reversi

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A strategy game for two players, areas of the board being captured by surrounding rows of the opponent's pieces with one's own.

The card game reversis.

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Original version The game Reversi was invented in 1883 by either of two Englishmen (each claiming the other a fraud), Lewis Waterman Note: He was not the Lewis Waterman who patented the Waterman fountain pen in 1884. Source: Internet

It is also possible to play variants of Reversi and Othello wherein the second player's second move may or must flip one of the opposite-colored disks (as variants closest to the normal games). Source: Internet

Openings For relatively inexperienced players the opening (early) part of a game of Reversi is generally not very easy to make sense of. Source: Internet

Reversi was most recently marketed by Mattel under the trademark Othello. Source: Internet

Strategic elements Strategic concepts in Reversi include openings (and home preparation), corners, mobility, edge play, parity, end-game play and looking ahead. Source: Internet

The historical version of Reversi starts with an empty board, and the first two moves by each player are in the four central squares of the board. Source: Internet

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