Jasiek Robert – Endgame : Mathematics

Jasiek Robert – Endgame : Mathematics (Volume 5). This mathematical textbook with definitions, theorems and their proofs establishes endgame evaluation as always correct truths. The book studies most important aspects of modern endgame theory. Introductions, many remarks and examples, 20 tables, several game trees and a few thermographs assist the reader.

Endgame 5 Mathematics justifies and verifies most of the theory of endgame evaluation of Volumes 2 – 4 and introduces further advanced theory. Besides excursions to combinatorial game theory and scoring, by far the largest part of the book develops modern endgame theory as the new field of endgame evaluation. While combinatorial game theory, which can be applied to various games including go, could explain the microendgame and provide some very general but rough approximations depending on the larger temperature, modern endgame theory better describes the large late endgame by de-emphasising the last move of the game and the early endgame by emphasising tighter approximations depending on the smaller drops between moves.