Author's blurb Othello is a two-player game played on an 8-by-8 grid. The game begins with four chips on the board - two black and two white. In alternating moves, the players place a chip on the board. User summary Othello implements the classic board game with standard rules. This version was written by Ed Wright and published as type-in source code in Creative Computing Vol. 3, No. 6, November/December 1977. The source code was listed in Fortran.