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Play tournaments at eOthello!
19 January 2021Dear Othello players, This year for the first time in eOthello site we have announced a tournament Calendar for the next season which include fixed dates and variants[..]
WOF Annual Meeting 2020 Minutes
9 November 2020World Othello Federation Annual Meeting 2020 7 November 2020 The Minutes 1. Opening of the Annual Meeting 2020 2. Election of the Annual Meeting[..]
WOF Annual Meeting has elected a new president
7 November 2020The World Othello Federation annual meeting was held online 7th November. WOF has 66 WOF members. 66% of the members joined the online meeting and voted for the new council and the new WOF[..]
EPISODE 21 - Endgame Techniques part 1
16 October 2020Alex Koh is a prominent player of the Othello community who started playing in 2008. He has started a YouTube channel called Othello Academy, which is aimed at teaching players of[..]
Math’s clubs tournament in Brazil
12 October 2020Teacher wins online Othello´s tournament between Math’s clubs of Criciúma. Othello´s matches started end of July. For seven weeks, a board of eight columns and[..]
European Othello Grand Prix 2020 postponed
11 September 2020W.O.F. European Confederation have decided to postpone the EGP 2020 until 2021. Information will be sent out to all WOF European federations shortly about EGP 2020 and 2021. The[..]
2020 China National Othello Championship
11 September 20202020 CNOC (China National Othello Championship) was held at the museum in southwest Beijing on September 6, 2020. 冠军 Champion:李畅/Li Chang 亚军[..]
App review(IOS): KifuBox
6 September 2020KifuBox review KifuBox is a multipurpose software with a lot of functionality included in the base version. You can save your own games for study or you can study predefined openings[..]
Swedish Online Othello championship
5 September 202014 players participated in the Swedish Championships in Othello online on the 5th of September 2020. We had guest players visiting from Australia and India. Mathew Vinar and Roy[..]
Kanye West twitter about Othello
28 August 2020The artist Kanye West is, apparently, a huge fan of the game Othello. He mention that Othello is his favourite game in all capital letters on his Twitter! As indicated by this post on[..]
"Reversi" versus Othello
2 August 2020Why do I sometimes see Othello called “Reversi”? By Ben Seeley Here’s the long answer: Othello and Reversi are not actually the same game, but Othello has been[..]
Listen to Kimber Clydes podcast!
2 August 2020Othello with KimberClyde is a great Othello podcast about Othello. You will find the Othello with KimberClyde there you find your podcasts. Podbean is one of the places you can find[..]
Pakistan Online Championship & interview
1 August 2020First Pakistan Online Othello Championship The first Pakistan Online Othello championship was played on 26th July, 2020. There were 32 brave participants in teams of 1-2 players[..]
The American online Othello tournament
15 July 2020The American online Othello tournament (August 2020) The American online Othello tournament coming in August, just a few weeks away, promises to become the biggest online[..]
African 1st Online tournament
11 July 2020The 1st African Online Othello tournament was organized in June month. The five round swiss tournament had from start 16 players from South Africa, Egypt, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Tunisia[..]
Campeonato Argentino 2020
10 July 2020Othello is a game to play over the board. Sadly, this year has shocked our lives all around the world. After the expierence of organizing the Panamerican on line Othello Championship,[..]
Information about W.O.C. 2020
10 July 2020Dear Othello community! We are sad to inform you that the World Othello Championship 2020 will be cancelled! The main reason for this decision is the ongoing Corona[..]
Akihiro Takahashi
8 July 2020When we decided to do an interview with Akihiro Takahasi we realized that not only are we doing an interview with a 13 year old Japanese player. We are doing an interview with one of[..]
Kids - the future of Othello
7 July 2020Othello is a fantastic game; everyone can play it. It does'nt matter who you are. where you live or how old you are. In the World Othello Championship we have players between 7 and up[..]
Analyze: Saio
6 July 2020[..]
My story: Daniel Turunen
6 July 2020Hereby WOF Othello News presents one of our new writers & debaters! Daniel Turunen is one of the strongest swedish players and has been playing since the early 2000´s! He started[..]
Review: eOthello
4 June 2020Do you play Othello online? On your computer or on your smartphone? Have you noticed that there are many Othello apps, and most of them are simple hacks with low-level programs to play[..]
European Othello Championship 2020, Rome
4 June 2020Register to play in the European Championship 2020 The first European Othello Championship was held already 1977. It was a tournament organized by Anjar and was open only for players[..]
