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The 45th edition of the Italian Othello Championships took place at the “Ludico Game” pub, the new home of Othello in Rome, on the weekend of September 9-10. This year’s[..]

When you decide to join an Othello EGP in Paris, you typically know what to expect. Two days in the city center, surrounded by the lively dynamism of a city that never stops. But most of[..]

Jun Miyazaki, an experienced Othello player and an old and good friend of mine, has lived in China for some years.  He has many Chinese friends, of whom many are Othello players! He[..]

For the 40th time in history players gathered to compete and crown a Belgian champion. Ghent was to place to be and 27 players registered on this sunny Sunday morning. 23 players actually[..]

128 players, from age 6 to 12, met up in Tokyo to play the OSG final. OSG means Elementary school Grand Prix. There were online qualification tournaments all spring, and 128 players[..]

The first World Othello Championship-series have been held. Six confederation champions are qualified for the 45th World Othello Championship in Rome, Italy. 214 players from 28[..]

The Ivorian Othello Federation is organizing the National Othello Cup called the Othello Grand Prix of the 2nd Chance School, on Wednesday August 09, 2023, from 09:00 a.m. in[..]

An Othello party took place at the Club Estudiantil Porteño in Argentina. 30 players participated (record for Argentina). 6 juniors, 8 debutants, 10 women, 5 players from other South[..]

The West Asia Othello Championship 2023 was held in Jamnagar, India on the 15th and 16th July. Players from India, Pakistan, Iran, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka planned to join the[..]

On behalf of the Canadian Othello Association (COA), and the North America Othello Confederation (NAOC), I wish to express our sincere gratitude and appreciation to Leslie Cagley and Greg[..]

  Indian Othello championship 2023 was held in beautiful city located in western India called Jamnagar during 13th and 14th July. Total 10 players participated. Defending winner[..]

1st Austria Othello championship was held in Vienna, on 8th June. This tournament is the first Othello tournament in Austria in entire Othello history. This[..]

Asia Pacific Othello Championship (APOC) 2023 has successfully concluded on June 25. There was a total of 114 players participating in the APOC, and by nation it breaks down like this :[..]

The first Asia-Pacific Othello Championship will be held this weekend in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Mongolia is maybe not the most well known Othello country in the world, but that is now about[..]

Jörg Gärtner passed away on Thursday, May 18, 2023. Jörg who climbed as a hobby and professionally was rock climbing with his friends when he started to feel dizzy and[..]

40 years ago, 17 players joined the first Othello tournament in Argentina. In 2023, 4 of those players played again in Buenos Aires the TORNEO 40 ANIVERSARIO. The world is changing, and[..]

The first confederation championship has been played. The European Othello Championship. The winner, and the first player to qualify for the World Othello Championship[..]

Kanto Shakaijin Championship, Kanto Ladies Meijin-sen, and Kanto Students Meijin-sen were held at Azabu Hight School, Tokyo, on 6th May.  Takeshi Hasegawa finished 1st in the[..]

It was a cold and wet day in Melbourne but the terrible weather didn’t hamper any passion and love of Othello in the Sunday morning.   Today we hosted our inaugural Othello[..]

We all have a dream to become better Othello players. Maybe not all of us have the dream to be the World Champion, but we are all eager to become better players, to feel that we are[..]

It was a chilly spring weekend in Helsinki, Finland. The date was 29th and 30th April. Players from 15 countries gathered in windy and rainy Finland. Many of those[..]

This year we had the record number of 18 players attending the Australian Nationals at St Kilda Town Hall, on April 15th. On top of the local Melbourne players, interstate players from[..]

The World Othello Federation has made some changes to the World Othello Championship rules. The WOF started the WOC-Series, which includes the World Othello Championship, the Youth[..]

It's Saturday morning, and the second installment of the European Grand Prix 2023 is about to start. The atmosphere is pretty exciting. All players arrived at the venue quite early,[..]

The 43rd Meijin was held on the 18th & 19th March 2023 and included 137 participants. The Meijin Open Division was won by the 2017 All-Japan champion Seiya Kurita.  Kurita won[..]

