{"id":34601,"date":"2025-08-23T07:56:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T12:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34601"},"modified":"2025-08-23T08:03:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T13:03:52","slug":"the-car-crash-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34601","title":{"rendered":"The Car Crash Ending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This game of Othello ended with white making four, might&#8217;ve been five, straight turns, as I, black, had no legal moves at all.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025-08-22-202500_2560x1440_scrot.jpg\" alt=\"Final board of a game of Othello, with black dominating the board, but white taking most of the left two columns\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-34602\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had white on the run for most of the game, and white was often kept to 3 or 4 pieces total.  The game developed to the right hand side of the board, and I took first the lower right corner and then the upper right corner.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t recall exactly how it happened, but I got the lower left corner, white had three or four pieces, I could make one move to place a piece on the left hand column, and then white made move after move as I had no legal moves whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>It was a strange ending.  All I could do was watch it unfold and see where it landed.  I thought of it as &#8220;the car crash ending.&#8221;  It was out of my hands. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This game of Othello ended with white making four, might&#8217;ve been five, straight turns, as I, black, had no legal moves at all. I had white on the run for most of the game, and white was often kept to 3 or 4 pieces total. The game developed to the right hand side of the<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34601\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The Car Crash Ending&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[5128],"class_list":["post-34601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-othello","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}