ABSTRACT
See Figure 13.1.The traditional game Reversi is sold today as the game ‘Othello’. It has very simple rules, yet the game has all the hallmarks of a game of skill, namely that a good player will always beat a poor player; luck does not play any role.Each player uses the same counters; these are colored differently on each side, black and white being two obvious choices. One player always places their counters down with one particular side facing up and the other player uses the opposite side. The board is a grid of 64 squares.The game starts with each player taking it in turns to fill the four central squares with playing pieces.After these first four pieces are placed, the player must sandwich their opponent’s pieces between their own colored pieces in a straight line.A line can be vertical or diagonal.Any opponent’s piece that is sandwiched between the player’s new piece and any existing player pieces are flipped over.
