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It's claimed that the game Othello has been solved: perfect play leads to a draw.

(via Stephen Brooks)

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@mathnews Skimmed the paper, basically "stronger-than-weakly-solved for a smaller grid but ideas are extendable to the original 8x8 grid"

Seems like it just needs some peer-review & more computational power.

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@mathnews Surprising! I'd have expected white to win.

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@mathnews It might just be a language issue, but the way the introduction is written makes me pretty sceptical about the result