Interview with Luke Plowman
6 April 2020In Tokyo, and WOC 2019, we did an Interview with Luke Plowman [Great Britain] after his first round win. Since then Luke have been very active to play online. Because Luke is a player[..]
PAOOC 2020
6 April 2020The Pan American Othello championship will be held online due to recent circumstances! There are 50 participating players from 9 different countries, including USA, Canada, Mexico,[..]
WOF information about events (Corona)
16 March 2020Updated 2020-04-06. The World Othello Federation council recommend all W.O.F. members to follow all local authorities demands and[..]
World Othello Championship Live-streaming
9 October 2019WORLD OTHELLO CHAMPIONSHIP 2019 LIVE!! https://youtube.com/worldothello! Three games live each round! In English, Japanese, Swedish, Dutch, France and other too! See interviews and[..]
See WOC 2019 standings
9 October 2019See photos from WOC 2019
9 October 2019WOC 2019 - relocated to Tokyo!
13 September 2019News from World Othello Federation World Othello Championship 2019 WOC 2019 is relocated to Tokyo, Japan 8th -11th October, 2019 Because of the cancellation of WOC 2019 in Hong Kong,[..]
New player record?
31 July 2019The 43rd World Othello Championship is almost here! With almost 30 nations participating we are to set a new world record in more than one way! Today, at the deadline of registration to WOC[..]
Interview with Masaki Wada
11 July 2019This is an interview with Masaki Wada, a young Othelloplayer from Japan. Masaki Wada was the first Youth World Champion, Mito 2016. There he won the final against Arthur Juigner from[..]
Interview with Keisuke Fukuchi
20 June 2019We are pretty sure that everyone notified that Keisuke Fukuchi won the WOC 2018. We got many wishes to do an interview with Keisuke. He is the, so far, youngest World Champion. Kunihiko[..]
Thailand Othello Championship 2019
31 March 2019Piyanat Aunchele is the Thailand Othello Champion 2019. 2018 he met Woramet Hempijit. This year they met in the semifinal and Aunchele won the game. Anon Hongthong[..]
Arthur Juigner Swiss champion 2019
30 March 2019Switzerland championship was from the start a fight between Arthur Juigner and Michele Borassi who should be the Swiss Champion. It was four players in the championship, so they played a[..]
European GP 2019 - Ghent
24 March 2019Takuji Kashiwabara, France, is back as winner in an EGP tournament. Takuji lost one game in the qualification rounds against Jan de Graaf, the Netherlands. It was a tight fight about[..]
40th Meijin 2019
24 March 2019The 40th Meijin was held 23th-24th March as tradition. Over 300 players was registered to the maintourney. 216 came, and that is a great number too! This year it was also foreign players.[..]
1st Iranian Othello Champion - Hasan Rostamipur
23 February 2019Othello is a boardgame who being more and more popular. New players find the game online, then they start to play at real Othello board. That what was happen in Iran. Iranian Othello[..]
World Othello Championship 2019
13 February 2019The 43th World Othello Championship 2019 will be held in Hong Kong. The W.O.C. dates is 8th to 11th October. The venue will be Youth Square. W.O.C. 2019 is organized by World Othello[..]
Eleven-year-old Keisuke Fukuchi new ruling world champion!
2 December 2018We have a new Othello World Champion! Keisuke Fukuchi. He is the youngest world champion, ever. Kunihiko Tanida was fifteen when he won in Stockholm 1982 but Keisuke Fukuchi is eleven[..]
Interview: Momona Kitamura, north Tokyo youth championship winner! 北村桃奈ちゃんにインタビュー
13 November 2018This is an interview with Momona Kitamura, the North Tokyo Youth Championship 2018 champion. Momona qualified for the Japan Youth Championship 2018. A tournament Keisuke Fukuchi won, and[..]
Misa Sugawara defended her WOC title
17 October 2018Misa Sugawara defended her WOC title. Misa was the fourth female player after the swiss-tournament. In semifinal she played against Yoko Sano, USA, and won with 51-13. In the other[..]
Kfar-Saba International
11 August 2018Emmanuel Lazard came on vacation to Israel. We decided not to miss our chance and organized August, 10 a small, but international round-robin tournament. Emmanuel kindly agreed to[..]
Keisuke Fukuchi Japan Othello Youth Champion 2018
5 August 2018The 11 year old Keisuke Fukuchi won the Japan Othello Youth Championship 2018. Fukuchi played the youth final also 2016 and 2017, but lost two close games. This year Fukuchi have[..]
