems in the explanation of some of the questions, it was a great lesson again

Posted 1 year ago

I had difficulty with this course and had to go over the lessons several times. I had fun with the materials though. I am going to put into practice the materials in my next game!

Posted 1 year ago

Good course. Difficult but necessary.

Posted 1 year ago

I like how each lesson is quite short and then there are interactive exercises in the end! Nice work! 🙂

Posted 1 year ago

Awesome contents for the endgame !!

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