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It has nothing to do with lago or

Desdemona, and Shakespeare never

even heard of it. This Othello is a game,

and one of its greatest champs is Jewish.

Here, Othello master Joel Feinstein gives

tips on playing the game.

Joel Feinstein thinks several moves ahead.

Elizabeth Applebaum
- AppleTree Editor

Joel Feinstein, 34, was born in Cambridge, England, and now lives in Nottingham,
where he is a lecturer in pure mathematics at the University of Nottingham. He holds a
bachelor's degree, with honors, in mathematics from Cambridge University, and a
Ph.D. in pure mathematics from the University of Leeds.
Among his titles: winner of the Copenhagen International Tournament (1993); winner
of the British Championships (1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997); member of
three-person winning team, World Team Championships, Warsaw (1989), Barcelona
(1992), Tokyo (1996). In 1997, he placed fourth in the World Othello Champi-

onships.

ow did you get started playing Othello, and did it appeal to you from the start?
Do you remember your very first game?
I was first shown the game by a friend when I was about 13. I remember that
we played two games and he won both! The game was fun, but I didn't realize until
much later how interesting and abstract Othello strategy is. It was only when I started
writing computer Othello programs while I was at Cambridge University that I really

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became interested in playing.