What is the board game played on a grid, and black and white counters shaped like giant smarties?

Question

Really simple game, really hard to master. Each player takes it in turns to place a black or white counter upon the intersections on a grid. Played in films like A Beautiful Mind, and Pi - Faith in Chaos. What is this game called, and how does on play?

Answer 1

Its Go

Answer 2

Yes, the game  you are talking about is Othello.

Answer 3

sounds like either backgammon or othello...both fun.

Answer 4

Go in Japan and most western countries.

Baduk in Korea.

Wéiqi in China.

Another movie sighting:

A game in progress can be  seen in Veronica's (Winona Ryder's) bedroom next to her desk in the movie "Heathers".

It would be easy to describe the rules for placing a stone.  However, the rules for scoring a completed game are less trivial.  It would be easier for you to just Google for "Go game" and check out one of those web sites.

Answer 5

The game is called Othello! It's a really fun game and really challenging! It's way better than checkers I can tell you that =p

Answer 6

checkers...i think.

go on www.google.com and type in play checkers.

Answer 7

He was playing Go.

Here is a link for the New York Times article with a picture of a Go game on a computer.  Referencing the movie "A Beautiful Mind" and John Nash.

   http://www.nytimes.com/ref/open/thisweek...

    The Academy Award-winning film A Beautiful Mind starring Russell Crowe as economist and Nobel laureate John Forbes Nash features a game of Go that Nash loses, even though he had the black stones and moved first.

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_game

    

A link to wikipedia and the game Go is above.  Is a bit different than Othello/Reversi.  Much larger game board and pieces are played ON the grid line intersects. Not in the squares made by them.

Answer 8

Othello  if i am correct

Answer 9

Definitely Go. That's the only one where black and white counters are placed on the intersections of a grid. Othello and checkers you put the pieces in the centre of the squares, backgammon and mancala aren't played on grids at all.

Answer 10

sounds to me like backgammon...........think i spelled it  right. couldnt tell u how to play though.

Answer 11

Othello! It's so fun. Similar to checkers- one player is black, on is white. Buy it and read the directions. Kids can play it.

Answer 12

It could be manacala (in some forms). Usually thats a wooden board though, played with marbles. Other than that, idk

Answer 13

It's Othello!  I just played it the other day.

Answer 14

backgammon