Author: Ben Seeley

The best resource for learning comprehensive strategy is Brian Rose’s free Othello ebook- http://www.ffothello.org/livres/othello-book-Brian-Rose.pdf The US Othello Association’s official website is usothello.org (surprise! you’re here already!), it has some resources as well, including a blog (self-referentialism for the win!). Tournaments are usually listed on this domain. There is also a Facebook group page for the

The story I heard was that the “Kung” opening (F5 D6 C3 D3 C4 F4 F6 B4) was originally named “Kling”, after Arnold Kling, an Othello player in America. But a Russian guy who made the list of opening names which ended up getting popularized, misread “Kling” as “Kung”, and the openings became known as

I placed 2nd out of 56 players. I think this was a good result, it was better than I was expecting. Yusuke Takanashi (surprise!) won the tournament with no losses at all. And I had a lot more discs than anyone else on 5 wins, but Takanashi had WAY more discs than I had, so

Edmund Yiu and I had a discussion a while back in Google Docs about a position that interested him. I’m lazy but occasionally creative, so I finally realized I could just post a link to the Google Doc, and then you guys can read the discussion-article in Google Docs. By the way, Google Docs can

Lololol. So, last night I dreamt that I lost to Yusuke Takanashi 4 times during the WOC. And I wasn’t very happy about it, too. And when I woke up I was like “that’s crazy, it isn’t even possible to lose to Takanashi 4 times in the WOC, I can only lose 3 times maximum”.

In some past years I had projections for other players but this year I think it’s the least I’ve ever known about other players so I’m going in partially blind. But I know myself pretty well at this point so I figured maybe that’s an interesting topic for some people who want the latest gossip.