![]() ![]() There are some interesting strategies that can be played in Othello, however, the one I found most intriguing was that an experienced player, when teaching/playing with a less experienced player, can add a handicap into the game. ![]() This implies that the players are evenly matched. If you have exactly the same number of pieces showing your colour on the board (32), “perfect play” is reached. The player with the highest number of their colour showing wins. Once all the pieces have been played, each player counts how many of their colour is on the board. If you cannot place a piece anywhere that allows you to take, or flip, your opponents pieces, you forfeit your turn and your opponent continues to place pieces until a move becomes available to you. there are occasions when you can place a piece that completes two or more lines, this means you can flip every piece of the other colour that is on a line you’ve just created. To take pieces you must be able to trap their pieces between two of your own on a horizontal, vertical or diagonal line, doing this means that you flip all the pieces on that line to your colour. When placing pieces you must be able to “take” the other players pieces. In Othello players take it in turns to place pieces and black always moves first. For those who have an interest in Shakespeare, the similarities continue – reread Othello and see how many you can find! There is also the conflict between black Othello and Desdemona who is white to be considered. ![]() I’ve put a few in here Iago makes a direct reference to how he is “two faced” in the play, which accounts for the double-sided black-and-white playing pieces which are continually flipped throughout the game. Othello was chosen as a name for many reasons – all of them deriving from Shakespeare’s play.
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