![]() When the Othello board game first came out, its slogan was “A moment to learn, a lifetime to master.” This accurately sums up the game. It’s impersonal and it doesn’t even have the same potential for story-telling or narrative that even a chess set has because of its different characters. There is no luck in it, so it is not a good game for players with large differences such as an adult and a young child. Othello is a board game, but it’s truly a strategy game. If you want to impress people and play more than one game at the same time, this is a good game for that. Because the position on the board is everything, this is a game where you don’t have to remember a complicated history: just look at the board and figure out where to go next. You can enjoy this game as a not-so-good player and it is enjoyable for the advanced player (as long as the beginner and the advanced player don’t play each other!). ![]() Like chess, good Othello players anticipate what their opponents will be doing and play accordingly. The Othello board game is an easy one to learn, unlike chess, where you have to master the moves of lots of different pieces and then various opening gambits. With the right strategy, you can force your opponent to take moves he or she doesn’t really want to take and give yourself an advantage. The squares next to corners are dangerous because corners can so easily be taken via those squares. For example, if you take a corner, your piece cannot be flipped, so corners are strategically good, most of the time. Each move has to create a flip of some sort and if you have no moves, your opponent gets another move, until either the board is full or both players have run out of moves.The architecture of the board is significant to the game. White goes first and puts a piece down to flip one of the black pieces. The game begins with four pieces in the middle - two black and two white, arranged in a square, with the colors forming an X. A totally black board can turn mostly white in a couple of strategic moves. What is neat is that you really cannot tell who is winning (unless you are aware of Othello strategy) until the very end of the game. Whoever has the most pieces at the end wins. If you are black and there is a black game piece at one end of a line of white pieces, you can put your black piece at the other end of the line and turn all the pieces in the line to your color. The idea of the Othello game is to “surround” your opponent’s pieces with your color. There are 64 game pieces and at the end of the game, most or all of the board will end up covered in playing pieces. The board is 64 squares and the game pieces are black on one side and white on the other. Othello is a seemingly simple game, because the Othello game rules are so straightforward. It’s a fun and easy introduction to board game strategy for younger players and will not bore the rest of the family, either! ![]() The above discussion is nothing more than a primer to introduce you to a few concepts of Othello strategy.The Othello board game doesn’t take long to learn, but the possible strategies are endless. now has an advanced reversi strategy guide if you would like to go more in depth on this topic. Of course, at some point in the game you will abandon this strategy and beginning flipping your opponent’s pieces in earnest. The essence of this strategy is the fewer disks you have in play, the fewer options your opponent will have. One example of this is the so-called “minimum disk strategy”. To achieve your objective, you need to make plays that limit your opponent’s options and force them into certain moves. However, taking corners is not the ultimate goal but rather part of the overall strategic picture. Good players work towards setting themselves up to take corners. The advantage to taking the corners is obvious: a corner piece cannot be flipped by your opponent. That’s why good computer opponents beat good human players. Computers are much more proficient at looking ahead and analyzing possible outcomes than humans are.
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