Thursday, November 03, 2005

Taking sente

Democratic Senate leaders started out the month of November with a closed session. The ostensible reason for the session was to deal with Iraqi intelligence.

The real reason was to take sente. "A move is sente if the opponent has to answer it..." The closed session focused attention on whatever issues the Democrats wanted to bring up.

The problem with taking sente is that you have to do something useful with it while you have it. If you don't have a plan, you won't keep sente, and your brilliant play won't be available when you do have a plan.

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