Ben's Blog Posts
Ok, so I told Goran I was going to post old Othello stuff I wrote... now I have to actually do something. Or else I would be BAD.
So let's start with this, a classic- this is stuff from my "O...
It's so official, it's written in BINARY- I'm going to Stockholm. I arrive into Arlanda airport on Oct. 22, and leave for London Nov.10, flying into and out of London's Heathrow airport. I hope the stewardesses are as cute as last time.
All you mad, ...
It's been confirmed to me by two people that the French team will be Emmanuel Caspard, Emmanuel Lazard, and Stephane Nicolet. Change of two players from last year, and not at all weaker. The few times I have played long games online with Nicolet it has ...
I was re-reading a chat I had with Goran, in which I had said I wanted to rant about how players these days don't have style any more, style possessed by players back in the olden days. Back in the day, not so long ago really, players had panache and fl...
Usually it is the newest WOC players that underperform the most, and I have some advice for you guys and gals.
1. At a minumum, you are going to be playing 13 games, against very stiff competition. Don't overdo the first games and leave yourself exha...
Phew, I'm finally home. I am pretty busy sorting out my life now that I've returned, but soon I
will start posting in depth about my trip and other Othelloana. In the meantime, let's start with material from 2002- here is the interview Eddie Williams ...
I'm choosing to sacrifice organization for quantity; I'll just post comments as I remember or think of various things, and I figure everything will get said, ultimately. I will number the comments so there is a reference of some kind...
#1 It pays to...
#7 In my opinion, a major difference between Suekuni and myself this time around was that he was reactive, while I was more active.
This showed up in many places. The first time Suekuni's reactivity showed up was at the victory dinner last year, wh...
I have arbitrarily moved Thanksgiving back a few days.
Othello things I am thankful for-
#1 Othello doesn't have all the politics and dysfunction of chess. Othello has regular world championships that everyone supports, and which run smoothly from ...
I thought there was some info in here, plus some nice perspectives, etc. At the end you can see that the very strong tournament is likely to happen, which to me only reinforces Goran's comments that there ought to be some wild cards in the WOC. It shoul...
#x The good Doctor (Imre Leader, of course), said he would soon start playing Othello on Kurnik.
#x+1 He and I had a lot of fun 5 minute games over the board, during my visit to Cambridge. We first played games on the small table in the center of the ...
A while back I said I would upload some games. I tried several times to remember how to upload the games on www.othello.dk but couldn't find it. It's probably very obvious, but today I decided to upload them in a way I was sure would work. So, I emaile...
2 minute timer. I had a very rocky start... but playing him was awesome :) In several of the games I felt like I had no chance, or was about to have zero chance. I don't often have that feeling.
I hope I soon get the chance to be mauled again :D (S...
I'm sure everyone already knows about the tsunami disaster by now. The morning after Christmas I got up early and that was the first thing I read online. First I was stunned at the size of the earthquake, and then I was surprised at how few casualties t...
I'm looking for someone who's willing to host a bunch of WOC and Othello player related pictures- pictures Matthias Berg and Liya Ye took at the WOC, and pictures I took in Sweden. It's about 1gb altogether. Could be hosting the pics on webpages, or ho...
Especially when that fool is me :( That darn Mr. T really did a number on me the last time we played. 2 wins, 2 draws, and 7 losses is not a session record that I want.
The good news is tha...
Takeshi Murakami thought that I ought to write about my WOC experiences, for those who were interested. He also recommended it as a good way to store up memories about the WOC. So, alright :)
These will be somewhat scattered, but hopefully cogent. M...
I came up with that title BEFORE I played Kunihiko Tanida; perhaps not a good idea. First I played Tamenori, then I played Murakami, then Murakami told me to play Tanida (nicknamed Ifalpa). He also warned me that Tanida was surprisingly good, but I coul...
Here is an email Takeshi sent out to four of us (though I believe Andreas will not be able to make it), containing a lot of information. I'm posting it in case someone else would be interested in going to Japan; or just for those who like to follow stuff...
I know Goran has written a bit about this and probably others as well, but I thought I had some possible contributions to make. I'm only going to write about etiquette from my perspective, maybe you will or won't agree.
1. I don't like being disturbe...
So now I have mentioned three items of etiquette mainly aimed at others (though I hope they benefit everyone, if any change at all occurs). But perhaps more important is knowing how to take control of one's own personal experience, which for me includes ...
