hey smaughster!
i recall playing you, we had some great games at GT :)
and Arnie: please show me how someone could cheat on 1 min game! (for those of you who dont know the rules of it: its 1 min per player and game, not per move, so if you can't handle at least 50 different openings at least 10 moves deep the game is over before you really start)

blaickner

thx Gary Barnes :))

lol! cant you take a loss?
i spent 9 years on this game, over 20.000 rated games at igz, countless games when we had a teaching group as "Yo"-players there, rating over 2100 at VOG1, prefered games 1 and 5-min tourneys, ask top players like Göran, Sheepsheep, Tyrant or Marius2J if they know my name :)
since i am on a linux system now i can't play realtime games, there are no austrian championships, and i am far away of tramping to germany or holland to play in an OTB tourney, can hardly afford my internet access at the moment...

I totally agree with you, Gary. Reversi is infact the same game as othello. The "parallell" opening gives a huge disadvantage to the player who moves first (which is white here ).
Top players will never come to this site as long as the following isn't corrected:
1.) Fixed diagonal opening
2.) Black moves first
3.) A1 has to be the upper left corner (letters on the top, number on the sides)

The official championships are played over the board, not online; but it still would be fun to have some real competition in here :)

to see how its done to play perfect at 6x6 have a look at :

www.maths.nott.ac.uk/personal/jff/othello/6x6sol.html

you might also be interested in the official rules which can be read at sites like:

http://www.ugateways.com/bof4.html

and many more othello-related links at

http://bluez2000.tripod.com/OthelloLinks.html

hope this helps you!

katharina blaickner =)

black does have an advantage at openings, white has the profit of parity* as a default
so in long terms its pretty equal =Þ


* i am not going to explain parity here, read it at www.vog.ru/reversi

no, both games would takes years on SGI workstations to be solved

true, that was back in July 1993
details at
http://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/personal/jff/othello/6x6sol.html
and
http://www.maths.nott.ac.uk/othello/Jul93/Amenor.html

if you are ever to play in a real tournament (ie over the board) you will be glad to have practiced with the official rules :)
4 pieces layed out diagonal, black starts