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Forward
You’re probably reading this book because you want to learn how to play Othello™* well. Maybe you’ve just learned the game or maybe you don’t know it at all. My goal is to speed up the process to mastery by stepping you through many of the lessons that every master level player has learned through hard work and a lot of practice. I’ll start off at the most basic level and progress from basic principles to some of the more flexible principles and exceptions that Master level players apply in championship level play.
In essence, what I’m trying to do is write the Othello equivalent of Nimzovich’s My System (a chess book). At the current time, there is no book in the Othello world to form the basis for discussion and analysis of games. Most master level discussions in the US occur over a real board at infrequent tournaments and I’ve tried to present as much of the terminology as possible. By no means is all the information complete and it’s only as accurate as myself and the people I’ve consulted while writing the material. Just like My System has done in chess – this book is meant to provide a basis for analytical discussion as well as revisions and exceptions to the theories presented.
I’d also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who is involved in the Othello community for their support. I’d particularly like to thank Gunnar Anderson for making WZebra and its toolset for making the images in this document freely available.
Finally, many deserved thanks go out to my two editors and good friends: Amanda Jones (writing style and beginner level feedback) and Edmund Yiu (technical and master level feedback).
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