"Turkey Othello", the Turkish Othello players association have started up Othello in schools! In Antalaya they organised "The Turkish Mindsport" a meet-up where they[..]

The Cambridge European Grand Prix Tournament 2023 The 18th and 19th February saw the welcome return of the European Grand Prix at the Cambridge EGP at the idyllic Trinity College,[..]

The first open Othello tournament since 2020 was held in Ulaanbaatar. Due to the pandemic it was not possible to hold any tournaments for the last few years. A total of 112 players, divided[..]

The World Othello Federation (WOF), along with other mind sports organsations*, follows the recommendations from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on international political[..]

We are happy to inform you that the European Othello Championship 2023 will be held in Helsinki, Finland April 29th to 30th 2023. Find more information and how to[..]

The WOF Head council meeting November 25th. WOF Annual Confederations. The WOF Confederations annual meetings are between November 24th to 30th. There are now six Othello[..]

On November 12, the 2022 Chinese Othello Open - Broadway Cup has been concluded successfully concluded at the international centre of the China Hangzhou chess club, and there were about 50[..]

The 24th World Champion is Mr. Kento Urano from Tokyo, Japan. Kento is 23 years old, and a student of Tokyo university. He started to play Othello tournaments in 2012 and has played[..]

We congratulate Jason Helgeson who was the outstanding Fantasy Othello 2022 World Champion! He selected a team which received the most points. Jason is an American Othello[..]

The World Othello federation and WOF Confederations annual meetings have got a new date. WOF Confederations annual mmeetings will be latest November 27th. The WOF annual meeting will be[..]

At the Kuritai festival in Constanta the 1st Romanian Othello tournament was organized.  At the festival first day it was open for all to come and try Othello. The second day the[..]

The 17th Spanish Othello Championship 2022 was held in Barcelona. The tournament was held as an 7 rounds Round-Robin. Mario Madrona won all his games in the round robin. It was a close[..]

Indian Othello Championship 2022 was organized by the Indian Association of Othello, at Jamnagar, Gujarat under the sponsorship of Balark. Ten players participated in the championship from[..]

I got hooked on the game when I was 16.  Since then my dream had always been “World Othello Champion.”  The dream came true when I was 30.  At 57 I am stilled[..]

Othello glossary in Japanese, English, and Chinese- When I was around 20 years old, I wrote a small article titled "Let's enjoy Othello in English" and contributed it[..]

La Fédération Ivoirienne d'Othello organise la Coupe EBUR_Café d'Othello de Côte d'Ivoire. 30 joueurs d'Othello ( Othellistes) dont les 5[..]

33 nations, 114 players are registered for WOC 2022! Here is the list of the granted registered nations August 1st. It may be added some nations coming weeks who not have been granted[..]

April-June 2000 Japan Quarterly Othello: Game of the Century By Murakami Takeshi Millions on this globe devote much of their lives to playing chess, shogi or go, fascinated by[..]

The 3rd Pakistan Othello Championship was held in Naran. 34 players came to play. The Championship was held at the Pakistan Intellectuel games meeting.  The championship was organized[..]

The Argentina Othello Championship was held July 23th.    # Name Points Discs 1 Leandro[..]

Imre Leader won the British Othello Championship 2022.  It was 18 player who met up in Cambridge. The final was between Imre Leader and David Beck. Imre won the one game final with[..]

Kanto Shakaijin Championship, Kanto Ladies Meijin-sen, Kanto Students Meijin-sen The above three tournaments, which had been competed every year for more than 30 years, was[..]

The last WOC qualification tournament for Japan was held July 10th. 70 players was invited to the Swiss-tournament Ouza-sen. Six rounds was played, then a one game final between the two[..]

The German National Othello Championship 2022 will take place in Dortmund on July 30th and 31st in the offices of PING e.V. The Geran Championship is an open Othello tournament,[..]

We got the sad news that Mr. Bari Setiadi, the Chairman of Indonesia Othello Federation, passed away Wednesday July 13th in Penang, Malaysia. Mr. Setiadi suffered a brain haemorrhage,[..]

