I find it a very aesthetically pleasing game and would like to play it more, but Mrs HO absolutely thrashes me every time we play and neither of us gains much satisfaction from these one-sided contests.
Bloody hell, haven't played it in years, have forgotten the rules but would like to give it a go as I seem to remember loving it. Like chess, I would probably be thrashed by everyone and their six-year-old kid.
Is Reversi the American English name for the same game, à la draughts/checkers, noughts & crosses/tic-tac-toe? I've never knowingly played Othello, but I remember there was an excitingly all-singing, all-dancing (er, relatively) Atari 2600 version of Reversi, which is probably still the only exposure I've had to the game, on my brother's 32-In-1 game cartridge that came with the console in 1991. I recall aimlessly flipping counters on-screen with no real knowledge of the rules' subtleties or otherwise.
Yes, 1991, not 1981. We were a very backwards family, computerwise.
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