{"id":35088,"date":"2026-01-15T19:23:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35088"},"modified":"2026-01-15T19:23:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:23:26","slug":"othello-but-bigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35088","title":{"rendered":"Othello, But Bigger!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered a few days ago, while trying to do something else, that in Iango, ie., GNOME Othello\/Reversi, you can change the size of the board from the standard 8 by 8 to, well, whatever you want.<\/p>\n<p><code>iagno -s 12<\/code>, for instance, will generate a 12&#215;12 board.  So that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been playing as late.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"1000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot_20260114_115047.jpg\" alt=\"I&#039;m dominating this game from pretty much the start\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35083\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"1000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot_20260114_195311.jpg\" alt=\"Still dominating the board\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35084\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"1000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot_20260114_195340.jpg\" alt=\"White is down to a single piece\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35085\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And, the final board.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"1000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot_20260114_195510.jpg\" alt=\"The final board. Overwhelmingly black, but white holds a couple of blocks through the middle\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35086\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the late stages, I found myself in a position where I had no legal moves for three or four turns in a row.<\/p>\n<p>12 by 12 Othello, a nice little challenge.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s still room in my repertoire for the standard game, though.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"1000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot_20260114_220640.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of a standard game of Othello\/Reversi, showing me dominating the board, with White eliminated entirely.\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35087\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered a few days ago, while trying to do something else, that in Iango, ie., GNOME Othello\/Reversi, you can change the size of the board from the standard 8 by 8 to, well, whatever you want. iagno -s 12, for instance, will generate a 12&#215;12 board. So that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been playing as late.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35088\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Othello, But Bigger!&#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":[48],"tags":[5225,5128],"class_list":["post-35088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games","tag-gnome","tag-othello","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35088","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=35088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}