I finished a non-Othello article that I have been working on for a while. It's an article about intellectual property which I posted at www.strategicviewpoints.com. I am provisionally more proud of it than of any other endeavor I have ever completed in ...
My little brother is probably going to be playing Othello online occasionally. He's 12, his name is Chris Hurst. I told him about Kurnik and VOG, he told me he will be using the nickname "flameblower". If you see him, please be nice and helpful with hi...
I've had a bunch of frustrating experiences recently, and while only some of them are related to Othello, they brought up some things I've been meaning to say in the area of Othello.
One of them is that people are still frequently asking me to teach th...
My long-time friend Alex Wong (aka dai_6_jai, plumber_soldier), is going to propose marriage to his girlfriend Carol tonight. So if you would send some courageous, lucky vibes his way, I bet he would like that :).
Alex is a guy that I've known since n...
After downloading several kinds of file-sharing programs and asking a lot of different people, the WOC 2004 pics now have a home online. Henry Aspenryd (aka wicked_troll) is hosting them her...
Twice today I have gotten comments from people which indicate that they don't know how to write comments directly to the blog. It's qute simple- at the end of each post is a link which says "Comments(#)" (the # being the number of comments already made)....
I have invited a lot of new people to post here, setting up accounts for them. Perhaps "new" is not the right way to put it, they are all well-known Othello veterans. I think all of them will post nice material, if they ever choose to, so I am very appr...
For the benefit of the new posters, and possibly others as well, I'm going to explain a few features here.
With the help of Jon Jonasson, Ed set up a nice page which generates the code behind the game applets, which I believe could actually be used on ...
The Meijin will be the most difficult tournament to win that I have played in in a long time. It won't be the most challenging- the WOC with its three grueling days takes that cake- but because it is only 7 rounds, and there will be 160 players, and the ...
After about 23 hours of traveling, I finally got to meet up with Hajime Watanabe. That is the longest stretch of traveling I have ever done. I had ended up only getting about 3 hours of sleep before, too, so I was really proud I did not screw anything u...
That is the acronym for the `Shinagawa Open Seaside`. It was apropos, let me tell you.
It was a six round tournament, no semifinal or finals, Brightwell Quotient tiebreak used. Six of us tied for first on wins with 5 wins out of 6; I lost to Nakajima w...
This is an email exchange I had with Lee Edwards. Does anyone else have any info or experience concerning this subject?
Ben, Have you ever tried playing without sight of the board or do you know any other strong players who have?
Have you ever g...
www.othello.org has a poll about who will win the Shinagawa Expert tournament. The order of players in the poll is Seeley, Murakami, Suekuni, Tamenori, Nakajima, Sakaguchi, Goto, Tominaga, and Other (in case someone cannot attend, I will get to name the ...
Tamaki Miyaoka is the new Meijin. He beat Makoto Suekuni in the finals game, Makoto being the only player with 7 wins in the prelims, and Miyaoka having one more disk than Nakajima among those players with 6 wins. I had 8 discs less than Miyaoka, thus I...
At the Meijin, after it ended one of the officials publicly announced that Brazil was a possible (or likely) location for the WOC this year. Maybe Matthias could tell us what he knows :) Two weeks ago he told me a decision was likely within the week, or...
I had a terrible start; after winning my first game against Sakaguchi 11-53 (I was white) (which had the exact same first 36 moves as my game with Ryoichi Hoshi yesterday, leading into a +20 or so position), I then lost my next two games; first to Kenta T...
I should have mentioned to everyone that there was no internet capability at the hotel at which the Azabu Camp was being held, but now we`re back in the connected world. Eddie and Fabrice are currently staying with the Takedas in anticipation of the Yama...
I believe Eddie and Fabrice and I managed to save every game we could. I saved my games onto Eddie`s laptop, and eventually I am sure that all of our games can make it into Thor and whatnot. Eddie can send my games to othersirevello@yahoo.com any time h...
Spring cleaning is what happened to my body for the past six days. At one point or another, these are all the symptoms I had- fever, chills, coughing, coughing up blood, tons of mucus, sinus pressure, limited neck mobility, bloody nose, throwing up, very...
I finally got all my Japan pics uploaded, and I luckily met reverse_ekis online, who was willing to host the pictures. My pictures from Japan can be found here- http://www.ekis.ma.cx/~ben/
Sike complimented me on having so many scenery photos, and poi...
