othello is a game of pattern recognition,learning these patterns and tricks will
help you win many games 


will add images for them sometime...

exposed diagonal,dragon corner attack,landau,half landau,edge swindle, edge swindle corner exchange var,3 tempo corner sac,invincible x square,floating stoner,3 move weave,poison gift,floating x square,skim waiting move,bait for unpoison,3 gap corner attk,2 tempo edge bridge,poison parity,internal sweep,disc extraction for corner swindle,feed,stoner,corner sacrifice for discs,shield,old school edge tempo,big weaver,checkerboarding move,edge creep,floating x square tempo variation,medal sacrifice.

new applet.

in some examples the perfect move is not played, instead certain moves are played to help illustrate the particular trick or pattern.