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THE OTHELLO GAME
1. Introduction
Othello is a two player strategy game. Othello is player on an 8 x 8 square board, one taking white
while the other taking black. The object of Othello is to flip as many of your opponents discs to your
color as possible without opponent flipping your discs.
2. The Rules
The initial configuration, before the game starts, is:
Black starts playing first. Each player puts one disc on the board at each turn, unless:either no one
can move, or one player cannot move, and then the other player can play again. The game ends
when no plaer can move, and the one who has the most discs of his own colors has won.
Now how to put a disc on the board? The idea is one can put a disc of his own color at a square, if
and only if there is at least one disc of the opposite color immediately surrounding it, and at the
extension of this line there is a disc of his own color. For example, at the beginning of the game,
black can play at the following squares marked with an X:
