How to win at Othello almost every time!

This video gives you strategy tips for how to consistently win at Othello. I walk through myself playing a game and give you information on what I am thinking at every point. If you want me to analyze another specific board game, let me know. In addition check out my other videos on game theory.

***Note: I found that these strategies work well against casual players. For more advanced players some of the comments on edge play do not work in competitive matches. If you want to play competitively I recommend you google the book "Brian Rose Othello A min to learn, a lifetime to master". Credit to youtube user vecspace for making this suggestion.

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[flumfybud]

" It's good to have the center 4x4 area"
" It's good to have the walls"
me - "That's like, 70% of the so no shit"

[agentblammo]

Glad I scrolled down to the comments right away.

[kevinruby]

Not particularly solid strategic advice here. Been playing Othello for over 25 years, and I can safely say that owning the walls early on is not always a priority. Every game is contextually driven Also, that move at about 3:40 is shockingly awful in an attempt to own a corner (c3, not b2). Read up on videos by Ben Seeley or Brian Rose's manual (available as a downloadable .pdf file).

That said, I appreciate your enthusiasm for the game, and wish you well in improving your skill set.

[DaleC]

How to win Othello everytime: play this guy! :-)

[Tcj]

"I really want this corner."
*Takes X and both Cs*

[jancg]

Please don't make any more videos until you've actually learned something about a game. Your first advice (play small) was correct. Otherwise the rest of the video was horribly bad!

[emiliarain]

i introduced othello to a friend and he has beaten me almost every time. now its war and im studying yt videos how to beat him.

[bobbobbgarte]

As a 2500 elo player, i advise people to not watch this video

[aiden]

He literally said the best way to win is to get control of the center area and the walls and the corner which means the best way to wjn is to control the entire board like wtf

[Jald]

I don't know about others but when I played it first time I lost by 20 points margin but after seeing your video, I defeated the opponent by 55-9 as I was able to capture walls and sides.

[diegoarthur]

Why did I watch all the video to read the comments later?

[carolmiller]

I started playing Othello, recently. Your videos are amazing.

[craigeillison]

please remove this video, it is teaching people wrong strategy.

[douggy]

Despite the rough comments all over the video, I found your estrategy pretty helpful. Thank you for the video.

[kgl]

actually if you play like this with a professional you'll definitely lose because, there are some dangerous places in the board that if you make your move at them you'll lose the corners and at the same time you'll lose the game

[chasy]

I play othellogame .
And I think you aren’t good at it.

[BRIrwin]

The strategy in this video is very simplistic and will not, in any way, provide someone with the knowledge to defeat an experienced othello player. The computer game you are playing against is obviously not very good.

[antoniodittman]

at 5:02 you didnt defend the top left corner at all and only because the computer is dumb as hell, didnt lose the entire left wall.

[Sbanger]

Keith Galli ... Thanks for posting my friend. I don't know much about the strategy of this game, but just decided to try it out on my PS2 Boardgames Collection so decided to get some insight on the games strategies. I don't care about what your haters say in the comments below, because your explanation of the strategy makes a lot of sense to me ... I'm gonna try it out against my PS2 and I think it'll work like a charm.

[Fenrir]

He's just playing the game and telling us his thought process, this is NO strategy video...