The 1st European Championship was finally held in Rome, Italy. Due to Corona, the EOC was postponed until now. 52 players joined to a very warm Rome. It was a very interesting[..]

The Ivorian Othello Federation is organizing the final of the National Othello Championship on August 06, 2022 at the Onyx Excellence Group in Yopougon. The three winners at the end of[..]

Amazing 35 players turned up to the Singapore Championship! That is a good number of player! Koh Bo Xiang won his 6th champion title! Final:  Koh Bo Xiang vs. Koh Bo Chao Alex[..]

VII PANAMERICANO DE OTHELLO 17th to 18th June, 2022   After 4 editions in 2010, 2017, 2018 and 2019, came the pandemia, and we had 2 virtual editions[..]

After two years of covid cancelled tournaments, the Israeli National Othello Championship is back! Congratulations to Micky on his first[..]

The 29th Korean Othello Championship was held on 28th May. Ten players turned up to the 29th Korean Championship. Oh Joung-Mok won the title for the 15th time. Three youth players[..]

All players who have played an Othello tournament, have a WOF player profile. To find your profile you search at your name at the WOF rating list page. There you can claim your player[..]

The 1st European Championship will be held in Rome, Italy, the 2nd to 3rd July, 2022. The EOC was planned to be played 2020, but was cancelled because of the Covid.  EOC[..]

Friends, we are sorry to inform you about the irreparable loss in the World Othello community. On March 3, 2022, Olexandr Babichev died defending his home in Chernihiv, Ukraine, during[..]

It is hereby announced that the WOF annual meeting will take place at the end of October 2022 in connection with WOC 2022 or as an online meeting. The Confederations' annual meetings[..]

Dear all WOF members! We know that you want to know how it will be with the World Othello Championship 2022. We are happy to say that we are working hard so we soon can send out[..]

Our friend Francesco Marconi passed away earlier today. He has left us much too early after suffering a severe brain stroke. Our thoughts and love goes to the Marconi family, and all our[..]

China won the WOTM final against Sweden with 20-12. It was many close games, but today China was the stronger team. It was two players who was unbeaten, Xun Chen and Oskar[..]

THE WOTM MATCHES THIS WEEKEND, 12th to 14th November! RESULTS & STANDINGS FOR QUARTERFINALS   QUARTER FINALS - NOVEMBER 12TH - 14TH   Match ID /[..]

THE WOTM MATCHES THIS WEEKEND, 29th - 31st October! RESULTS & STANDINGS FOR EACH Q16 GROUP YOU FIND HERE! SATURDAY 6th NOVEMBER 20 - 12 [..]

THE WOTM MATCHES THIS WEEKEND, 29th - 31st October! RESULTS & STANDINGS FOR EACH Q16 GROUP YOU FIND HERE! Friday 29th October 6 - 26   -  GMT - Iran vs.[..]

THE WOTM MATCHES THIS WEEKEND, 8TH AND 10th OCTOBER! RESULTS & STANDINGS FOR EACH Q16 GROUP YOU FIND HERE! SATURDAY 23RD OCTOBER 2021-10-23  12:00 GMT  CHINA VS[..]

The Studio Othello gives you discussions, analysis, and predictions for the group stages of the World Othello Team Masters 2021 with hosts Luke Plowman and Ivan Chan. See the Studio[..]

THE WOTM MATCHES THIS WEEKEND, 8TH AND 10th OCTOBER! RESULTS & STANDINGS FOR EACH Q16 GROUP YOU FIND HERE! SATURDAY 16TH OCTOBER 18 - 14  - Japan Othello[..]

THE WOTM MATCHES THIS WEEKEND, 8TH AND 10th OCTOBER! RESULTS & STANDINGS FOR EACH Q16 GROUP YOU FIND HERE! The first matches in the World Othello Team masters Top 16[..]

The following is the guidelines for the Q16 round of the World Othello Team Masters with respect to the introduction of cameras. We fully understand that this is a new[..]

After two years without being able to celebrate it, finally the Hong Kong Othello Championship has been hold this weekend. Despite the restrictions and limited capacity of the rooms, 16[..]

