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Blogs

Randy's Blog (7450)
This is Randy Fang's blog. He frequently talks about various aspects of the game.

Goran's Blog (5715)
This is Goran Andersson's blog. He is a very experienced Othello player from Sweden. There are many interesting discussions about Othello.

Dejavoo (12783)
Stan's blog

Sproggle (129)
Jeremy Das's blog- some Othello material

Othello programs

Gunnar's Othello Page (Wzebra) (616)
The best all-around program for the average user, bar none, provided free courtesy of Gunnar Andersson.

Chris' Othello Stuff (8464)
Quite likely the strongest program in the world-certainly it is the strongest one publically available. Not nearly as user friendly as Wzebra, though; but Edmund Yiu's NBrowser helps that a little bit. Provides very good features such as draw avoidance.

Happy End (225)
Beppi Mennozi's sophisticated endgame solitaire program.

Booby Reversi (380)
Directly playable on the site at its lower levels, full version downloadable.

Icare (362)
A small but sweet endgame solitaire program.

Cassio (284)
Stephane Nicolet's program, the Mac equivalent of Wzebra.

Cyrano (382)
Worthy Othello applet. Has a beautiful entrance graphic.

Devastator (6211)
One of the strongest Othello applets online.

Darwersi (204)
Darwinian Reversi- Reversi by genetic algorithm.

Andrea Zinno's Home Page (150)
Andrea Zinno's program. The website has other links and resources, too.

http://www.tournavitis.de/herakles/ (280)
This a great suite of Othello programs- two strong 8x8 programs, and a strong Diamond and 10x10 program.

Virtual Othello (249)
A Russian program, that also plays on GGS as vo

Pointy Stone (173)
A Windows based program

Logistello (418)
The breakthrough program that completely dominated all humans and programs who came before it.

Thor (336)
The files of the primary Othello game database

OthBase (172)
Fabrice Di Meglio's Java database program. Works on many platforms, enables database creation, updates, browsing and searching. Shows statistics about games. Reads XOF, Thor, VOG, Kurnik, GGS games files.

Personal Homepages

MidnigHt's Othello Site (471)
This is Michael Handel's site. It has some very nice game analyses as well as other interesting articles about Othello.

Dodo's Othello & Reversi Page (85)
(This page is in Italian)

Michael Buro's Homepage (112)
Michael Buro, the creator of Logistello, came up with major breakthroughs in Othello program design.

The Wit and Wisdom of Imre Leader (7098)
No Othello here, but if you like math humor, Imre Leader appears to be a veritable fountain of it.

Joel Feinstein's Othello Page (94)

ContessaPlaypen (131)
Judith Diamond's page

Othelloclub (125)
Taejoon Jung's site.

National Associations

Dansk Othello Forbund :: Danish Othello Association (50)

Australian Othello Federation (51)

USOA (139)

Nederlandse Othello Vereniging (24)
(In Dutch)

Swedish Othello Association (41)
(In Swedish)

British Othello Federation (96)

FFO (71)
(In French)

Federazione Italiana Gioco Othello (Reversi) (46)
(In Italian)

Japanese Othello Association (79)
(In Japanese)

Othello Association (Singapore) (44)

Hong Kong Othello Association (55)

Othello Belgium (48)

Othello Club Deutschland (79)
(In German and English)

China Othello Federation (61)

Game Sites

Kurnik (171)
Originally a Polish game site, it is the highest quality free site for Othello that I know of. Has game archives and regular tournaments. The site can be viewed in English. Uses Java applets.

VOG (72)
Regular tournaments, variants, archives, many other features. Free trials for tournaments, but $29.95 per annum for full use of the site.

Yahoo USA (91)
(Need to log into a yahoo account first) Uses Java applet. The starting position is inverted, but other than that it's very nice.

Nethello (142)
(In Japanese) Quality Japanese site.

Blip (85)
(In Swedish) A Swedish game site run by the television channel 4. Some top Nordic players play here. Go to Spela -> Bradspel -> Othello.

MSN Gaming Zone (105)
Popular gaming site.

Spelpunt (49)
(In Dutch) The Dutch site.

Thai Board Games Online (63)
(In Thai)

Chinagames.net (57)
(In Chinese) A Chinese game site for Othello. Has a few weird features but otherwise alright.

Little Golem (36)
A turn base website. (You have one day per move)

It's Your Turn (40)
Another turn base gamesite.

Playsite (64)

TV2 (34)
(In Danish?)

General Resources

Reversi--Wikipedia, the free encylcopedia (121)
The open source wikipedia's page on Othello

Komodo Dragon Cafe (53)
Lee Edwards's virtual hangout

Bluez Othello Links (71)
A lot of links.

Anjar (50)
The international licensor of the trademark "Othello", and creator and a continuing sponsor of the World Othello Championships.

Mattel (37)
Current licensee of Othello in the USA, thus Othello boards are currently made by them. Helped sponsor the 2001 World Othello Championships.

World Othello Championships (103)
The main site for upcoming and past World Othello Championships.

reversi.se (168)
Has a great forum, and has RSS feeds of some blogs and message groups. Games from the Thor database can be viewed online here, and a calendar for upcoming tournaments. Other strategy resources are provided as well.

FDI's Othello Links (64)
A lot of links, and his program "Junior" is available. Stylish program.

Interactive Othello Course (117)
(In Italian) A complete guide to Othello strategies with interactive diagrams.

VOG's Strategy Guide (164)
Introductive strategy guide

Reverse reversi strategy guide (103)
(In French) A basic strategy guide for reverse reversi- least discs wins!

Japanese articles and bulletin board (63)
(In Japanese) Has a lot of resources from a Yahoo Japanese perspective

Japan Othello links (96)
Has a ton of Japan Othello links

Babelfish (39)
Use this to view the foreign language sites. The results are often surprisingly comprehensible.

Message Boards and Forums

World Othello Council of Federations (88)
Where important decisions are (occasionally) made.

British Othello (70)

U.S. Othello message board (90)

Randy Fang's Othello Book discussion (91)
This is a group for discussing Randy's Othello Book. Feedback, comments, and other Othello/Reversi related topics are also welcomed.

GodHello (124)
(In French)

FNGO- Federazione Nazionale Gioco Othello (24)
(In Italian) Mailing list for Italian Othello