othello

In other words, it's like the game of Othello - a minute to learn, a lifetime to master.

C is like the marketing slogan to Othello (reversi): A minute to learn, a lifetime to master.

I agree completely, as long as those Othello jerks don't come in here with their crappy attitudes.

I've written simple programs that beat me easily at games such as Othello or Freecell.

Like others have mentioned, Othello and Go can be fun.

There's even a plugin to play othello in the editor.

The old book _Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp_ contains a number of nontrivial programs (like an Othello player and a little symbolic math program).

Off the top of my head, if you're looking for deep two-player strategy with zero chance element, besides Go there's Othello (Reversi), Hive, Checkers, and Khet.

But my experience programming Java itself is limited to writing a client/server othello game just to explore, and I have no legacy Java systems to integrate with, so I'm useless on that score.

> If you go back, like, 400 years ago, it never would have occurred to anybody to be introspective Dunno, Shakespeare died 410 years ago and soliloquies on internal moral dilemmas and emotional states in Macbeth, Othello and Hamlet are a cornerstone of those plays.

Seriously, "Keystone Cops" is kind of like the "America's Got Talent" of its day - "Othello" it ain't.

"making the beast with two backs" or whatever in the beginning of Othello just struck my mind, and nearly all of Titus Andronicus is beyond decent.

"psychology comes into play" Actually, it does not, just like it does not come into play for Chess, or for Go, or for Othello.

Sure he wrote a few good plays - 'Hamlet', 'Othello', a few other tragedies of note.

Like Minesweeper crossed with Sudoku (and with perhaps a dash of Reversi/Othello for good measure).

There are only four betting rounds in Texas Hold'em, and so the game tree is fairly shallow compared to Othello, Chess, or Go.