There is a lot of good background on Othello like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Othello https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Othello And especially

There is a lot of good background on Othello like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Othello https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Othello And especially: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1980-07/page/n57/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1980-07/page/n57/m... That Byte article is about implementing practical heuristics to create a human like player as opposed to completely exhaustive play which was most definitely impossible on early 80s machines. I happened to implement a version myself at https://luduxia.com/reversi/ https://luduxia.com/reversi/