Editing Go strategy and tactics (section)

==''Sente'' and ''gote''==
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The concepts of ''sente'' and ''gote'' are important in higher level Go strategy.

A player whose moves compel the opponent to respond in a local position is said to have {{nihongo3||先手|sente}}, meaning the player has the initiative; the opponent is said to have {{nihongo||後手|gote}}. ''Sente'' means 'preceding move' (lit: 'before hand'), whereas ''gote'' means 'succeeding move' (lit: after hand'). 

One player attacks in ''sente''; the other defends in ''gote''. In most games, the player who is able to maintain ''sente'' controls the flow of the game and therefore has a significant advantage. A player usually accepts ''gote'' in order to defend a weak position or to achieve a local advantage such as securing territory. 

In the endgame ([[Go terms#Yose|''yose'']]) players typically try to play all available ''sente'' moves and then play the largest ''gote'' move on the board. A ''reverse sente'' play is a ''gote'' play that prevents the opponent from making a ''sente'' move.

When a player ignores an opponent's ''sente'' move and plays elsewhere, they are said to play ''[[tenuki]]''. Playing ''tenuki'' is as a kind of gambit where the player accepts a potential loss on the local level in order seize the initiative by playing elsewhere.