Eddie's Blog Posts
 Look carefully at this board. Here white has one win, and a +2 at that. Also there is one draw. What do you think is the winning move? Scroll down to see the answer...
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Just testing the whole blog thing :)
Before bridge the other day, a fellow player handed me this test, I guess to see how smart I thought I was. I'll type it out here so everyone else can see how smart they think they are :)
"This test does not mea...
Everyone makes mistakes, the key to winning Othello is to take advantage of those your opponent makes. Of course, this is not news, but here's a prime example. This match took place on Kurnik, between Poland's Kamil Lilla and Australia's George Or...
Everyone has to start somewhere. In 1998 I had been playing online for a couple of years, and while I had developed a basic understanding of openings I felt I still had a long way to go. So when I heard about an over-the-board tournament, I figured I wo...
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The F.A.T. opening has become one of the most studied and played openings in the last few years. Fellow OthelloGateway bloggers Ben Seeley and Edmund Yiu played major parts in the study and advancement of this opening, and are known for using it in impo...
In my last article, "High-F.A.T. Diet”, I analyzed a game between Canadian greats Jacky Fu and Tim Krzywonos from the 2004 Canadian Championships. As I mentioned, while Jacky won the first game of their series in a dominating fashion, Tim ended up wi...
Games played by legends such as Hideshi Tamenori or Ben Seeley are bound to be full of brilliant moves, and are always of great interest, and this is even more true for games played between the two of them. Of course, a series of 2-minute games between a...
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