Absolute Counting in the endgame by O Meien and translated by John Fairbairn
has just been published.

For details on the book you may visit the publisher's website:
http://www.boardnstones.com/09-All_Titles-021-BNS021.php

Here, I would like to take the opportunity to quote John Fairbairn from the Translator's Note in the book:

"The origin of this translation goes back some years to when an endgame discussion took place on the Life in 19×19 internet forum. As a lifelong numerophobe, I was somewhat out of place there, but I had looked at O Meien’s book previously, and I could see that what Western experts said sometimes differed markedly from what O Meien said. Not understanding the topic well enough myself, but still wanting to contribute, I decided that the best way was to quote O Meien instead.
I therefore translated small tracts and posted those. Over time more tracts were added, and I found it easier in the end – to maintain consistency and so on in a topic that required precision – just to translate the whole text for myself. I stopped posting when the 10% “fair use” limit was looming, and then the whole text got filed away and forgotten, until Gunnar Dickfeld got wind of it.
He secured the necessary permissions, and by chance also discovered this his edition of 2013 now contained a little more than
my 2004 edition. Evidently, O Meien had been convinced of the need to explain a couple of things even more clearly for even a Japanese audience. Those bits have now been incorporated."

For these discussions on L19 see:

Amazing discovery confirms the end is not nigh

Can a double sente position exist?

Thank you, John, for your efforts in translating this book as a whole and making it available to a wider audience.

How to order
The book can be ordered online from well-known and lesser-known shops by searching for the ISBN (ISBN 978-3-98794-021-7) or the title.

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