To all Othello enthusiasts We are now approaching the Q16 round of the World Othello Team Masters Tournament. The draw has been made and the matches will be scheduled soon. All very[..]

16 teams qualified from the WOTM Confederations qualification to the next level; the Qualification Top 16.  The 16 teams will be paired in four groups with four teams in each group.[..]

THE WOTM MATCHES THIS WEEKEND, 11TH AND 12th SEPTEMBER! RESULTS & STANDINGS FOR EACH GROUP YOU FIND HERE!   SUNDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER 2020-09-26  -  02:00 AM[..]

Sunday 19th September 02:30 AM GMT, the Japan Othello Youth Championship 2021 Final will be held. 64 players who have qualified by online tournaments meet up to play the final. The[..]

The 2nd October the next level of the World Othello Team Masters start. The top 16 teams, who will be divided in to four groups, will then be 8 teams to the Quarter final who starts in[..]

THE WOTM MATCHES THIS WEEKEND, 11TH AND 12th SEPTEMBER! RESULTS & STANDINGS FOR EACH GROUP YOU FIND HERE!   SUNDAY 19TH SEPTEMBER Taiwan Othello Association vs Viet[..]

THE WOTM MATCHES THIS WEEKEND, 11TH AND 12th SEPTEMBER! RESULTS & STANDINGS FOR EACH GROUP YOU FIND HERE! 2021-09-11 - 11:00 GMT -  Swedish Othello Federation vs. Russian[..]

THE WOTM MATCHES THIS WEEKEND, 27TH TO 29TH AUGUST. RESULTS & STANDINGS FOR EACH GROUP YOU FIND HERE!  Russia Othello Federation vs. Italy Othello Federation  * [..]

The Swedish Championship 2020 was cancelled. Normaly the Championship is held in June. After many changes, the championship was held the weekend 28th-29th August. It was 18 happy players[..]

This Saturday you are welcome to play the Mind Sports Olympiad Othello!  Saturday 28th August 2:30 GMT Tournament Format Players Per Table – 2 Rounds – 9 Platform[..]

THE WOTM MATCHES THIS WEEKEND, 27th TO 29th AUGUST. RESULTS & STANDINGS FOR EACH GROUP YOU FIND HERE! 2021-08-28  -  06:00 GMT   Mongolia Othello Federation[..]

THE WOTM MATCHES THIS WEEKEND, 20th TO 22nd AUGUST. RESULTS & STANDINGS FOR EACH GROUP YOU FIND HERE!   2021-08-20  -  Result: 2 -[..]

THE WOTM MATCHES THIS WEEKEND, 13TH TO 15TH AUGUST. RESULTS & STANDINGS FOR EACH GROUP YOU FIND HERE! 2012-08-13  -  Result: 15 -[..]

The teams who play this weekend, 6th to 8th August. Results and standings you find here!   2021-08-07  -  Result: 20 -[..]

The teams who play this weekend, 30th July to 1st August. Results and standings you find here!   Hong Kong vs. Iran   Results: 15 -[..]

Here you find the WOT Confederation qualifications groups! African Othello Confederation America Othello Confederation Asian Othello Confederation European Othello[..]

  13th June the 1st Studio Othello was broadcasted at YouTube and other social media. Studio Othello gave you the latest news from the Othello World. We also[..]

WOF policy on artificial assistance during online tournaments The lack of over the board tournaments that have been possible during the pandemic has accelerated the needs for the[..]

Do you want to get an WOF Online rating? If yes, attend to the WOF Online Othello tournaments at Vint.ee. Do get an Online rating you can attend to the WOF Othello Open Masters. Also[..]

The Japan Othello Federation organize the Japan Othello Youth Championship 2021. This year the qualification tournaments will be online.  Informations from the Youth tournament[..]

4th WOF International Open Othello Tournament Series Time 01.07.2021 - 31.06.2021   Description 4th International Othello Open Tournament Series in vint.ee is[..]

