Etiquette

From The Othello Wiki Book Project

Good Habits

  • Respect your opponent's ability
  • Thanking your opponent after the game
  • Playing a game until the end - 1 disk is better than 0 disks, and unlike chess the game will end soon.
  • It is better to dip your fingers in the coffee than to try to drink the discs.


Bad Habits

  • Naming all your excuses for losing
  • Taking back a move
  • Dangling a disc above the board while thinking
  • Equating Othello skill with intelligence
  • Telling your opponent that she/he played very well while she/he only got 2 discs
  • Compare Othello with chess
  • Get angry
  • Asking someone in the audience the help flipping if your flag is likely to fall
  • Answer the crappy play with diabolic laughter
  • Hitting your opponent on the head with a wooden stick is vulgar style.
  • Singing when playing
  • Throwing the board against the wall denting the wall and the board prior to uppercutting your opponent
  • Accidently getting a disc stuck up your nose and then having to get it removed in the emergency room
  • Tapping with your feet on the ground
  • Constantly ticking with your stone on the table
  • Pretending you don't care about your own game and go walking around and spectate other games
  • Throwing a stone up and catch it, over and over again.
  • Replaying the opening of your own game with the person next to you, using the table and the remaining discs.
  • Sighing so heavily that your opponent can smell what you had for lunch
  • Commenting on your match very loudly as soon as it's finished, regardless of whether the other matches are finished
  • Putting the discs to your mouth while planning your next move
  • Dressing like a $50 hooker in order to distract your opponents


Bad internet habits:

  • Communicating with idiotic abbreviations
  • Rating paranoia
  • Aborting the game / Resigning repeatedly
  • Playing online more than 6 hours per day (if in question about this, ask your family)
  • Using Zebra or other software to find the moves for you
  • Accusing anyone who knows your opening further than 7 moves of using Zebra
  • Registering multiple nicks