More than a century ago a game called Reversi appeared in England. There's a dispute
about it's precise origin: on the one hand a mr. Lewis Waterman claimed to be the inventor, on the other a
John W. Mollet Esq. contested this claim on the grounds that Reversi was merely an adaption of his game
'Annexation'. Will the truth ever emerge? Who knows, and, for that matter, who cares? Certainly not the
Japanese Tsukuda Company who trademarked the name Othello for an ever so slight variation of the game
more than a century later and marketed it with great success.
MindSports uses the name Othello for online purposes and Reversi for the freeware version of the applet.
Despite the game's obvious strategical obscurity, we wouldn't want to infringe on anyone's copyright.
MacBeth © MindSports
Applet © Ed van Zon
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