I wrote this tutorial first on www.reversi.se. I thought it would be good to post it here, since some new people would encounter it this way. At the time I had not considered using Babelfish, but now I know about it, and putting in addresses into Babelf...
Here is a nice article about a college which is using a chess GM to teach teachers strategies for better thinking and problem solving- http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/12/education/12teach.html?8hpib
Free registration is required to view the article (you...
What Mr. T told me right after the Shinagawa Experts tournament had finished-
Tamenori (excited and pointing at me): I want to play you online. I will be waiting for you! YEAH!!
A few nights ago, the first time we had met in almost a month-
Tame...
I emailed a picture to othersirevello@yahoo.com (pw=othellogateway) which I thought was really cool. It was taken at the Ottignies Christmas tournament in Belgium.
This is about the central figure in my Japan experience- Takeshi Murakami.
Of all the people I met in Japan, Takeshi impressed me the most. And I met a LOT of impressive people in Japan. I knew before I ever met him that I would like him quite a bi...
I'll tell you what it means to me...
I'm not talking about respect that comes my way, this is about my experiences with respecting and disrespecting players within an Othello context.
This was a huge issue that came up for me while I was in Japan;...
I just got off the phone with Jonathan Becker of Anjar, and of course I had to ask him if he had any news about the location of this year's WOC. From what he said, it sounded like there was a good chance that everything would be confirmed within the next...
"Being defeated is often a temporary condition, giving up is what makes it permanent."
This is a copy of an article I wrote which was published in early 2004 in Othello Quarterly and the Scandinavian Othello magazine (whose name I seem to have forgotten). It's basically a travel chronologue of some of my experiences during the trip. I tho...
This is a chat I had with Brian Rose about a week and a half before the 2004 WOC, on VOG, in which we tried to strategize for the WOC as best we could. Brian allowed me to publish this, and I thought people might enjoy reading this bit of inside baseball...
I wanted to add some notes about some stuff that was said in the conversation between Brian and myself. One person thought it wasn't nice of me to post a conversation which, for example, showed that I said I wasn't afraid of Roberto Sperandio, one of the...
I just did a quick check on kurnik.org and saw that I have a -3 streak going and Tamenori has a -4 streak. It's as good a case as any for how anyone can have an off day, or that even the best can be quite beatable (at least in Othello). It seems that in...
An email exhange.
Hi Ben~:
Thanks for your advice telling me how to learn othello.And those othello sites are very helpful for me:)
But due to network reason,I could neither play in kurnik nor VOG and soon,even in our own sites :( ,and pri...
M:
hi,
because you mentioned a japanese kid which i didnt know about and you mentioned noone reads your blog
messages, i went to your blog. actually i've been reading your blog posts and most of the other posts for a long time and lately i check the b...
Here is an article I wrote for OQ a year or two ago. I think the advice in it is useful in general, not just in Othello. I hope it is useful for you, and that you enjoy it.
I was recently asked a great question on Yahoo Japan, from a strong player th...
For those of you that don't subscribe to any mailing lists, I am pasting this WOC 2005 announcement email I sent to the NAOthelloTourneys Yahoo Group.
Hello all,
My good friend Benkt Steentoft has just announced that the 2005 WOC will be in Reykjavi...
As most of you know, Tamenori won the All-Japan this past weekend, his 7th win of that tournament in his career. I'm not too surprised he won, he was in the best form I have ever seen him in, when we played a couple of days before the tournament. I thin...
Takeshi Murakami emailed me to tell me about his new blog (it's in Japanese, of course), and I thought I would pass along the info. The site is http://murakamita.blogtribe.org/ Try using an online translator to read it, if you can't read Japanese ^^.
...
Hello all,
I thought I would paste the recent conversation on the British mailing list about the new setup at the WOC this year which will allow every country to send up to three women in addition to their regular team.
The extra female players will p...
A few people have been asking me how I feel about the 2005 WOC, performance-wise, and right now the answer is "not good". For example, assuming the Japanese A team is Tamenori, Miyaoka, and Suekuni, there is a good chance that right now they would all ou...
I arrive in Iceland the morning of Nov. 6, and leave a little after 17:00 on Nov.13, for those who are interested. My accommodation plans are a bit unclear at the moment.
Since I am back in school and also working, I don't have as much time for the tr...
