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Hello, I am an avid Othello player since 1981, when I was 16 years old.  My prime performance was 1996, 1998, 2000 World Champion.   I still play fairly well, and I enjoy the game greatly.

Recent part of my career as an Othello player is recorded on my blog:　Murakami Takeshi's Othello Diary

Lots of transcripts, photos, and videos, which may be of interest to you.  The blog is in Japanese but if you browse it on Google Chrome, you can choose your mother tongue and a rather accurate AI translator will show you the pages in the chosen language.  Quite amazing, really.

The photo on this profile page was taken at a tournament in Tokyo last year.  In the center is me; on the right is Kento Urano (current World Champion); and on the left is Takeshi Hasegawa, a son of late Goro Hasegawa (creator of Othello) and an expert player with 5th dan.

Below is a text (in English) published in 2000.  I wrote about the first half of my career as an Othello player: how I got hooked, how I improved my skills, how I reached the pinnacle, and how I lost to Logistello (an AI player) in 1997.  It's a real quest of a lifetime.  Enjoy.

Othello: Game of the Century