the game is always drawn. Now Hiroki Takizawa, a bioinformatician at Preferred Networks, a computing company in Japan, has solved Othello (or Reversi), a game with 10 to the power of 28 positions.

TOKYO (AP) — Goro Hasegawa, the Japanese man credited with creating the Othello board game, has died. He was 83. Hasegawa died after a long illness Monday in his home in Kashiwa, a Tokyo suburb ...

The World Othello Championship began in Mito on Wednesday, bringing the premier competition of the board game back to its birthplace for only the second time. A total of 84 people, aged 9 to 69 ...

TOKYO >> Goro Hasegawa, the Japanese man credited with creating the Othello board game, has died. He was 83. Hasegawa died after a long illness Monday in his home in Kashiwa, a Tokyo suburb ...