The 1st World Othello Team Masters will be held online in August. All World Othello Federation members national teams will be invited to attend this event! Almost 50 countries will[..]

Othello series 2 was played between the 1st and 31st of May. The tournament was played on vint.ee with the time format as Othello series 1, ie 5 minutes plus 2 seconds. The tournament had[..]

Junior-Danish Othello  Championship May 22, 2021 was a great success with nine talented participants. It was report in the newspaper Sydkysten and Nordvest Nyt. The[..]

Othello series 1 was played between the 1st and 31st of April. The tournament was played on Vint.ee with a time format of 5 minutes plus 2 seconds increment and had 126 participating[..]

The WOF Othello Video Challenge will begin the 10th of July, 2021! Create videos about Othello to compete for great prizes! Your videos will be shown on the World Othello YouTube[..]

We are deeply sorry to need to inform that the World Othello Championship 2021 will be cancelled. The WOC 2020 was also cancelled, so we hoped that it should be possible to organize the WOC[..]

2021 Othello Beijing Open (World Leisure Congress: China International Mind Games Challenge) Date: 17th Apr. 2021 Place: Beijing Pinggu Jinhaihu Exhibition Center See three games[..]

The extend of the pandemia in time, has once again forced us to hold the Pan American Championship in online format. We have had a very important call, gathering 90 players from 11[..]

We have noticed that it is a need of a good sites for Othello tournaments! Now we are happy to announce that we start up WOF Online Othello! online.worldothello.org! There you find our[..]

Dear 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[..]

World Othello Federation Annual Meeting 2020 7 November 2020   The Minutes 1. Opening of the Annual Meeting 2020   2. Election of the Annual Meeting[..]

The 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[..]

Alex 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[..]

Teacher 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[..]

W.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 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[..]

14 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 Amar[..]

The 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[..]

Why 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[..]

Othello 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[..]

First 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 (August 2020)   The American online Othello tournament coming in August, just a few weeks away, promises to become the biggest online[..]

The 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[..]

Othello 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,[..]

  Dear 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[..]

When 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[..]

Othello 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[..]

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Hereby 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[..]

Do 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[..]

Register 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[..]

In 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[..]

The 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,[..]

Updated 2020-04-06.  The World Othello Federation council recommend all W.O.F. members to follow all local authorities demands and[..]

WORLD 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[..]

News 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,[..]

The 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[..]

This 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[..]

We 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[..]

Piyanat 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[..]

Switzerland 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[..]

The 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.[..]

Takuji 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[..]

Othello 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[..]

The 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[..]

We 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[..]

This 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. 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[..]

Emmanuel 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[..]

The 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[..]

This 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[..]

Despite 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[..]

It 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[..]

It 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[..]

Congratulations 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[..]

It 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[..]

The following national championships have been played in 2018: Country Winner # Champion since Argentina Marcelo[..]

Available 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[..]

Piyanat 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[..]

What 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[..]

This 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[..]

It 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[..]

In 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[..]

The 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[..]

The 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[..]

The 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[..]

Niklas 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[..]

Disputed 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[..]

The 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[..]

It 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[..]

The 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[..]

Here 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[..]

A 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 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[..]

The 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[..]

Sandsborgs Open was a nice and exciting competition. 16 players participated; They came from Borås, Linköping. Gothenburg, Gävle and Stockholm. It was an exciting[..]

It 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[..]

Martin 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[..]

 The 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 2018 edition of the IDF1 tournament that took place on January 13th in Paris.    11 players made the trip for this first Parisian Othello[..]

Indian Othello Federation is pleased to announce the final game results of IOC 2017 as below: • Áshőķ Chőừdháŕý – Winner • Amar Roy[..]

Misa 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[..]

The 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[..]

World 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,[..]

October 14, 2017 the Russia Othello federation hosted an Othello tournament in St. Petersburg. The tournament was attended by players from Moscow, St. Petersburg and[..]

It 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[..]

When 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 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.[..]

Location: Kharkiv, Ukraine Date: May 20th ​Link: LiveOthello On May 20 the first Ukrainian Othello Championship was held in Kharkiv. The[..]