Events which made Othello more well-known! Part 1
15 July 2018This is the first of five articles about Othello events. Othello is one of the most well-known mind sports games in the world. To make the game more well-known and popular, it is a good[..]
World Othello Championship 2018
12 July 2018Swiss Championship 2018 07/07/2018 in Geneva : Arthur Juigner wins !
11 July 2018Despite 4 last minute withdrawals reducing the number of players to 6, the 2018 Swiss Othello Championship has brought together very good level players, with our 2 french neighbours and[..]
Invitation to Moscow EGP 2018
28 June 2018Argentina Championship 2018
25 June 2018It was eight players who attended to the 2018 Argentina Othello Championship. The champion this year is Marcelo Lisnovsky. This is the second time Marcelo win the Argentina[..]
Beijing Othello Open 2018
24 June 2018It was ten players who attended to the Beijing Othello open. See games from the tourney at Live Othello Champion: Takashi Yamakawa 2nd Place: ZHAO Jing Tommy Zhao 3rd[..]
Israeli National 2018
24 June 2018Congratulations to Ilya, Andrey and Michael! 12 players players attended to the Israeli Othello National, including 6 kids. There has not been a change in generations yet, but[..]
Swedish Othello Championship 2018
16 June 2018It was 14th players who attended to the Swedish championship 2018. It was held in Uppsala. Oscar Eklund won his fourth title, and his third in a row title. Christopher Andersson did a great[..]
National championships 2018
5 June 2018The following national championships have been played in 2018: Country Winner # Champion since Argentina Marcelo[..]
Othello t-shirts available at Uniqlo
19 May 2018Available in white and in green. (The green shirt may not be available outside of Asia). Uniqlo is one of the largest clothes stores in Japan. They are now[..]
Thailand Othello Championship 2018
23 April 2018Piyanat Aunchele won the Thailand Othello Championship 2018. In the final game he defeated Woramet Hempijit with 2-0. Anon Hongtong won the game about third prize against Thammatorn[..]
Othello events - Italy and Sweden 21st April
23 April 2018What to do when it is a sunny day, nice weather and you want to be outside? Play Othello of course! Or arrange an Othello events close to there you live? It is a great way to make Othello[..]
Naoki Shimizu - the 19th Meijin
19 April 2018This year the 39th Meijin-sen was played in Kobe. 200 players attended to play in one of the worlds largest, and most compitive tournament in the world. Meijin is an[..]
Midnight Diners - a cute Othello story
19 April 2018It was a Monday night. I was tired. No desire to do anything but lie on the couch, lift my feet on the sofa, turn on the tv and just relax. Saw that Netflix released a Japanese television[..]
Matthias Berg wins European Grand Prix Warsaw
27 March 2018In the weekend of March 17 and 18 no less than 12 local heroes and 8 foreigners gathered in Warsaw for the second tournament of the European Grand Prix 2018. The Polish capital was the[..]
Meijin 2018, Youth and Female classes
17 March 2018The 39th Meijin-sen was played this weekend in Kobe, Japan. On Saturday, the junior classes and the ladies played their classes as usual. Over 120 juniors met and made up about the three[..]
This weekend: Meijin-sen 2018
16 March 2018The 39th Meijin-sen will be held in Kobe this weekend.The arrangeurs in the Japan Othello Association, tells to Othello News that it probably will be a new record for number of[..]
World Othello Championship 2018
15 March 2018The World Othello Federations W.O.C. committe remind all federations that registration to W.O.C. 2018 shall be WOF available no later than July 31st, 2018. The WOC 2018 website will[..]
The 34th Nordic Championship 2018
8 March 2018Niklas Wettergren won the 34th Nordic Othello Championship 2018! He is the 17th champion since the start 1985. The Nordic Championship is one of the oldest tournaments in the world. It was[..]
Indaiatuba wins Othello Paulista Championship by Teams
5 March 2018Disputed on March 03 at the Clube da Melhor Idade, the Othello Paulista Team Championship was attended by 15 teams (45 players). The champion team was Zen Indaiatuba formed by Mitsuru[..]
Review: Steam Othello by BlueLine game studios
28 February 2018The application comes with four different game modes. Online & local multiplayer, vs AI and the ability to play against yourself in the mode called pass & play. Signing up for[..]
Cambridge EGP 2018
21 February 2018It was Saturday 17th March, a normal February day. The sun was shining across the city, which was named Cambridge. The ancient walls of Trinity College brightened up and gave us a[..]
