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Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 22:15:12 11/14/99

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On November 14, 1999 at 18:15:47, Bella Freud wrote:

>>I have no special problems with Othello related posts here from time to time.
>>But I think Othello and chess have big conceptual differences.
>>
>>Chess is closer to checkers than to Othello. I think that, somehow, chess is
>>more suited to the human brain than Othello/Reversi is.
>>
>
>Why?

I think the incessant flipping of discs as one looks ahead is difficult to keep
track of well.  Of course, I wasn't born understanding knight forks either, but
it seems to me that visualization of the board during look-ahead would be much
tougher in Othello than in Chess.

Dave



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