![]() Playing in these fields can be dangerous, especially when there are yours and enemy pieces near the edge of the board. You can also easily lose a corner by playing in a field adjacent to the corner vertically or horizontally. It’s dangerous to play there and mostly you need to avoid this. Some authors of books about Othello call these fields “X-squares”. If you play in one of these fields your opponent will be able to capture your disk by playing just in the corner. Those fields are shown on the image below. It’s really easy to lose a corner if you play in one of 4 fields adjacent to corner diagonally. Sometimes Othello player would like to make no moves, but of course he must play if there is such possibility. The passing of the move would be a great loss. In games like Chess player must attack to win. This applies also to Othello, even more than to Chess. He also said that “The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made.” Renowned Polish chess player Savielly Tartakower said that the winner of the game is not the one who plays better, but the one who make less mistakes. So what can you do to win corner first? Othello as a “defensive” game It seems simple, but when you play with strong opponent, he also tries to win a corners and build stable discs. One of the goals of the good player is to achieve a large number of stable discs. Black discs are unstable because they do not adhere to a corner. What’s more, it is possible to use them as a base for further attacks. ![]() They will not change color to do the end of the game. Those white stable disks are totally immune to attack. There are 17 stable white discs so… all white discs are stable. they “adhere” to the group of discs of the same color, when this group is adjacent to the disc in the corner.Įxample is shown on the image below.they “adhere” to the disc of the same color standing in a corner or.If you put your disc in the corner it will be always stable. It is impossible to catch discs in corners because such discs are adjacent to only three fields (with no possibility to create catching position). You probably already know that capturing discs in Othello requires cathing (sandwiching) enemy discs in vertical or horizontal or diagonal line, as shown on the picture below. They are of great importance because they can be a basis to build victory Corners and stable discs Only some discs can be stable – it’s impossible to capture such discs. With premature attack you just generate a lot of unstable discs, and those discs will be flipped at the end of the game by your opponent. That’s why it’s important to attack at the right time. They can change color (and ownership) many times during one game. You can easily loss discs captured in first moves.ĭiscs lying on the board are usually unstable. It’s good to capture the large number of discs, but when the game comes to an end. Most beginners make the mistake of capturing the maximum number of discs in each move. The winner is the Player who ends the game with the highest number of own discs. Winner is not the player who captures many discs throughout the game. You can’t win at Othello if you don’t understand the aim of the game. How did this happen? Basic problem – the aim of the game Maybe you had the impression that you’re doing well but at the end you lost. Perhaps you tried to play Othello with a human player or with computer. ![]() In my articles game pieces are called “discs” (it is common term in books and articles on Othello). I emphasize that my articles are about Othello – modern, standardized version of the Reversi on 8×8 board. If not, please read my article on history and rules of the game. I want to share this knowledge in series of articles. I spent some time playing, learning strategies and tactics and analyzing my own mistakes. Othello is one of my favorite board games. These people already know how to play, but they don’t know know how to win. I know some people found it because they were looking for information on Othello strategy and tactics. My article on Reversi and Othello was quite popular.
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