2nd Japan v/s Korea Othello team competition
20 February 2018The second team competition between Korea Othello Association and Japan Othello Association will be held 25th March. You can follow the games at Live Othello. 2017 the[..]
Interview with Ben Seeley
9 February 2018Here is an interview with Ben Seeley. Ben Seeley was World Champion 2003 and 2004. The interview is done by Spinmaster, who sell Othello in USA. As a part of their promotion of Othello in[..]
Facebook Othello app review
7 February 2018A review of the Facebook Othello app, developed by G-MODE corp! It have been over 800.000 games played at the Othello app. Is this maybe the largest Othello online app in the world? How[..]
Ricardo Brandão Pinto won de Othello Cidade de São Paulo
5 February 2018Ricardo Brandão Pinto was the champion of the Tournament of Othello City of São Paulo, The tournament was played in the famous Loja. With the presence of 24 players this was[..]
Albert Kortendijk wins Gouda Open
4 February 2018The winner of the 88th Dutch Othello open was Albert Kortendijk and the second prize went to Nicky van den Biggelaar. Jiska Helmes had won the best achievement cup and the second best[..]
Niklas Wettergren wins Sandsborgs Open, Sweden
27 January 2018Sandsborgs Open was a nice and exciting competition. 16 players participated; They came from Borås, Linköping. Gothenburg, Gävle and Stockholm. It was an exciting[..]
Alex Koh Bo Chao won 18th Singapore Open
22 January 2018It was 18 players who turned up to the 18th Singapore Open. Three new players turned up. Also some inactive player.s returned to playing. However, once the pairings got going, it[..]
Ødegård won Oslo Open
21 January 2018Martin Ødegård was unbeaten in the tournament Oslo Open 2018. Only Knut Bjarte Haus managed to score against Martin when he scored a draw in round 3. It was a fight between[..]
2nd Wangjung Wang, South Korea
15 January 2018The second King of the King tournament was played in South Korea. It was 15 players in the tournament. It was a tournament that was exciting in to the final round. Dongkwon[..]
Takuji Kashiwabara wins the IDF1 tournament
14 January 2018Takuji Kashiwabara wins the 2018 edition of the IDF1 tournament that took place on January 13th in Paris. 11 players made the trip for this first Parisian Othello[..]
Áshőķ Chőừdháŕý wins the Indian Othello Championship 2017
3 January 2018Indian Othello Federation is pleased to announce the final game results of IOC 2017 as below: • Áshőķ Chőừdháŕý – Winner • Amar Roy[..]
Women World Othello Champion 2017
3 November 2017Misa Sugawara is the female World Othello Champion 2017. The semifinal against Patcharaport Tana, Thailand she won with 39-25. Jiska Helmes, Netherlands won with 37-27 against Charinee[..]
Japan Othello broadcast WOC 2017 live
27 October 2017The Japan Othello Association will broadcast the WOC 2017 at their YouTube-channel. The YouTuber Gohan will lead the show. Game commentators is the Othello players Nobuaki Mitsuya and[..]
Thirty-six hours live Othello from WOC 2017
20 October 2017World Othello Federation is making a major effort on WOC 2017. Over thirty hours live broadcast with comments from experienced Othello players. Guy Plowman will lead Live Othello Studio,[..]
Konstantin Tsykin wins St. Petersburg Open
14 October 2017October 14, 2017 the Russia Othello federation hosted an Othello tournament in St. Petersburg. The tournament was attended by players from Moscow, St. Petersburg and[..]
The World Othello Championship 2017 video is online!
2 October 2017It is one month until the World Othello Championship 2017 will start in Ghent, Belgium. At the World Othello Federation YouTube-channel you will be able to see many Othello games[..]
A letter from the W.O.F. president.
1 October 2017When you read this article, you have already been introduced to the new homepage for World Othello Federation (WOF). If you have played Othello for a while, this is probably not the first[..]
Who will be the World Champion 2017?
30 September 2017Who will be the World Othello Champion 2017? That we will know 3rd November! Will it be someone who never have been World Champion before? Will Yusuke Takanashi take his 5th W.O.C.[..]
Oleksandr Babichev wins Ukraine Othello Championship 2017
20 May 2017Location: Kharkiv, Ukraine Date: May 20th Link: LiveOthello On May 20 the first Ukrainian Othello Championship was held in Kharkiv. The[..]