Books

From The Othello Wiki Book Project

The books about the Othello-Reversi game.


Books Year Authors Language Comments

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How to win at Othello

1974

Goro Hasegawa and Maxine Brady

This is the first book ever writen by the "creator" of the game.
He wrote many other books(about 8) after this one.

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A discovery of reversals

1980

Hiroshi Inoue

The author is the world champion 1977 and 1979.

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The key to othello.

1978-1981

John Ball & John R. Parker

J.R.Parker UK Champion 1981, Publisher J.A.Ball & Co.

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Othello

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No information available about this book.

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Othello

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No information available about this book.

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Othello

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No information available about this book.

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Othello

1983

Kunihiko Tanida

The author is the world champion 1982.

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Othello-reversi

1983

François Pingaud

This book was the first french book, its author was the first national champion.

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A quick illustration Othello
a knack for winning it

1986

Kunihiko Tanida

The author is the world champion 1982.

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Othello: brief & basic

1987 and reedited in 1990

Ted Landau

The theoretical concepts inside this initiation book are still available nowadays,
and it is a good start for the players wanting to improve their level.
Ted Landau made it available for download.
Download Othello: brief & basic (http://www.tedlandau.com/files/Othello-B%26B.pdf)

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Othello

1987

Preface: Ennio Peres
Augusto Brusca, Alessandro Maccheroni and Luigi Puzzo

This book was the first italian book.

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Othello

1988

Kunihiko Tanida

The author is the world champion 1982.

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Othello par l'exemple

1989

Bintsa Andriani
Elie Cali
Bernard Daunas
Philippe Juhem
Emmanuel Lazard
Jean Manuel Mascort
Takeshi Murakami
Didier Piau
Jean François Puget
Paul Ralle

After the 1988 WOC played in Paris, some of the top
french players decided to write a book mainly analysing
48 interesting games played during this tournament.

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Othello

1990

Goro Hasegawa

No information available about this book.

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Othello

1993

Goro Hasegawa

No information available about this book.

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Othello

1995

Goro Hasegawa

No information available about this book.

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Othello

1997

Emmanuel Lazard, Marc Tastet

Initiation book about the othello game.

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History of Othello

2005

Goro Hasegawa

History of the game with many pictures about past tournaments and japanese champions.

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Othello aesthetics

2005

Kazuhiro Sakaguchi

The author is the Meijin 1995 and 2000.

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Profound learning

2005

Kwansoo Kim

This book was the first korean book.

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Othello

2005

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The unknown author is from Taiwan.

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Out of opening

2008

Kwangwook Lee

This book was the second korean book.

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Othello school

2008

Goro Hasegawa

No information available about this book.

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2009

Tetsuya Nakajima

The author is Tetsuya Nakajima, Meijin 1997, 1998, 2006.

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2009

Erwin Tolano

Beware: This book was listed here by it's author, and is certainly NOT a #1 best seller. Much of it's content has been copied directly from wikipedia. The author claims it's about solving 4x4, 6x6, and 8x8 othello and interesting facts. Available for free at google books.

Othello: from beginner to master (http://othello.federation.free.fr/livres/beginner-Randy-Fang.pdf)

2003

Randy Fang

Initiation for total beginners.
This is not a real book but an "electronic book" in pdf format.
You can freely download it.

Nero Su Bianco

2004-->today

The Italian federation

The periodic bulletin of the Italian Othello Federation.
These are "electronic books" in pdf format.
You can freely download the archives.
http://www.fngo.it/shownews.asp?id=68

Othello - A minute to learn... a lifetime to master (http://othellogateway.com/rose/book.pdf)

2006

Brian Rose

The author is a past world champion.
This is not a real book but an "electronic book" in pdf format.
You can freely download it.

Early days bibliography

Several articles and bibliography.