What's the name of this game?

LethalWolfe

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It was played towards the begining of "A Beautiful Mind" between John Nash and his "friend" (they were friends, but comptetive and he gave Nash a teaching job again later).

The game is played on a checkered board w/black and white discs. The goal is to turn all of the discs on the game board to your color. And you make the dics turn to your color by "trapping" you opponent's pieces between yours. For example, if a row on the board looked like this:

White, Black, Black

And I placed a white disc at the end:

White, Black, Black, White

I would "win" the two black discs making the row:

White, White, White, White

I've played this game a couple of times but I can never remember what it's called. Any help?

Lethal
 

Evadman

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backgammon? (sp?)

<edit>
Nevermind, Othello is correct. What was I thinking.
 

Desturel

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Igo is nothing like Othello. Go is about board domination by controlling space. Othello is about board domination through color majority. Othello doesn't end until the board is full. Go can end at anytime once the other player resigns that he cannot reclaim the lost space.

Also Igo is a MUCH harder game.
 

diskop

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I'm sure it's Go.
I used to be really good at it. It's one of the few games right now that computers are no good at.

The game that you described is Othello, played on a 8x8 or 10x10 board, something of that size. Go is on a 50x50 board or something else huge. I cant' remember the exact figures right now.
 

tokamak

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i have not seen the movie, but the game you are describing is not Go. The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata is a great book, btw, just got done reading it...:D

<edit> a Go board is 19x19 </edit>
 

diskop

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Originally posted by: tokamak
i have not seen the movie, but the game you are describing is not Go. The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata is a great book, btw, just got done reading it...:D

<edit> a Go board is 19x19 </edit>

Ah you are right. 19x19, not 50x50 as I said :) Probably thought it was that big because I was so small when I played it.