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Brian Rose is a sixteen-time US Othello champion and the 2001 world champion.

Brian won his first US national title in 1981 and finished second at his first WOC held in Brussels that year. Brian would go on to win the US nationals a record 16 times and is still one of the very best players in the US today.

In the 1990s Brian moved to Japan and playing regular tournaments with the best in the world took his game to a new level. Brian had some very good tournament results in Japan, reaching the semi-finals of the All-Japan championships in 1997 and the final of the Meijin Challenger tournament in 1999.

Brian would return to a WOC final almost 20 years after his first final appearance at the 2000 WOC in Copenhagen but then lost to Takeshi Murakami. The following year at the 2001 WOC in New York, Brian was finally rewarded with his first world title defeating his fellow countryman Raphael Schreiber in the finals in two straight games.

Brian wrote a book about Othello strategy "Othello: A minute to learn, a lifetime to master" shortly after becoming world champion.

	World Othello Champion 2001, New York, USA World Othello Team Champion 1987, 1991, 1993, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004  US Nationals 1981, 1983, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996,                           2000, 2002, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023
	World Othello Championships 1981, 2000 World Othello Team Championship  2013, 2018 US Nationals 1986, 1990, 2004
	World Othello Championships 1983, 2004 World Othello Team Championship 1990, 1996, 2016 US Nationals 1987