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What about larger boards?

Public forum discussion.

#1 · lazyplayer

30 Nov 2016

Hi all, I've a question for reversi community...

Why nobody plays larger boards, like 19x19?

Would the game become more interesting and perhaps less suitable for brute force approaches like that used typically by computers?

#2 · Tasmanian Devil

30 Nov 2016

IMHO, a board larger than 10x10 makes for a rather dull ("grinding") game. Diagonal control is an interesting aspect of 8x8 endgame that almost disappears on larger boards.

#4 · CloD

16 Dec 2016

10x10, here on littlegolem, is already very fun

#5 · Richard Moxham

19 Dec 2016

Re lazyplayer, 2016-11-30.

I don't play Reversi, but just as a friend of the court...

There's no sense in even considering - in any game - what might make life tougher for a computer.

Because (a) it will happen anyway, and (b) it won't change anything of any importance when it does.