Maybe this is below the dignity of a world champion or something, but here is my ranking of predictions for the top half of the WOC field. I added comments next to some of the players. Some people should be on this list, but since I don't know them, I c...
The problem: players who frequently get parity as black, but still lose.
With people that have this problem, it usually seems that they are too eager to play x-squares, and too eager to edge feed. Sometimes they are edge creepers with a propensity f...
Bad news I´m afraid...
Yohanes Chitra made it to Keflavik airport in Iceland this morning, after having been delayed for an entire day already, but was then stopped in customs. Apparently he has a non-standard passport, a "fugitive" passport, which m...
Looking at this group again, I distinctly note how close in skill so many of the players seem to be. There is a big pack right behind Tamenori and me, and it´s very tightly grouped.
In groups of four, in alphabetical order within each group, here a...
Erez Druk recently had a birthday, and asked me to teach him some stuff. For a while now I've always been saying "no" to these requests, but this time I reconsidered, because Erez was being so damn enthusiastic and persistent. I wish it didn't work, but...
I would like to point out that the two posts Jacky published have probably gotten more comments than all of my posts have, put together. The same could be said about the comments, or lack thereof, for Randy and Ed. I can tell you right now that the reas...
I want to say I'm pretty heartened by some of the nice things people have said to me, both privately and publicly. Wasn't really expecting it :) We all need some encouragement now and then, and what you've said tops my holiday spirit right up.
I wo...
Thierry and Kim's well-written comments reminds me- if anyone wants an account on Othellogateway, to put up any kind of Othello related posts (or copies of Othello stuff you've written before), just email me the username and password you would like and I ...
The Hong Kong Othello Association graciously invited Makoto Suekuni to visit Hong Kong and play in a special Othello tournament, and he in turn accepted. I don't believe they subsidized his trip in any way, so it was also quite gracious of Makoto to make ...
I was writing a reply comment to Thierry's post here, but it was getting too long so I decided to make a few posts out of it. This is the first part.
b3 is the kind of move that u...
I was writing a reply comment to Thierry's post here, but it was getting too long so I decided to make a few posts out of it. This is the second part.
Now, time to play devil's advo...
I was writing a reply comment to Thierry's post here, but it was getting too long so I decided to make a few posts out of it. This is the third and final post.
Now, for some real cr...
There was a period early on when I went through almost every winning game played by Tim Krzywonos, Tamenori, Suekuni, and Murakami, in their best periods. I did this more than once, actually, and each time I had the same goal- to understand the thinking ...
(There will also be an Othello Camp in August or September I believe, but I guess the details for it have not yet been determined.)
Hello Ben,
Here are the details about the Othello Camp and the Meijin. I would be grateful if you could post it on O...
Even in the last WOC, I was still getting questions about why I changed my name from Ben Hurst to Ben Seeley. I thought I would give a comprehensive explanation, once and for all.
Ben Seeley wrote:
So,
I have been wond...
(Edit - Randy 1/9/2006: Reformatted so that it was easier to read (ie not multi-lined chat))
Ben: this is part of why Othello is so great... it's completely meritocratic
Ben: in the beginning, when I was not yet very good, I was extremely keen to tell p...
Ben: did you see I got the kurnik ratings record again?
Jacky: hm.. let me see now
Ben: no longer exists :)
Jacky: 2356
Ben: but briefly I had a 2432 there
Jacky: wow
Ben: beat Tamenori's record of 2428
Jacky: you 2 are monsters
Jacky: I t...
This was a long teaching session chat we had a couple of weeks ago. The transcripts and moves should all be there so you can follow along using a program. Some parts may be confusing, but this is provided on a "reader's value" basis; i.e., the reader wil...
Ed had what I thought is a very strong idea to improve the evaluators of Othello computer programs, and with his permission I am sharing it with you. The idea is this: most pattern-based evals are calculated with three possible states for each square in e...
Hi Erwin,
Thanks for your nice email to me, especially since you asked
interesting questions :)
> Hi ben,
>
> I love to read your blogs posts on othello gateway :). All your tactics and analyses, but have you analysed 10x10 games? On www.littlego...
Tim Wilson has written a Word document for Othello, which has a lot of diagrams, with one for each concept he is commenting. It's about 4,000 words long, and the diagrams are Wzebra screenshots. I'm sure some people would find it interesting; if you feel ...
