types of endgame sente plays
Keywords: EndGame
The basic and very important division is between:
- double sente, i.e. sente for whoever plays first;
- one-sided sente, i.e sente for Black and gote for White, or vice versa.
A double sente play, however small[1], confers advantage to the player taking it, and so is very urgent.
See Play double sente early and basic endgame theory.
[1] Double sente is, by its very nature, large in comparison to other plays. It smallness is only apparent.