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Othello Quiz 2010

Posted By: higonefive
Date: Tuesday, 12 October 2010, at 6:24 p.m.

In Response To: Othello Quiz 2010 (Timothy Chow)

Bill Robertie wrote (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/138/backgammon/problem-week-77-solution-886233/):

Then I met Alex.

Alex was probably in his mid-70s when I met him. His location and date of birth were a little hazy, but according to his stories he’d bounced around the world a lot, spending most of his time in the Middle East and Eastern Europe.

The Levante: Levant was originally applied to the "Mediterranean lands east of Italy", from the Middle French word levant meaning "the Orient". Historically, the "trade on the Levant" between Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire was of great economic importance. An imprecise term, Levant refers to an area of cultural habitation rather than to a specific geographic region, and its meaning shifts according to historical and cultural reference and preference (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levant). Years ago, Eric Ambler wrote "The Levanter".

The bots are all levanters. Look at #4.

Thank you. Misread the 4. Played the 6 right. But what do you think about the explanations. Useful or somehowe arbitrary?

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