Hi Erwin,
> Hi ben,
>
> Yesterday on kurnik your dropped a word that cought my mind. During a game you played against nowane (yorick), you said he played like "old-school" style. Later that day it came up in me and i thought about it. That word says ...
As you can see from the message below, which was sent to tbe British Othello mailing list, it's a fairly open-ended request. If you have any flavorful, entertaining stories, you can share them with Michael ( blue_manta AT yahoo dot com ) and they may end ...
Hello friend or kin (or both),
I have compiled some of my favorite pictures for your potential viewing pleasure, and you may download them here- http://s5.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=30FD50IPMJ3OV01MK0D0J148DY
If you are reading this after the link has ...
Here is an email Fabrice di Meglio sent me on March 28, but which I didn't see.
Hello Ben,
Here are the result from the Meijin 2006 communicated to me by Yukiko
(news published also on reversi.se):
Result (127 players):
1.Tetsuya Nakajima
...
Some people in the Othello community were aware of my father- Lynn Hurst- and his poor health. He had metastatic melanoma, also known as skin cancer. But I know most of my acquaintances were not aware of this. This past week he passed away, at approximate...
I thought this was worth sharing.
"Here it comes ! The FFO's annual international summer camp in its 14th edition (from the 16th to the 24th of July 2006) !
Great fun and great learning coming up at the othellistic place you just can't miss this su...
On the talkchess.com forum, I posted my main ideas on making a strong chess program. Some of the ideas may also be useful in Othello programs. If you are interested, the site address is http://216.25.93.108/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1779 And if you want to p...
Hi Ben,
In case you haven't heard, I am moving back to Japan. I will be leaving in a couple of weeks, but the rest of my family will stay in the US until the end of the school year.
By the way, I have changed games again....last year was Scrabble...
A while back, Ed was pointing me towards Go websites with puzzles, and you could also rate the puzzles, and stuff like this. He was interested in possibly doing something like that somewhere on this site. But, knowing the kinds of things he can't do now b...
[Please note that there are three new posts today.]
[This particular post was published in the Scandic Othello mag a couple of years ago or so.]
Opening strategy, different approaches
This article is about preparing openings for tournaments. The r...
Just to make sure people see this information Henry provided in his comment (I missed it myself), Henry has made a working program for adding, reading, uploading, and downloading comments for Othello positions. It can be downloaded from http://www.aspenry...
I talked with Takeshi Murakami recently, and learned some details about how it will all go down over there. Of course Nakajima is already qualified for the team, having won the Meijin in March. Next will be the All-Japan championships, which will be on Ju...
> Hi Ben,
> It's now a couple of months ago when you answered my e-mail. I am still really thankfull for that, it helped me see the game diffrent.
> But now i am struggling with some of the explanation in your text. In your answer you talk about "sh...
It took me years to learn this, but I did finally learn about a limitation of blitz I had never seen before. This is the problem of games being limited by the instinctual fear of complexity that most people have. You see, in blitz games, people generally ...
I want to see a larger version of this picture of Kashiwabara
You da man, Takuji. :)
I spoke with Makoto Suekuni, and he said he will attend, if the Singapore Othello Committee allows him to. But he moved there earlier in July, so perhaps it is an iffy case.
Hi Ben
Some info about All Japan. It would be nice if you could put it
on...
(Update: Katie's comment corrects my false assumption that Mr. Koide was referring to Hong Kong.)
This is the reply to Katie Wu's email to Megahouse, in which she asked them about the registration deadlines for the WOC.
Dear Katie,
1) Originall...
I recently talked with Takeshi Murakami, and got some more information about the upcoming Japanese qualifying tournament, which will be held on the last weekend of August. It will be a one-day tournament, with 7 rounds swiss, and a one game semifinal and ...
Hi David,
>I have to learn how to play Othello before I get to old age :)
Well, there is that chess player, Viktor Korchnoi, who is still one of the 100 best chess players in the world at age 75. He did become a top chess player as a younger man, bu...
Here is the reply from an email which was sent to Mr. Onizawa, the head of the Mito Othello Association, in which I suggested the possibility of organizing it so Othello players in Mito might host some foreign players. Read it for yourself, and if you wou...
Here is Takeshi Murakami's excellent informational email, as always. I did my best to encourage Tamenori to try one last time to qualify for this world championship even after he said he wouldn't, and I guess I was right to do so :).
