Definitions for "Pente"
A formation of five stones of the same color in a row. This is one of the two ways of winning the game. (The other is making five captures.) This is also a trademarked name of the game used in the West*.
Pente is a board game created in 1978 by Gary Gabrel. It is a slight simplification of the Japanese game of ninuki-renju, a variant of gomoku played on a Go board of 19 x 19 intersections with white and black stones. The players alternate in placing stones of their color on free intersections; White begins.