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Introduction to strategy

The rules stipulate that the winner of an Othello games is the player who has the most discs of his colour at the end of the game. Newcomers to the game too often have the tendancy to transform this long-term objective into a short-term tactic: they try to have the most discs at each stage of the game. To do this, they play at each move the move which turns the greatest number of discs possible. This is called the maximum disc strategy. Fortunately for the game's interest, after several games against an experienced player, one clearly sees that this strategy is not good, as we will try to demonstrate with an example.