Hello Ben
Ouza...
Dear Othello representatives to WOC 2006,
We are pleased to announce an Othello event between WOC Othello players and Mito citizens to be held on the next day of WOC, OCT.9, 2006. To encourage cultural exchanges, we would like you to teach Othello to M...
Someone asked me if I would repeat predictions for the final WOC rankings, like I did last year. I think he asked because he significantly outperformed my prediction for him last year, but that's beside the point :). I said at first that I didn't think I ...
Someone asked me if I would repeat predictions for the final WOC rankings, like I did last year. I think he asked because he significantly outperformed my prediction for him last year, but that's beside the point :). I said at first that I didn't think I ...
Here is what I came to believe a few days ago, regarding something I had never thought of before, though it seemed crystal clear once I thought about it: the Swiss pairings methodology used in the WOC, and many other tournaments in Othello and other games...
Hi.
At first you maybe want to know who I am: My name is Denis and I'm from Germany.
In my holidays at the baltic sea I used the time to read through so nearly all blog posts at othello gateway I previously mirrored. Since most of it was of great in...
They posted some very nice pictures here. :)
I was curious about a different white line in the endgame Ed posted below, and it turned out to be one of the most phenomenal endgame sequences I've seen recently. Here it is- black's moves are all correct, white makes some mistakes. See if you can guess ...
Ben: I spent over an hour on a shallow endgame, just now
Amy: lol wha?
Ben: on a variation of othello that is really mind-boggling
Amy: hmm what variation?
Ben: I came up with it on my own, but it might be the variation called "wraparound" on the ...
If I've posted this or something similar before, please let me know :).
Ed: I have been listenign to people a lot over the years
Ed: I'm working on mutual plausibility
Ed: it's a simple idea that I have been trying to apply.. even back when I first ...
Hey Ben :)
I was playing against ntest 12ply again, I made only one mistake in the whole game. It turned a +6 win into a draw.
Here is the line that leads up to my mistake: F5 D6 C3 D3 C4 F4 F6 B4 F3 E6 E3 G5 G6 E7 H6 C2 C5 D2 F7 E2 F2 G4 G3
F1 C6 ...
What do you think the theoretical score of the opening configuration below is? Black to move. I haven't solved it from here, of course. But I'm curious about what you think. Without using a program, put your guess in the comments, please :). I'll give my ...
Hello Ben
I would be grateful if you could post the following information
on the Othello Blog. Thank you.
Takeshi
Hello players,
Meijin, one of three major tournaments in Japan, will be held at
the end of March, followed by Azabu Othello Ca...
For fun, I have created a set of novel opening configurations. For example, parallel configuration- instead of white, black, black, white, the configuration is white, white, black, black. I have made them available through the Yahoo email account othersir...
This New York Times article, since it is talking about neurological factors and practi...
[From Benkt Steentoft]
Dear Othello friends!
Its a pleasure to again invite you all to Stockholm and Stockholm Othello International. This year the tournament is hold June 2-3. More information about SOI and the regular SOI barberque is coming next...
I have decided to offer to teach Othello strategy to anyone who is interested. The price is $25/hour for one person, or $15/hour for two or more people. I won the 2003 and 2004 World Othello Championships, and former students of mine have placed in the se...
1. Tomohiro Ono nickname = cyouyowa
2. Yoshihiro Hosino
3. Kazuhiro Sakaguchi
4. Takeshi Murakami
5. Brian Rose
6. Keita Omori
Hideshi Tamenori was unable to attend because of a typhoon. He lives far away from Tokyo, where the tournament was h...
From the final team qualification tournament in Japan:
Tetsuya Nakajima won, with Kazuhiro Sakaguchi placing 2nd, Kenta Tominaga third (all had one loss apiece), Takeshi Murakami 8th, Hideshi Tamenori 9th, Kunihiko Tanida 10th, and Brian Rose 14th (wit...
In the interest of spreading the news far and wide, so that nobody thinks I entered the WOC as a surprise player, and so that anyone who is interested can see how it happened, here is what David Parsons (president of the USOA), wrote to the NAOthelloTourn...
I plan to be staying at the Hotel Stanley (the tournament hotel) for my entire trip- that's Monday evening through the next early Tuesday morning :). Just putting that out there in case anyone wants to contact me. I will try to let the front desk know tha...
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